Bruno Knittel

Bruno Knittel (born July 16, 1918 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † March 1977 ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Bruno Knittel came from a well-known Freiburg family of sculptors. His father Hugo Knittel was also a sculptor, as was his father Gustav Adolf Knittel and his grandfather Josef Alois Knittel . Bruno's older brother Wolfgang became a painter and graphic artist. Bruno Knittel first learned from his father. During the Second World War he was taken prisoner of war , from which he returned in 1946. Until 1949 he studied with Otto Baum at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart and traveled to Paris, Rome and Florence. He had an exhibition in Baden-Baden and in 1950 he settled in Freiburg as a freelance sculptor.

He died in March 1977. His son Markus (born October 10, 1965) learned his father's craft with Michael Storr in Freiburg, then attended the master's school and opened a studio in Opfingen in 1998 .

Works

Fountain on the Franziskanerplatz in Neuenburg am Rhein

In contrast to his ancestors, Bruno worked abstracting up to total abstraction. His works in his hometown Freiburg include:

• Main post office: bronze eagle on the facade (1959)
• Lortzing school: fountain with two sea lions made of polished silver slate
• Hansjakob-Realschule: Basalt lava relief at the gym (1963)
• Catholic Academy: Relief made of natural stone (1966)
• Parish church St. Georg : celebration altar
• Konviktkirche : draft for the choir
• Herz-Jesu-Kirche : celebration altar (1969)

There are other Knittel works outside of Freiburg:

• Bad Säckingen : cast aluminum doors at the district court
• Bermersbach : Interior of the Church of St. Anthony of Padua (1969)
• Bräunlingen : Altar, ambo, sediles in the parish church of Our Lady
• Hammereisenbach ( Vöhrenbach ): Altar and ambo in the parish church of St. Johann (1974/75)
• Lenzkirch : Altar, tabernacle stele , ambo and sediles in the Church of St. Nikolaus (1975)
• Lörrach : Altar made of travertine , tabernacle stele, ambo and bronze cross above the altar in the Church of St. Bonifatius

• Neuenburg am Rhein : Fountain on Franziskanerplatz (1974)
• Sunthausen : Altar design of the Church of St. Mauritius (1974/75)

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  Bronze eagle on the facade of the post office in Eisenbahnstrasse Freiburg

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  Hansjakob-Realschule: Basalt lava relief on the gym

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  Catholic Academy Freiburg: Relief made of natural stone

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  High altar of the parish church of St. Georg, in front of it the celebration altar by Bruno Knittel

literature

• Michael Klant: The Knittel family of artists. In: Sculpture in Freiburg. 19th century art in public spaces. Freiburg 2000, ISBN 3-922675-77-8 , p. 180.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} Hans Vollmer: General Lexicon of the Fine Artists of the 20th Century. Volume 6: Supplements. 1962.
2. ^ ^{A b} Fritz R. Barran: Art in architecture today. Julius Hoffmann, Stuttgart 1964, p. 162.
3. ^ Pastoral care unit Freiburg-Stühlinger: Parish Church of the Heart of Jesus - The redesign of the choir and the side altars; Second pulpit (1952–1969) ( Memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ). Accessed May 23, 2010.
4. ^ Fritz R. Barran: Art in architecture today. Julius Hoffmann, Stuttgart 1964, p. 88.
5. ^ Antonius Bermersbach ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). Accessed March 17, 2017.
6. ^ ^{A b c} Richard Bellm: Old churches for the renewed liturgy. In: Das Münster, magazine for Christian art and art history. Schnell & Steiner, 29th year, Munich / Zurich 1976, ISSN  0027-299X .
7. ↑ Pastoral care unit in the Eastern Black Forest: Parish Church of St. Nikolaus . Accessed May 23, 2010.
8. ^ Otto Wittmann et al., City of Lörrach (ed.): Lörrach: Landscape - History - Culture. Verlag Stadt Lörrach, Lörrach 1983, ISBN 3-9800841-0-8 , p. 629.
9. ^ City of Neuchâtel: Fountain on Franziskanerplatz . Accessed May 23, 2010.

Web links

Commons : Bruno Knittel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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