Bruno Krell

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Bruno Krell (born January 27, 1903 in Pirna , † March 20, 1976 in Essen - Frohnhausen ) was a German sculptor .

Live and act

Coal carrier from 1958 with weather-related damage in the Grugapark

Bruno Krell was the son of a factory director who came to Essen with his parents in 1915. There he attended grammar school after elementary school up to lower secondary school . He went on to train as a sculptor.

Between 1920 and 1921 Krell attended the arts and crafts school, from which the Folkwang University of the Arts emerged in 1927 . His professors Joseph Enseling and Josef Urbach were there. A period of activity as a sculptor followed. From 1931 until his death, Krell was a freelance artist in Essen. As a paramedic, he participated in the Second World War between 1939 and 1945. He was taken prisoner by the French, from which he returned in 1946.

Krell became a member of the Ruhrländischer Künstlerbund Essen (RKB) founded in 1949 .

Krell exhibited his works at exhibitions in Aachen, Düsseldorf, Duisburg, Essen, Solingen, Witten and Wuppertal. They were bought by museums, public corporations and private collectors. Among other things, the limestone coal bearer from 1958 (in Grugapark ), the dancing bears in Essen-Holsterhausen and the relief of Cain and Abel in the Pax-Christi Church in Essen-Bergerhausen belong to it.

Bruno Krell was married to the author Erna Hintz-Vonthron. He was buried in the southwest cemetery in Essen .

style

Krell did not use templates, models or sketches. He left the stone in its original shape as much as possible and only worked out the image intended for him, gently and very finely. The still recognizable “cold, hard stone” was given a soft, supple expressiveness. Thus his creations combine "the strict with the delicate".

Awards

Bruno Krell received the honorary award of the German Sports Association in 1954 . In 1960 the Essen critics received the honorary award for the design of a baptismal font in the Ludgerus Church. In 1972 Krell was awarded the diploma and medal of the Academica Internationale, Tommaso Campanelle in Rome .

literature

  • Wilhelm Westecker: Artists of the Ruhr region . Hellweg Verlag, Essen 1954.
  • Erna Hintz-Vonthron: dreams in stone. Pictorial poems for sculptures by Bruno Krell . Verlag Elke Schwarz, Baden-Baden 1977, ISBN 3-921531-12-8 .
  • Erwin Dickhoff: Essen heads . Ed .: City of Essen - Historical Association for City and Monastery of Essen. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1231-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the Ruhrland Artists' Association, Essen ; Retrieved September 25, 2017
  2. ↑ a b Palette, Röderhaus (ed.): Bruno Krell. The Ring Bergischer Künstler shows sculptures by Bruno Krell in the “Palette” . Wuppertal-Barmen October 1955 (exhibition folder).
  3. ↑ a b KS: Bears are playing in front of the skyscraper . In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung . No. 177/1956 , August 1, 1956, City of Essen (unpaginated).
personal data
SURNAME Krell, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Pirna
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1976
Place of death eat