Bruno Ziegler
Bruno Ziegler (born May 21, 1879 in Gotha ; † July 8, 1941 in Chemnitz ) was a German sculptor .
Life
After training with Georg Kugel at the drawing school in Eisenach and then with Karl Groß in Dresden , Ziegler was based in Chemnitz from 1911 and worked as a freelance sculptor. From 1913 he was a member of the German Werkbund (DWB) and from 1924 in the artist group Chemnitz .
Bruno Ziegler died in the summer of 1941. In March 1942 a commemorative exhibition was held in the Kunsthütte Chemnitz .
Works (selection)
- Design of the Luther Church in Neuwürschnitz
- Warrior Memorial in Hainichen
- 1923: Memorial to the fallen in the Evangelical Church of the Savior in Lauterbach (Marienberg)
- around 1924: Design of the family crypt of the manufacturer A. Robert Wieland in Auerbach (Ore Mountains) (with sculpture "Mother Earth")
- 1925: Memorial for the fallen and missing of the First World War in the churchyard of the Olbernhau town church
- 1926: Reliefs on the building of the Deutsche Bank AG in Chemnitz, Falkeplatz (embodiments of industry, trade, architecture as well as agriculture and forestry)
- around 1926: figurative baptismal font in the Protestant Luther Church in Neuwiese
- 1928: Bell tower as a warrior honor on the cemetery in Lauter (Ore Mountains)
- figurative design of the Stadtbad Chemnitz (for example flag base with the associated water animal groups at the entrance area)
- allegorical figures at the entrance portal of the administration building of Sächsische Maschinenfabrik AG in front of Richard Hartmann in Chemnitz, Hartmannstraße 24 (today police headquarters)
- Figures of the old carillon in Chemnitz
- around 1929: Relief, door frames, ceramics (entrance portal) at the secondary school in Chemnitz (today Georgius-Agricola-Gymnasium Chemnitz )
- 1933: Cenotaph for the city administration employees who died in World War I in Chemnitz town hall
- 1933: Memorial: "I had a comrade", for those who fell in Gelenau in the First World War, in the Gelenau church garden
- War memorial stone on the building of the Vereinsbank in Coburg
- 1935: Profile relief of the manufacturer A. Robert Wieland , (bronze, private collection)
Picture gallery
Wieland tomb in Auerbach
War honors in Lauter
War memorial stone in Coburg
literature
- Ziegler, Bruno . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 36 : Wilhelmy-Zyzywi . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1947, p. 486 .
- Ralf W. Müller: artist group Chemnitz 1907–1933. Chemnitz 2003, ISBN 3-910186-45-9 .
- Falk Drechsel, Heike Krause, Klaus Michael Oßwald: ARWA - the rise and fall of a stocking empire. Schmidt, Neustadt an der Aisch 2014, pp. 33–34.
Web links
Commons : Bruno Ziegler - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- stadtbibliothek-chemnitz.de: Sculptures in downtown Chemnitz: Bruno Ziegler (accessed on June 3, 2014)
Individual evidence
- ^ Page of the congregation about the Heilandskirche and its equipment ( memento of July 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 8, 2012.
- ↑ The Crypt, Part 10 ( Memento from February 17, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ a b c work and art. 1st year 1930, issue 2.
- ↑ Things to see and visit in and around Lauter ( Memento from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 8, 2012.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ziegler, Bruno |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 21, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gotha |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 8, 1941 |
| Place of death | Chemnitz |