Carl Burckhardt (artist)

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Carl Burckhardt (born January 13, 1878 in Lindau near Zurich , † December 24, 1923 in Ligornetto ) was a Swiss painter and sculptor . He created works in the neoclassical style.

Life and works

Carl Burckhardt (1878–1923), also called Carl Nathan Burckhardt. Sculpture. Amazon, leading horse. Gift of the Basler Kunstverein, 1926, location, Schifflände, Basel
Amazon, leading horse. Basel shipyard
Carl Burckhardt (1878–1933) painter and sculptor, grave in the Wolfgottesacker cemetery, Basel
Grave in the Wolfgottesacker cemetery

Carl Burckhardt was a student of the painter Fritz Schider from 1896 , after which he attended Heinrich Knirr's private school in Munich with Heinrich Altherr . A trip to Rome , which he took with Altherr in 1899, turned his interest to sculpture. He began working on the Zeus and Eros group in 1901 . Under the influence of Max Klinger , from 1904 he worked on the polylithic composition Venus . He won a competition for the design of niche figures and facade reliefs at the Kunsthaus Zürich in 1909. He won another competition in 1922 with the figure of the knight Georg.

From 1913 until his death, Burckhardt was an active member of the commission of the Basler Kunstverein . In Basel , on the bridgehead of the Middle Bridge in Grossbasel, there is a bronze figure of an Amazon leading a horse by Carl Burckhardt. The work was commissioned by the Kunstverein in the early 1920s; In 1926 she donated it to the canton of Basel-Stadt. It is Burckhardt's last work, but he was no longer able to complete it; the casting took place after his untimely death. As early as 1914, Burckhardt had worked on the Amazon motif in five relief images for the Zurich Kunsthaus. Louis Léon Weber worked for Burckhardt from 1912 and helped him carve out the five reliefs.

Other publicly accessible works by Burckhardt in Basel are the portal relief at the Pauluskirche and the bronze statue of the knight Georg am Kohlenberg. In the spring of 1922, the sculpture was the first prize out of the competition from an anonymous competition organized by the Kunstkredit Basel-Stadt commission for the plastic decoration of the stairs on the Kohlenberg in Basel.

In front of the Badischer Bahnhof in the Hirzbrunnen there are two fountains by Burckhardt. They are called Father Rhine and Mother Wiese . The wells were planned before the First World War , but construction could not be started until 1918 and commissioning took place in 1921.

In 1954, works by Burckhardt and Numa Donzé were shown in a memorial exhibition at the Kunsthalle Basel .

Burckhardt's brother was Paul Burckhardt (1880–1961), then an architect, painter, draftsman and illustrator. There was a lively correspondence between them. Carl Burckhardt was married to the painter Sophie Hipp , Johanna Hipp's younger sister . Titus Burckhardt was their son. Carl Burkhardt is buried in the Wolfgottesacker in Basel. The architect Ernst Friedrich Burckhardt was his nephew.

In 2018 a Carl Burckhardt retrospective took place in the Museo Vincenzo Vela i n Ligornetto and in 2018/19 in a slightly more concentrated form also in the Kunstmuseum Basel .

literature

  • Gianna A. Mina , Tomas Lochman (eds.): Carl Burckhardt 1878–1923. A sculptor between Basel, Rome and Ligornetto / Uno scultore tra Basilea, Roma e Ligornetto. Christoph Merian Verlag, Basel 2018, ISBN 978-3-85616-876-6 .
  • Titus Burckhardt : Zeus and Eros. Letters and notes by the sculptor Carl Burckhardt , Urs-Graf-Verlag, Olten and Lausanne, 1919

Web links

Commons : Carl Burckhardt  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.zitate-datenbank.service-itzehoe.de/wer-hat-geburtstag/01/13/ ( Memento from January 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ http://www.cosmopolis.ch/cosmo10/Scherer.htm
  3. ↑ http://www.altbasel.ch/fragen/amazone_pferd_rheinbruecke.html
  4. ↑ http://www.hochrhein-zeitung.de/start/basel/439/20581-sanierung-der-bronzeskulptur-amazone.html
  5. ^ Architecture and Art, 1918: Figure groups Rhine and meadow. Retrieved November 9, 2019 .
  6. ↑ http://www.nqv-hirzbrunnen.ch/hirzbrunnen.html
  7. ↑ http://www.brunnenfuehrer.ch/brunnen/wiese.htm
personal data
SURNAME Burckhardt, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Lindau ZH
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1923
Place of death Ligornetto