Carl Retzlaff

This article is about the visual artist. An article about the German police officer and SS group leader of the same name can be found under Karl Retzlaff .

Carl Friedrich Wilhelm August Retzlaff (born July 18, 1863 in Berlin , † September 22, 1929 in Detmold ) was a German sculptor , medalist and portrait painter .

Life

Retzlaff was the son of master wheelwright Johann Friedrich Retzlaff (* 1836) and his wife Joh. (Née Brasch). He attended the community school and learned the technique of wood carving from 1877 to 1881. He then worked for four years as a wood carver's assistant. In 1885 he attended the arts and crafts school and from 1886 to 1889 the royal art school in Berlin . In Max Baumbach's studio he carried out figurative works in wood for the royal museums. In 1890 he worked as a stone sculptor on large figures in the Reichstag building . He studied from 1891 to 1893 in the master's studio for sculpture in the master school under Ludwig Manzel an der Kgl. Academy of Arts and with Heinrich Wefing . He then moved to Detmold in 1893 , where from 1896 he worked as a modeller, first in ornament, later as a figurist on monuments and as a teacher at the municipal trade school. In 1899 he founded a "teaching studio for plastic arts". At first he made decorative works in plaster, wood and stone there. Then he devoted himself entirely to fine art and discovered his passion for the portrait subject. In 1902 he founded the "Lippische Kunstverein" together with Martha Caesar, organized art exhibitions and was also active as a writer on several occasions. From 1905 to 1907 he also taught at the Polytechnic in Lage .

The
Retzlaff family was married twice:

• Klara (nee Schäfer), daughter of the Gastrup merchant Schäfer and his wife Lina (nee Weert).
• Marie (née Koke), daughter of the Schwalenberg master carpenter Ernst Koke and his wife Henriette (née Wallburg).

literature

• Retzlaff, Carl. In: Germany's Austria-Hungary and Switzerland scholars, artists and writers in words and pictures. Volume 2, A. Steinhage, 1910, p. 570.
• Retzlaff, Carl. In: Hans Wolfgang Singer (Hrsg.): General artist encyclopedia - life and works of the most famous visual artists. 6th volume, 2nd addendum with corrections, prep. by Hermann Alexander Müller , Rütten & Loening Literary Institution, Frankfurt am Main 1922, p. 232 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Retzlaff, Carl Friedr. Wilh. August . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 28 : Ramsden-Rosa . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1934, p. 193 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Journal of Lippe History. No. 10 / June 2010, p. 48 ( rosenland-lippe.de ( memento of the original from June 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to instructions and then remove this note. PDF) accessed on September 19, 2017. 
2. ^ ^{A b} Hermann A. Ludwig Degener: Rrtzlaff, Carl Frledr. W. Aug. In: Who is it . 8th edition. Self-published, Leipzig 1922, p. 1256 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).