Carl Stock (artist)

Carl Stock (born March 10, 1876 in Kesselstadt ; † April 5, 1945 in Frankfurt a. M. ) was a German sculptor, draftsman, medalist and artisan.

Life

Körner monument, created in 1915.

Stock studied at the State Drawing Academy in Hanau with Max Wiese , where he also became a master student. At the age of 16 he already received the state award and the large silver medal of the academy. He then went to Munich , where he and his former classmate Adolf Amberg created a silver fountain for the 1900 World Exhibition in Paris . This was awarded a bronze medal in the exhibition. In 1905 Stock was in Berlin , where he worked for Ludwig Hoffmann as a building sculptor before he went to the silver goods factory P. Bruckmann & Sons in Heilbronn , where he became artistic director. From 1908 Stock worked in the Städel studio house in Frankfurt a. M. Here he mainly created architectural sculptures, grave monuments and fountain figures as well as medals.

During the First World War, Stock made the wooden statue of the “Iron Eagle”, which was officially inaugurated in June 1915, a nail figure with which donations were collected by hammering nails. Stock also designed posters, postcards and a medal “Help for German prisoners of war” in the context of this campaign.

Works

Postcard about the nailing of the "Iron Eagle" in Frankfurt, 1915.

• Bronze plaque for the first scheduled landing of a Zeppelin airship in Frankfurt, 1909 (Historisches Museum Frankfurt)
• Figures on the tower of St. Luke's Church, 1913 (attributed to Stock) (Frankfurt a. M. Sachsenhausen)
• Architectural sculpture of the leather factory J. Mayer & Sohn, 1912 (Offenbach)
• Bronze medal "Help for German prisoners of war", 1915 (Historical Museum Frankfurt)
• Theodor Körner Monument, 1915 (Frankfurt a. M. Körnerwiese)
• Friend's tomb, 1917 (Frankfurt a. M .: main cemetery)
• Portrait medal Frieda Rothschild, 1918 (Historical Museum Frankfurt)
• Gerber fountain, 1924 (Worms)
• David Stempel tomb, 1927 (Frankfurt a. M .: main cemetery)
• New Year's Medal 1927 and 1928 (Frankfurt a. M .: Historical Museum)
• Fountain, 1928 (Bitterfeld)
• Portrait medal Arthur von Weinberg, 1929 (Frankfurt a. M .: Historical Museum)
• Ornamental fountain for the garden of a villa, 1930 (in the Taunus)
• Bronze medal Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1930/32 (Frankfurt a. M .: Historical Museum)
• Günther Groenhoff tomb, 1933 (Frankfurt a. M .: main cemetery)
• Schmelzer, Grünsfelder Muschelkalk, 1936/37 (Degussa House)
• Tomb for the seven victims of the airship Hindenburg, which crashed in Lakehurst, 1937–1939 (Frankfurt a. M .: main cemetery)
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  Bronze medal for the nailing of the "Iron Eagle" in Frankfurt, 1915.
  Worker sculpture, 1938 (Frankfurt a. M .: Hauptbahnhof)
• Cast iron plaque "100 Years Taunus Railway", 1940 (Frankfurt a. M .: Historical Museum)
• 12 high relief figures in the gable of the Chemical Institute of the University of Frankfurt a. M.
• Warrior Memorial (Rödelheim)
• Building sculpture IG settlement (Frankfurt a. M. Eschersheimer Landstrasse)
• Council silver (Aachen)
• Figure of recovery, park sanatorium of the Reichsbahndirektion (Bad Homburg vd Höhe)
• Memorials in Bad Homburg vd Höhe, Isenburg, Hofheim aT
• various designs for the silver goods factory P. Bruckmann & Sons in Heilbronn
• Puck fountain in the garden of the Holzdorf manor (near Weimar)

literature

• Theodor Heuss : sculptor Carl Stock . In: German Art and Decoration , Vol. 42, 1918, pp. 37–43 ( online ).
• Paul Schubring : Carl Stock . In: Decorative Art , Vol. 26 (1922/23), pp. 233–246 ( online ).
• Heinz Leitermann : Newer works by Carl Stock . In: Art for everyone: painting, sculpture, graphics, architecture , vol. 51.1935–1936, pp. 134–139 ​​( online ).
• Gisela Förschner: Carl Stock - sculptor and medalist; Born March 10, 1876 in Kesselstadt near Hanau, died April 5, 1945 in Frankfurt am Main: Frankfurt medals and plaques from the first half of our century (IV) . In: Geldgeschichtliche Nachrichten: GN , Vol. 25, 1990, pp. 342-349.
• Alexander Bastek (arr.): Of heads and bodies. Frankfurt sculpture from the Städel , Frankfurt a. M .: Städel 2006, ISBN 9783935283113 , pp. 254-255.