Carolus Voigt

Carolus Voigt (born April 3, 1904 in Hamburg , † September 11, 1991 in Göttingen ) was a German sculptor .

Karl August Friedrich Voigt, Carolus Voigt since 1934 , came from a Hamburg working-class family and initially learned to sculpt as an autodidact. In 1932 he began studying sculpture at the trade academy in Hamburg, which he broke off after a short time due to the National Socialist takeover.

Voigt soon specialized in animal sculptures in bronze and ceramics. First exhibitions followed until the beginning of the Second World War interrupted his artistic activity. His works were persecuted as " degenerate art " at that time . His pre-war and wartime works have been almost completely lost due to bomb damage; after the war Voigt lived initially in Aumühle near Hamburg . He processed the immediate post-war period with numerous sculptures that show a clear reference to the work of Ernst Barlach .

In 1948 Voigt took part in the exhibition of contemporary Christian art in Cologne . In his later years in Göttingen , where Voigt had lived since 1967, he again mainly created animal sculptures of particular liveliness and zest for life.

Works by Carolus Voigt were shown in the exhibition Art in the Crisis in Hamburg 2001/2002. In 2004 the Stadtmuseum Göttingen organized a retrospective on his 100th birthday, followed in 2005 by an exhibition of sculptures in Reinbek Castle .

literature

• Erika Voigt (Ed.), Carolus Voigt, 1904 - 1991 . Catalog for the exhibition to commemorate the 90th birthday of the sculptor, self-published Göttingen, 1994
• Maike Bruhns, Art in the Crisis , Volume 2, Dölling and Galitz, 2001, ISBN 3-93337493-6 ,