Christian Stüttgen

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Christian Stüttgen (born May 4, 1876 in Oberforstbach ; † January 7, 1942 in Eupen ) was a German sculptor and drawing teacher .

Live and act

At the age of five, Stüttgen came to Eupen, which was Prussian at the time, after his father Bernhard had got a job as a teacher at the elementary school in Eupen Lower Town. After completing his school days, Christian Stüttgen attended the University of Fine Arts in Berlin and completed this training period with the examination to become an “academic sculptor”. Then in 1903 he was represented with his bronze group "Choirboys from a Rhenish Procession" at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition , for which he received an honorary award.

In 1906, Stüttgen returned to Eupen, where he received a position as a city drawing teacher at the craftsmen's advanced training school from April 1 of that year. In addition, he gave drawing lessons at the industrial and commercial college as well as at the higher Catholic private girls' school on the Heidberg.

In addition to this teaching activity, he continued to work as a sculptor in his “Mon Plaisier” studio in Oestrasse in Eupens Unterstadt and presented his previous works in a joint exhibition in 1910 with Walter Ophey , Max Clarenbach and Johannes Hänsch in Eupen for the first time. A year later, Stüttgen was represented at the large art exhibition of the Kunstverein Hannover as well as in 1912 in Düsseldorf and in 1913 in the Leopold Hoesch Museum in Düren .

During the First World War , Stüttgen did his military service as a state rifleman in Saarlouis . After his return to the now Belgian Eupen, after the death of his father in 1921, he moved to the Lommerich estate together with his mother and brother Eugen. After his mother died in 1931 and his brother moved to Germany, Gut Lommerich was sold and Stüttgen retired completely to his studio. At the same time he stayed at the school in the lower town until 1940 and died two years later of the consequences of a stroke .

Christian Stüttgen remained unmarried throughout his life and found his final resting place in the Eupen municipal cemetery. Through his brother Eugen he is the great-uncle of the artist and Beuys student Johannes Stüttgen .

Works (selection)

In addition to his most famous work, the "Chorknaben", other works can mainly be found in his hometown of Eupen, including:

  • the horse troughs, commissioned by the Eupener Beautification Association, 1910. This fountain was removed in 1934 and restored in 1992 according to the original plans. Engraved is the saying: "Let this gift become a Labe".
  • the fountain basin for the Marienbrunnen on the market square, 1913
  • the warrior memorial in St. Joseph's Church , 1921. In the upper area the relief shows an angel with a cross, above and to the side of it the sentence: “YOUR WAR DEAD THE GRATEFUL PARISH ST. JOSEPH EUPEN 1914 1918 ”and under which the names of the dead are engraved in four columns
  • the table of favor of the Association for Youth and Folk Games, 1919
  • the corpus of the cross on the Heidberg, 1923. The approximately 5 meter high neoclassical bluestone cross dates from 1819 and was originally erected in the Eupen cemetery before it was brought to Heidberg in 1882 and the corpus was added in 1923.
  • the memorial stone of the orphanage, 1922
  • the warrior memorial in the St. Nicholas Church , 1925. The altar-like monument, adapted to the wooden wall paneling, consists of a central, life-size statue of Jesus in a figural niche, which is flanked on each side by two steles in a wooden frame with the names of the victims
  • Holy water fountain in St. Joseph's Church, 1936
  • wood-carved name plaques for the war dead of the Catholic journeyman's association in the war memorial in the Kolping House as well as memorial plaques for those killed in action by the "Eupener Football Club Fortuna 08" and the "Association for Youth and People's Games 1919"
  • several gravestones and memorial stones on the Eupener Friedhof

  • Horse drink

  • Marienbrunnen fountain basin

  • War memorial Josefskirche

  • Corpus cross Heidberg

  • War memorial Nikolauskirche

literature

  • Heinz Warny: Pictures of Life from Ostbelgien , Grenz-Echo Verlag, Eupen 2019, pp. 151–153 ISBN 978-3-86712-146-0

Web links

Commons : Christian Stüttgen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gut Lommerich on ostbelgien.net
personal data
SURNAME Stüttgen, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and drawing teacher
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberforstbach
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 1942
Place of death Eupen