Daniel Stocker

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Signature, 1905.

Georg Daniel Stocker (born July 9, 1865 in Stuttgart , † April 19, 1957 there ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Daniel Stocker was a student at the Art Academy in Stuttgart with Adolf von Donndorf . Study trips to Italy and France followed.

In 1904 he received the silver medal for tendons at the World Exhibition in St. Louis . On April 11, 1905, he received a visit from King Wilhelm II of Württemberg and his wife.

In 1915 he received the title of professor.

His younger brother was the sculptor Rudolf Stocker (1879–1949). Stocker - like his brother - the Stuttgarter Masonic Lodge Wilhelm to the rising sun on.

plant

  • 1905 Statue of Hegel based on a model by the sculptor Georg Rheineck on the front of the Stuttgart City Hall on Eichstrasse
  • 1905 Friedrich List - bust for the Bopser installation in Stuttgart, →  illustration
  • In 1908, on the king's 60th birthday, the entrepreneur Ernst von Sieglin donated the Weißenburgbrunnen in Alexanderstrasse, with the figure The Sensitive Girl .
  • In 1911 the stone figure Die Musik and 4 allegorical reliefs made of bronze for the royal box - drama, tragedy, comedy and dance - was created for the attic of the Great House of the Stuttgart State Theater .
  • In 1912 the bronze group Bocksprung was made for the fountain of the Zeppelin-Gymnasium am Stöckach in Stuttgart. The figure of a naked boy with a goat was supposed to represent a "symbol of youth and happiness".
  • Art Nouveau tomb of the gynecologist Otto Gutbrod, Heilbronn main cemetery
    Heilbronn-tomb-gutbrod

The war and post-war period changed the nature of the orders.

  • 1929 Monument to the fallen of the First World War in the hall of honor of the Feuerbach cemetery for those who died in the First World War
  • The two apostle figures "John and Paul" were created for the garrison church in Ulm.

There were portrait busts, for example of his wife and sister, both in marble, of the anatomist Paul Clemens von Baumgarten in Tübingen, of the entrepreneur Albert Boehringer in Ingelheim and the aircraft engineer Hanns Klemm .

Stocker also worked as a medalist .

literature

  • Hermann Missenharter: The sculptor Daniel Stocker . In: Württemberg. Monthly in the service of people and homeland 1930, pp. 302–307.
  • Stocker, Daniel . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 32 : Stephens – Theodotos . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1938, p. 74 .
  • Stocker, Daniel . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 481 .
  • Uli Kreh: The cold beauties. Plastiken in Stuttgart , Stuttgart 1993, pp. 72-85.
  • (tel): A dark point in the artist's biography . In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten of June 28, 2012, p. 24.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hegel's statue
  2. ↑ Weissenburg Fountain . The fountain system was destroyed in World War II, rebuilt in 1955 (in Lasa marble) and renovated in 2001.
  3. ↑ Bocksprungbrunnen ( memento of the original from August 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . The fountain has been functional again since 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zg.s.schule-bw.de
  4. ^ War memorial in Stuttgart. schule.bw, accessed on January 31, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Daniel Stocker. German Society for Medal Art, accessed on October 12, 2014 .

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personal data
SURNAME Stocker, Daniel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stocker, Georg Daniel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1957
Place of death Stuttgart