Else Bach
Else Bach (born September 7, 1899 in Heidelberg , † April 25, 1951 in Pforzheim ) was a German sculptor .
Life
Else Bach came to Pforzheim as a child . She received her first artistic training at the local arts and crafts school . She started as a painter, but her interest in sculptural design was awakened. Her most important teacher was the sculptor Emil Salm from Pforzheim , from whom she received technical training in various sculpting techniques .
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Else Bach went on study trips at home and abroad. Often the goals were zoos in large cities, since animal representations made up a large part of their work. The "Bambi", which she created in clay in 1936 and later used for the German TV and Media Prize , is her most famous sculpture and the result of her intensive collaboration with the state majolica factory in Karlsruhe, for which she designed almost 50 animal figures.
Later on, nude figures, groups of figures and portrait busts made up a larger part of her work. One year after her death in 1952, the Pforzheim Arts and Crafts Association honored Else Bach with an exhibition of her life's work in the Reuchlinhaus .
She was buried in the main cemetery in Pforzheim .
Awards
- In 1937, at the World Exhibition in Paris, Bach received a Grand Prix for a group of foals made of bronze (later also in terracotta ).
literature
- Bach, Else in: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. First volume (AD) , EA Seemann, Leipzig 1999 (study edition). ISBN 3-363-00730-2 (p. 87)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ bambi.de: "Oh, that looks like Bambi!"
- ↑ http://www.antikbayreuth.de/kuenstlerverzeichnis/Kunstler_A-H/Else_Bach_Karlsruher_Majolika_/else_bach_karlsruher_majolika_.html
- ↑ https://schmidt-auktionen.de/12_katalog_online.php?nr=11&kue=1446
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bach, Else |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 7, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heidelberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 25, 1951 |
| Place of death | Pforzheim |