Emil Dittler
Emil Dittler (born April 14, 1868 in Pforzheim ; † January 19, 1902 in Munich ) was a German sculptor .
Live and act
Emil Dittler was born as the second of five sons of an entrepreneur in Pforzheim and grew up in downtown Pforzheim. First he did an apprenticeship as a chaser and then switched to the local arts and crafts school . There he discovered his penchant for sculpture. In 1887, at the age of 19, Dittler moved to the Munich Art Academy in the class of Syrius Eberle , where his classmates included Josef Flossmann and Georg Wrba , whom he impressed with his wealth of ideas and imagination. However, he left the academy after only one year and moved to Florence for three years in 1893 to study Italian Renaissance sculpture . There he made the “mourner”, a marble sculpture for his family's grave in Pforzheim.
From 1896 Dittler lived and worked as a freelance artist in Munich. After a short time he was fully recognized as an artist around the turn of the century and received many commissions. His works include tombs, memorials and fountains. These included the Pforzheimer Bismarck monument from 1900, which was originally erected on Bahnhofplatz. There are several tombs he designed in the main cemetery in Pforzheim.
Emil Dittler died at the early age of 33 and was therefore no longer able to carry out two major commissions: a monument to the British Queen Victoria , which was to be erected in India, and the monument he designed for Ludwig the Bavarian , which his friend and sculptor Colleague August Drumm (1862–1904) and which was cast by Ferdinand von Miller in 1905.
Further plants in Pforzheim
- Bichlerstein on Davosweg
- Dittler family grave and other tombs in the main cemetery
- Fountain figure "Melusine", cast in the Pforzheim gallery
literature
- Georg Habich : Emil Dittler †. In: Arts and Crafts. 52nd year 1901/1902, pp. 241–268.
- Dittler, Emil . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 9 : Delaulne-Dubois . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1913, p. 335 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- A short life for art. Special page of the Pforzheimer Zeitung . January 30, 2002, p. 20.
- Dorle Gribl: Solln and the Prince Ludwigshöhe. Villas and their residents. Volk Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-86222-043-4 , p. 37 f.
- Hans Dollinger : The Munich street names. 6th edition, Südwest Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-517-08370-4 .
Web links
- Emil Dittler on www.pfenz.de
- Sculptor Prof. August Drumm 1862–1904 on mein-bayern.lexikus.de
- State bibliography of Baden-Württemberg
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dittler, Emil |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 14, 1868 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pforzheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 19, 1902 |
| Place of death | Munich |