Emil Sutor

Emil Sutor (born June 19, 1888 in Offenburg ; † August 13, 1974 in Karlsruhe ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Mosaic statue above the portal of the Frankfurt Frauenfriedenskirche

Emil Sutor served an apprenticeship in the Offenburg Bildhauerwerkstatt Simmler & Venator and attended from 1907 to 1909, the Karlsruhe art academy as a student of Hermann Volz , then at the Art Academy in Dresden at Georg Wrba to study and also after subsequent stays in Leipzig , Munich and Paris his Deepen studies.

Since 1919 he had his own studio in Karlsruhe. From 1925 to 1936 he worked with the State Majolica Manufactory in Karlsruhe . His numerous, mostly church commissions in many places of worship also stem from this collaboration. In 1928 he created a. a. the then largest free-standing mosaic statue of the Mother of God in Europe for the facade of the Frauenfriedenskirche by the architect Hans Herkommer in Frankfurt-Bockenheim . In occasion of the 1936 Summer Olympics conducted art competition he won for his reliefs "hurdler" (now in the museum in Tokyo) and "Hockey Fight" a gold medal in the sculpture competition in Category reliefs.

In 1937 Emil Sutor became a member of the NSDAP. In the Hitler years there was no demand for church art, and Sutor did a lot for the National Socialists. He created hero and war memorials and other heroic sculptures such as the "Germanic family". He designed one of his monumental SA monuments for the city of Singen. A new start with a return to church art and the reduced physicality typical of Sutor took place after the war in 1948.

In 1958 Emil Sutor modeled a version of the Bambi- Deer, the well-known German media award, as a sculptor for the Burda publishing house in Offenburg , at the special request of the owner Franz Burda . The Bambi was cast in bronze and gilded. The Sutor model remained unchanged until 1999. This side work became his most media-effective work.

Until shortly before his death he carried out numerous public contracts.

Relief on the Mannheim St. Peter Church

Sculpture at the Karlsruhe Wildpark Stadium

Bambi award to Franz Beckenbauer in 1990

Relief wedding at Cana at the Brother Klaus Church in Constance

literature

A. Klein: Sutor, Emil . 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. 320 .
Sutor, Emil . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 392 .

Web links

Commons : Emil Sutor - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Johannes Werner: Once and never again. Emil Sutor and his masterpiece. In: The Ortenau . tape 91, 2011 , p. 477-482 .
↑ Gabi Rieger: Stockach: Sculptor Emil Sutor and his works in the Stockach Church of St. Oswald. March 8, 2017, accessed June 11, 2020 .
^ Johannes Werner: Bambi in Baden. Path and change of a fictional character. In: Badische Heimat . tape 2/2016 , p. 258-261 .

personal data
SURNAME	Sutor, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	June 19, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH	Offenburg
DATE OF DEATH	August 13, 1974
Place of death	Karlsruhe

[1] Johannes Werner: Once and never again. Emil Sutor and his masterpiece. In: The Ortenau . tape 91, 2011 , p. 477-482 .

[2] Gabi Rieger: Stockach: Sculptor Emil Sutor and his works in the Stockach Church of St. Oswald. March 8, 2017, accessed June 11, 2020 .

[3] Johannes Werner: Bambi in Baden. Path and change of a fictional character. In: Badische Heimat . tape 2/2016 , p. 258-261 .