Ernst Gottschalk (sculptor)

Ernst Gottschalk (born October 15, 1877 in Düsseldorf , † September 2, 1942 there , full name: Friedrich Ernst Gottschalk ) was a German sculptor .

Ernst Gottschalk was a member of the " Young Rhineland " association, Malkasten and later the "Rheinische Sezession". His work includes monuments, sculptures, portrait busts, reliefs and figural grave monuments.

Life

education

Ernst Gottschalk began training as a wood carver in 1892 at the age of 15 at the Düsseldorf School of Applied Arts . From 1904 to 1905 he studied at the Art School at Halleschen Tor in Berlin and, after working in Jekaterinoslaw , southern Russia, continued his studies from 1907 to 1910 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under Rudolf Bosselt and Hubert Netzer .

Years as an artist

In the period from 1910 until his death in 1942, Gottschalk was a free artist member of the “ Young Rhineland ” association and later, after its dissolution, until 1938, a member of the “Rhenish Secession” association. He cultivated friendships with painters such as Otto Dix , Otto Pankok , Heinrich Nauen (the teacher from Dix), Werner Gilles and sculptors such as Ernst Barlach , Georg Kolbe , Wilhelm Lehmbruck and Arno Breker , which he renounced as this for the Nazis to began to work, which Gottschalk refused. He had a close and friendly relationship with Johanna Ey .

Female nude in front of the main entrance of the Museum Kunstpalast . 1925 on the occasion of the GeSoLei

Last years of life

In 1935 Gottschalk helped the Jewish sculptor Bernhard Sopher to escape at the last minute and thus saved him from internment in a camp and probably from certain death.

Exhibitions

• The Junge Rheinland Düsseldorf Kunsthalle June 22 - July 20, 1919
• Purchase competition of the city of Düsseldorf Kunsthalle February 1920
• Large art exhibition Düsseldorf Kunstpalast 15 May - 3 October 1920
• First international art exhibition Düsseldorf Kunstpalast May 28 - July 3, 1922
• Great Berlin art exhibition in 1922
• Düsseldorf Artists Association May - June 1922
• Rheingruppe department store Tietz Düsseldorf from November 26, 1923
• Large Düsseldorf art exhibition, Cologne July 19 - end of August 1924
• Large art exhibition Düsseldorf May 30th - October 4th 1925
• Barmen Hall of Fame March 1926
• Kunsthalle Düsseldorf from May 2 to June 1926
• GeSoLei 1926
• Large art exhibition Düsseldorf 8 May - October 1926
• German Art Düsseldorf May - October 1928
• Anniversary exhibition Düsseldorf Kunsthalle May 4 - June 30, 1929
• Rheinische Kunst Nuremberg May 24th - October 5th 1930
• Rheinische Sezession annual exhibition Düsseldorf Kunsthalle May - June 1930
• Rheinische Kunst Berlin March 1 to April 6, 1930
• Düsseldorf-Munich art exhibition, Düsseldorf May 14th - August 31st 1932
• Young Religious Art Kunsthalle Düsseldorf August 13th - October 2nd 1932
• Portrait exhibition at Kunstverein 1932
• Kunsthalle Düsseldorf October - November 1933
• Excerpt from the young and youngest artistic creation Düsseldorf Kunsthalle January 13th - February 28th 1935
• Large art exhibition Düsseldorf Kunsthalle May 15 - October 15, 1937
• Spring exhibition in Düsseldorf Kunsthalle March 1 - May 31, 1940
• Autumn exhibition of the Düsseldorf artist Kunsthalle October 6th - December 24th 1940

Posthumous exhibitions

• Winter exhibition of the Düsseldorf artist Kunsthalle December 13, 1942 - January 31, 1943
• Winter exhibition of the Düsseldorf artist Kunsthalle December 19, 1943 - January 1944
• Düsseldorf commemorative exhibition "Living Heritage" 1946
• Düsseldorf memorial exhibition "Living Past" 1956

Selected Works

• 1906 commissioned work of a statue at the state art school in Yekaterinoslav, southern Russia
• 1922 Stone sculpture “Wailing Women”, first purchase by the city of Düsseldorf
• 1925 two large female nudes on the occasion of the GeSoLei
• 1926 Two stone sculptures (on the Rheinlust) on the occasion of the GeSoLei
• 1930 bust of the poet Christian Dietrich Grabbe for the Düsseldorf City Museum
• 1932 war memorial in Geldern
• 1933 Schloßmann monument, in the University Hospital Düsseldorf , Moorenstrasse, Düsseldorf-Bilk
• 1933 bust of the poet Heinrich Heine on behalf of the Düsseldorf Heimatverein "Düsseldorfer Jonges"
• 1934 Christopherus statue (larger than life) for the Düsseldorf police headquarters
• 1935 Large stone statue "Der Spatenmann" for the North Park in Düsseldorf as part of the Reich Exhibition Schaffendes Volk 1936 (lost)
• 1938 Hermes statue for the Hamborn association bank

Web links

Commons : Ernst Gottschalk  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Information about the Heine bust on the website of the Düsseldorf Jonges
• Large female nude on the occasion of the GeSoLei (photo)