Ernst Wossidlo

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Ernst Wossidlo (born November 3, 1884 in Stettin , † September 29, 1973 in Rostock ) was a German builder and sculptor .

Life

The merchant's son began studying sculpture with Balthasar Schmitt at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts in May 1914 at the age of 29 (matriculation number 5419). Further studies took him to the Charlottenburg Art School and the Dresden Art Academy .

Wossidlo was active as an animal sculptor. In the 1920s there was a fruitful collaboration with Curt Siegel in Dresden . This resulted in several sculptures with people (seals) and animals (wossidlo). In Rostock he and Paul Wallat created the terracotta decorations for the gables of the newly built houses in the composer's quarter.

Works

Greif , 1930s, Rostock
  • Sports girl , 1929
  • Siberian tiger , 1934
  • Battle horse , 1935
  • Dolphin fountain , 1938, Rostock rose garden
    The fountain, also known colloquially as “Forbidden Love” - a male figure hugged you or wrestled with a water-spouting fish, surrounded by six water-spouting dolphins and fish - has only existed since the 1950s as a limestone fountain bowl. The sculptures of the fountain erected during the Nazi era were destroyed in the new era.

A monument by the sculptor Walter Rammelt in Rostock's Marienkirche for those who died in the First World War no longer corresponded to contemporary tastes during the Nazi era and should be reworked. Before this came about, the monument was classified as " degenerate " in 1937 ; several figures have therefore been removed. Wossidlo was supposed to make up-to-date additions, but due to lack of money in the community, this no longer happened.

In addition to animal sculptures, he created a portrait bust of the Mecklenburg folklorist Richard Wossidlo . Several of Wossidlo's works are owned by the City Museum and the City of Rostock.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b c d Grete Grewolls : Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania: The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  2. ↑ 05419 Ernst Wossidlo. In: Matriculation database. Academy of Fine Arts Munich , accessed on June 1, 2020 ( digitized version of the matriculation book ).
  3. ↑ Homage for an artist from Loschwitz - Kurt Siegel (1881–1950). (PDF; 2.1 MB) In: Elbhang-Kurier . March 2001, pp. (6–) 9 , accessed June 1, 2020 .
  4. ↑ The composer's quarter in: Johann Gerdes, Susanne Breitzke, Anja Hawixbrock, Ina Brachmann: Social Atlas of the Hanseatic City of Rostock. University of Rostock, Institute for Sociology, March 1999, p. 22, online as PDF; 3.2 MB ( memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ).
  5. ↑ Bernfried Lichtnau (Ed.): Fine arts in Mecklenburg and Pomerania from 1880 to 1950: Art processes between the center and the periphery . Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86732-061-0 , pp. 409 ( limited preview in Google Book search). See also fountains in the rose garden , Rostock fountains, water features, watercourses. Treffpunkt-Ostsee.de, accessed on June 1, 2020. See also Der Brunnen "Verbotene Liebe" , Historical Rostocker Views, mv-terra-incognita.de, accessed on June 1, 2020.

  6. ↑ Hans-Heinrich Schimler: A memorial in St. Marien zu Rostock - restoration work secured the memorial cross. In: mv-terra-incognita.de. April 3, 2013, accessed June 1, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Wossidlo, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German builder and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH 29th September 1973
Place of death Rostock