Felix Kupsch

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Albert Felix Kupsch (born September 20, 1883 in Berlin ; † 1969 there ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Porch of the Berlin Kreuzkirche with blue glazed ceramics, together with column figures by Felix Kupsch
Cenotaph for the fallen soldiers of the Opole postal administration, 1930

After a practical apprenticeship as a sculptor, Felix Kupsch worked as an employee in the studios of Otto Stichling and Franz Metzner . He took up studies at the Berlin Academy of the Arts , where he was supported by August Gaul and Louis Tuaillon . He later taught building sculpture as a professor at the Berlin School of Arts and Crafts . From December 1934 to April 1941 he participated in the studio community in Klosterstrasse , in which Käthe Kollwitz and Herbert Tucholski also worked. For the State Opera Unter den Linden , which was rebuilt in 1942 after an air raid , Kupsch created four atlases in the foyer .

Works

  • Ullstein owl in the physics building of the Technical University of Berlin (probably from the old Ullsteinhaus in Kochstrasse )
  • around 1915: sculptural jewelry in terracotta at the Postbahnhof (Post Office 77) in Berlin, Luckenwalder Strasse 4-6
  • around 1925: plastic jewelry in black terracotta at Friedrichstrasse station (destroyed apart from small remains)
  • three-dimensional jewelry for a group of buildings in Humboldtstrasse in Frankfurt (Oder)
  • around 1925: Sculptures of folk song and ceremony (shell limestone) in the courtyard of the building group Am Treptower Park 55–57 / Leiblstrasse 19–21
  • around 1925: Sculptures Postillon and Postflieger on the facade of Post Office 36 in Berlin-Kreuzberg , Skalitzer Strasse 84–92
  • around 1928: Sculptures of St. Monika and St. Augustine above the portal of the entrance hall of the Catholic. Church of St. Augustine in Berlin, Dänenstrasse 17/18
  • 1928: Reliefs made of iron clinker ceramics at the Brick Expressionist post office in Breslau (scenes from life in Wroclaw, postilion heads from different centuries, building slogan and portal framing, made by the Ullersdorfer Werke, Nieder Ullersdorf , Sorau district) (architecture by Post Building Councilor Lothar Neumann )
  • around 1929: Corner figures of the four apostles on the tower and the portal with porch at the Kreuzkirche in Berlin, Hohenzollerndamm 130a
    The exterior of the church is considered the highlight of Expressionist brick architecture, another part of the sculptural jewelry comes from Max Esser .
  • Collaboration on four sculptures in the bear settlement in Berlin-Tempelhof
  • 1930: Cenotaph for the officers of the Oberpostdirektion Opole in Opole who died in the First World War
  • 1932: Medal "Honorary gift from the Berliner Sängerverein e. V. Caecilia Melodia ”with the portrait of the music director Max Eschke
  • 1933: Cenotaph for the fallen from the flak cartillery (bronze) in the Lankwitz barracks in front of the Emmich block in Berlin (destroyed, Neuguss since 1957 at the Steglitz cemetery )
  • around 1936: ceramic jewelry on the pulpit of the Lindenkirche in Berlin-Wilmersdorf , Homburger Strasse 40–48
  • 1935: Sculpture load carrier (sandstone) on the facade of the Anne Frank elementary school in Berlin-Moabit , Paulstrasse
  • 1942: Atlases in the foyer of the State Opera, removed during the reconstruction around 1955.

gallery

  • Detail from the entrance of the Berlin Kreuzkirche

  • Frankfurt (Oder), Humboldtstrasse / Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse

  • Frankfurt (Oder), Humboldtstrasse / Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse

  • At the post office in Wroclaw : A student ( Wroclaw Prussian with a Prussian circle ) receives his monthly bill from the postal carrier

  • Bear settlement in Berlin-Neukölln: plastic in the passage area

  • Cenotaph for the fallen in the anti-aircraft guns, bronze, 1933/1957

literature

  • Günther Herkt: The work of the sculptor Felix Kupsch. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung , Vol. 64, No. 39 (May 14, 1930), pp. 305-312 ( digitized version ).
  • Dressler's art manual , edition 1930, volume 2.
  • Velhagen & Klasings monthly books, Volume 48 / I (1933/1934), pp. 570f. / Volume 50 / I (1935/1936), p. 664, p. 688. / Volume 50 / II (1936), p. 504, p. 559 / Volume 51 / II (1937), p. 548, p. 584 / Volume 54, p. 144, p. 170
  • Westermanns Monatshefte , Volume 158 (1935), p. 369.
  • Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 57th year 1937, p. 707.
  • Das Bild , 10/1940, pp. 178–180.
  • Kupsch, Felix . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 142 .
  • Stefanie Endlich, Bernd Wurlitzer: Sculptures and monuments in Berlin. Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-87776-034-1 .

Web links

Commons : Felix Kupsch  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Registry office Schmargendorf : marriage register . No. 24/1906.
  2. ↑ Erich Meffert: The house of the State Opera and its new design . Max Beck, Leipzig 1944, plates 3–5a.
  3. ↑ http://wroclaw.fotopolska.eu/Wroclaw/b64104,Detale.html
  4. ^ The postal check office in Breslau. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung , 65th year 1931, page 61. ( online as PDF)
  5. ↑ https://www.google.de/maps/@51.107241,17.043716,3a,37.5y,14.88h,105.05t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sII60lxdxbKAYgJKdfFd3sQ!2e0
personal data
SURNAME Kupsch, Felix
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kupsch, Albert Felix (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 1969
Place of death Berlin