Ferdinand Filler
Ferdinand Filler (born January 7, 1902 in Untermeitingen , † July 5, 1977 in Starnberg ) was a Bavarian sculptor .
Life
Ferdinand Filler was born in 1902 as the son of a farmer in Swabia. He studied twelve semesters at the Munich Art Academy with Professor Karl Killer. Study visits to Paris, Rome and Florence. This was followed by a first participation in the great Munich art exhibition in the Glaspalast in 1936. The wooden sculpture The tired Wanderer was rejected in the House of German Art . Destruction of the studio with all work in a bomb attack. New studio in Königswiesen near Gauting. As a founding member of the Neue Gruppe , he regularly took part in the Great Art Exhibition at the Haus der Kunst in Munich from 1950 to 1975.
In the years after the war, there was a creative phase in which the sculptor increasingly dealt with religious topics; commissioned works for several important Munich churches also fall during this period. For the Mariahilfkirche, among other things, the side altars and baptismal font, for the Church of St. Paul and Mary Queen of Peace wooden crucifixes.
His most famous works are public bridge sculptures such as the stone carriers to the Inn Bridge in Griesstätt, the rafters on the Loisachbrücke in Grossweil, and the Wedekind fountain in Munich-Schwabing. The Daphnes & Cloe stone relief on the rear facade of the Allianz insurance building is also important .
His predilection for mythological subjects was also expressed in his free work, for example in the statue of Aphrodite , the Terpsichore , the Apocalyptic Horseman .
Awards and honors
- Sponsorship award from the city of Munich , 1959
- Art Prize of the Academy of Fine Arts, 1959
- Schwabing Art Prize , 1964
- Water Lily Prize 1968
Work
- St. George and wooden crucifix in the Church of Mary, Queen of Peace (Munich)
- Wedekindbrunnen on Wedekindplatz in Munich (1959)
- Side altars & baptismal font in the Mariahilfkirche (Munich) (1960)
- Large crucifix in the Church of St. Paul (Munich) (1960)
- St. Clare and St. Francis in the Church of St. Clare (1950/52)
- Daphnes and Cloe, stone relief Allianz insurance building
- The stone girder, bridge figure on the Inn Bridge near Griesstätt
- The Flösser, bridge figure on the Loisach Bridge near Grossweil
- Relief stone, Amperbrücke near Zollingen
- Four element stone, large lobes
- Forest cycle, stele on Wildhaubenweg in Munich
See also
literature
- Ferdinand Filler: sculptures in wood . Starczewski Verlag, Munich 1966.
- Painter and sculptor in Munich . Kurt Desch publishing house, Munich 1946.
- Claudia Mayr, Martha Schad: Women in bronze and stone. Stiebner, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8307-1043-1 .
- Fountain in Munich . Verlag Georg DW Callwey, Munich 1974, ISBN 3-7667-0303-X .
- Ernst-Erik Pfannschmidt: Water games. Ernst Wasmuth Verlag, Tübingen 1967.
- Norbert Lieb , HJ Sauermost, H. Friedel: Munich's churches. Süddeutscher Verlag, Munich 1973.
- Josef H. Biller, Hans-Peter Rasp: Munich Art & Culture. Südwest Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-517-06977-9 .
- Large art exhibition Munich 1963. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the Haus der Kunst, Munich.
- 55 years of the water lily circle. Catalog for the anniversary exhibition in the Rathausgalerie Munich, 2003.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Filler, Ferdinand |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 7, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Untermeitingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th July 1977 |
| Place of death | Starnberg |