Ferdinand Huttenlocher
Ferdinand Gottlieb Huttenlocher (born September 12, 1856 in Plochingen , † May 12, 1925 in Bern ) was a German sculptor who worked in Switzerland as a specialist teacher for applied arts .
Life
Ferdinand Huttenlocher grew up in Plochingen and Nürtingen . He completed training at the commercial drawing school in Rottenburg am Neckar and then worked as a practical sculptor. Among other things, he worked on the construction of the Alte Oper and the Städel Art Institute in Frankfurt am Main as well as on Neuschwanstein Castle . Two more years of training at the Stuttgart School of Applied Arts followed five years as a freelance sculptor, until Huttenlocher then decided in 1886 to go to Switzerland as a specialist teacher for applied arts. There he first took up a teaching position at the Cantonal Schnitzler School (today: School for Wood Sculpture ) in Brienz , but switched to the Cantonal Technical Center in Biel a year later . The later painter and stage designer Karl Walser was one of his students there . In 1900 Huttenlocher became a teacher in the arts and crafts class at the crafts and arts school in Bern . At the same time, he was still active in handicrafts: For example, he made the wood carvings for the Council of States seats in the National Council Chamber of Bern's Federal Palace . In 1904 he was commissioned to design a sculpture for the fountain on Bern's Bärenplatz . His sandstone statue Playing Bears based on a design by Rudolf Münger was located there until 1935. Huttenlocher was also an influential supporter of the Bernese art scene in the first decades of the 20th century.
Ferdinand Huttenlocher was the father of the Swiss geologist Heinrich Huttenlocher (1890–1954).
Works (selection)
- Sculpture: Bears playing on the Bärenplatzbrunnen in Bern, 1904 (replaced in 1935)
Fonts (selection)
- A collection of three-dimensional drawing templates, collotype prints. Huttenlocher-Sautermeister, Stuttgart 1883.
- Textbook: Drawing templates for teaching freehand drawing. 1886.
- A collection of ornaments and designs. Orell Füssli, Zurich 1890.
- The wood carvings from the National Council Chamber of the Federal Palace in Bern. 24 plates in collotype. Kreuzmann-Verlag, Zurich and Stuttgart 1902.
literature
- Peter Bernet: Huttenlocher, Ferdinand. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Huttenlocher, Ferdinand . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 18 : Hubatsch – Ingouf . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1925, p. 193 .
- H. Türler: Huttenlocher, Ferdinand Gottlieb. In: Carl Brun: Swiss Artist Lexicon. Volume 2: HR. Huber-Verlag, Frauenfeld 1908, pp. 110–111 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ The brothers Karl and Robert Walser, ed. Bernhard Echte and Andreas Meier. Stäfa 1900, p. 204.
- ^ Theodor Hügi: Huttenlocher, Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 102 f. ( Digitized version ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Huttenlocher, Ferdinand |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Huttenlocher, Ferdinand Gottlieb (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 12, 1856 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Plochingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 12, 1925 |
| Place of death | Bern |