Franz Guntermann

Franz Guntermann

Former studio and home of the sculptor Franz Guntermann, first building in the Bauhaus style of Münster, today a listed building

Franz Guntermann , full name Wilhelm Franz Guntermann , (born August 22, 1881 in Steele , † February 15, 1963 in Münster ) was a German sculptor .

Life

As the son of a worker, Franz Guntermann attended elementary school. From 1896 to 1900 he completed an apprenticeship as a sculptor with the master sculptor Peter Scharwitz in Bochum . From 1900 to 1903 he was on journeyman journeys and worked in various sculpting workshops. The last stop was in Munich , where from 1904 he also attended the arts and crafts school in preparation for attending the Academy of Fine Arts . From 1908 to 1912 he studied as a master student of Balthasar Schmitt at the Munich Art Academy. In 1912 he was appointed head of the sculpture class at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Dessau . From 1914 to 1928 he taught at the crafts and arts and crafts school in Bielefeld . The artist had connections to the Wiedenbrück school . From 1928 to 1949 Guntermann headed the sculpture class at the School of Crafts and Applied Arts in Münster , today's department of design at the Münster University of Applied Sciences .

Franz Guntermann died on February 15, 1963 in Münster, but was buried in the Laurentiusfriedhof in Essen-Steele. His house at Studtstrasse 31 in Münster is now used by the Wingolfsbund and is a listed building .

Awards

Following a successful art exhibition in Berlin in 1921, Guntermann was awarded the title of professor. The large medal of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich was awarded to him four times. He also received the Steeler Citizenship Plaque of Honor.

Works (excerpt)

• Bielefeld : Justitia statue in the regional court
• Bielefeld: The Bielefelder Feldgraue, war memorial, 1915
• Bielefeld: Sculptures in the Liebfrauenkirche (Bielefeld-Mitte)
• Dessau : Monument to the composer Julius Reubke
• Essen : Marien Altar in the St. Laurentius Church
• Food: Pietà in St. Mary's Church in Steele
• Essen: Works in the Steele City Garden
• Food: Pietá in the Church of St. Corpus Christi
• Cologne : larger than life wooden figure of the Man of Sorrows, completed in 1912, exhibited in 1914 in the “Bielefeld” showroom at the Werkbund exhibition in Cologne
• Münster : Building sculpture on his own house, Studtstrasse 31
• Werl , tomb of Hedwig Dransfeld , 1925

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  "The Bielefelder Feldgraue", war memorial (1915)

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  Hedwig Dransfeld's tomb , Werl 1925

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  "Odysseus", Steeler City Garden

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  War memorial 1914–18 with high relief "Mourning Mother", Steeler Stadtgarten

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  Fountain "350 Years of the Steele City Coat of Arms", unveiled on February 22, 1928, Steeler City Garden

Web links

Commons : Franz Guntermann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

• Guntermann, Franz . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 346 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1: A-K. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, DNB 453960286 , p. 614.
• Wilhelm Westecker: Artists of the Ruhr region . Hellweg Verlag, Essen 1954, p. 43 f .
• Erwin Dickhoff: Essen heads . Ed .: City of Essen - Historical Association for City and Monastery of Essen. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1231-1 , p. 127 .