Franz Lind

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Ungstein War Memorial, 1957

Franz Lind (born February 4, 1900 in Freinsheim , † December 18, 1967 , ibid) was a German sculptor and painter .

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Lind began his sculptural training at the Mannheim Evening Academy . From 1922 to 1926 he attended the private sculpture class of the later Professor Josef Henselmann in Munich , 1926–1928 he studied with Professor Valmore Gemignani (1879–1958) at the Florence Art Academy .

In 1928 he returned home and worked in the region, interrupted by further study trips to Switzerland and Italy. During this creative period the war memorials in Bobenheim am Rhein and in Ellerstadt , the facade figure “Dear Home” , in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse and the altar of the Prot. Church Freinsheim were created.

Franz Lind took part in the Second World War as a soldier . After his return he stayed in Freinsheim and worked there again as a sculptor. During this time he made several monuments, e.g. B. in Beindersheim , in Böhl , in Haßloch , in Bad Dürkheim and in Ungstein . In Ludwigshafen he created the facade reliefs of the Lukaskirche in 1960, in Münchweiler an der Rodalb in 1961 a Paul relief on the bell tower of the Ev. Church.

In addition, he also devoted himself to oil painting.

Franz-Lind-Straße was named after him in his birthplace Freinsheim.

Works

War memorial, Ellerstadt, 1936
Façade figure, 1936, Neustadt, Friedrich-Ebert-Str. 38

literature

  • Viktor Carl: Lexicon of Palatinate Personalities , Hennig Verlag, Edenkoben, 2004, ISBN 3-9804668-5-X , p. 529.
  • Wolfgang Werner: The architect Heinrich Müller and the Bavarian Post Building School in the Palatinate , KIT Scientific Publishing, 2012, p. 85, ISBN 3866447906 ; (Digital scan)
  • Elfriede Brücker: The Grumpy Schaffer: Memories of the Freinsheim artist Franz Lind (1900–1967) , in: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Landkreis Bad Dürkheim , Volume 18, 2000, pp. 267–269, (find the way)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Italian website on Valmore Gemignani
  2. ↑ PDF to the Prot. Church in Freinsheim
  3. ↑ Website of the Pauluskirche Münchweiler
personal data
SURNAME Lind, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and painter
DATE OF BIRTH 4th February 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Freinsheim
DATE OF DEATH 18th December 1967
Place of death Freinsheim