Franziska Kobell

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Franziska Kobell (* in the 19th or 20th century; † in the 20th or 21st century) was a German calligrapher .

Life and works

Franziska Kobell was a student, long-term employee and finally also the successor of Anna Simons , who worked for the Bremen press . In 1929 the congratulatory address of the Görres Society for private lecturer Dr. Finke published, which Franziska Kobell had written.

From 1939 she worked permanently with Gerdy Troost and Frieda Thiersch . Gerdy Troost managed, among other things, the production of award certificates for knight's crosses in the Third Reich . Franziska Kobell wrote the texts by hand, the cassettes and folders were made by Frieda Thiersch. Troost also supplied objects such as jewelery boxes, telephone book chests and similar items to those in power. She also worked with Franz and Hermann Wandinger . For the medal jewelry, among other things, diamonds from Dutch spoils were used. Until March 1945, Thiersch, Kobell and the Wandinger brothers produced their certificates, etc.

On the website of an auction house you can read about the objects that they are “among the absolute highlights of bookbinding. No country in the world before or after the time of the Third Reich ever invested a comparable amount of effort in designing the award certificates for its highest awards. The simplicity of the portable award, the Iron Cross designed by the most important German architect of classicism , the great Karl Friedrich Schinkel , in 1813 , forms a striking contrast with a high level of meaning. ”Many certificates could no longer be handed over to the recipients of the Knight's Cross. These unsigned specimens were captured by the Allies at the end of the war. The cassette for the German National Prize for Art and Science , which Hitler donated in 1937 in protest against the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Carl von Ossietzky , also came from Thiersch and Kobell .

Little is known about Franziska Kobell's life. She had a brother whose photograph was among Eva Braun's memorabilia of her friend Herta Schneider.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Masters and masterpieces of the bookbinding art , p. 15 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  2. ↑ The Christian Art; Monthly for all areas of Christian art and art history . 1929, p. 55 ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  3. ↑ Haus der Kunst, Munich , p. 130 ( limited preview in Google book search)
  4. ↑ Die Ritterkreuztraeger, 1939-1945 , p. 406 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  5. ↑ Timo Nüßlein, Gerdy Troost. Interior designer (1904–2003) , at: www.rheinische-geschichte.lvr.de
  6. ↑ Order of War. Knight's Cross. With Jewish diamonds , in: Der Spiegel 45, November 5, 1958, p. 34 ( digitized version )
  7. ↑ GERMAN REICH 1933 - 1945 - LUFTWAFFE: Large award document for the oak leaves with swords for the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross to the fighter pilot Captain Gordon Gollob , on: lot-tissimo.com
  8. ↑ Jörg Nimmergut, Determination of authenticity through material analysis: Der Stern des Nationalpreis für Kunst und Wissenschaft (1937–1938) , in: Order and Decoration 11, No. 62, August 2011, pp. 182–189, here p. 183 ( digitized version )
  9. ↑ Eva Braun - Memorabilia to her friend Herta Schneider , on: www.the-saleroom.com
personal data
SURNAME Kobell, Franziska
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German calligrapher
DATE OF BIRTH 19th century or 20th century
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century