Frida Christaller

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Frida Christaller (born August 21, 1898 in Stuttgart ; † October 8, 1991 ) was a German sculptor who was best known for her Christmas cribs .

life and work

The daughter of Professor Paul Gottfried Christaller first studied at the Württemberg School of Applied Arts in Stuttgart. From 1925 to 1930 she studied at the Württemberg Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart with the sculptor Ludwig Habich . From 1930 she worked in her own studio in the Heusteigviertel in Stuttgart. The artist, who came from a Protestant family, was influenced by the pietistic union of the Köngener and was enthusiastic about the peace movement and - like her father - all her life for the planned language Esperanto .

Frida Christaller's nativity scenes made of clay or wood can be found in Protestant churches in her native Württemberg. In addition to the holy family and shepherds from the Christmas story, she often added a group of children to the cribs. The figures of the Great Altar Crib , created in 1938 for the Markuskirche in Stuttgart, were sold in smaller versions in the arts and crafts trade for a long time and were popular in Protestant rectories and private households.

In addition to her work as a sculptor, she also created silhouettes, such as the illustrations for the pacifist children's book Pazifistische Kinderwelt by Otto Volkart and Anni Roettcher-Mertens (Stuttgart 1919).

Works

(Selection)

  • 3rd prize in the competition for the new market fountain in Stuttgart (with the architect Erich Lenwerder), 1934
  • Large altar crib of the Markuskirche , Stuttgart, 1938
  • Nativity scene of the Evangelical Church, Laupheim , 1948
  • Nativity scene in the Haigstkirche, Stuttgart, 1950
  • two designs for an Esperanto monument in Gothenburg, 1955
  • Nativity scene of the Martinskirche, Freudenstadt
  • Nativity scene of the Holy Trinity Church, Leutkirch im Allgäu
  • Nativity scene of the Evangelical City Church , Ravensburg
  • Small clay nativity scene
  • Portrait relief Helene Christaller

literature

  • Bernhard Rüth, Ingeborg Rüth: Swabian-Alemannic nativity book. Christmas cribs in Baden-Württemberg and Bavarian Swabia . Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2014, ISBN 3-89870-546-3 , especially p. 202
  • Margarethe Schmid: Frida Christaller (1898-1991) . In: "... come to the crib" Evangelical Christmas traditions in transition . (= Catalogs and writings of the regional church museum; 13). Landeskirchliches Museum, Ludwigsburg 2005, pp. 82–87
  • Eva Schury: Frida Christaller. Ascetic - sculptor - pacifist . In: Theologinnenkonvent Stuttgart (Hrsg.): Detected… Women's history in Stuttgart parishes . TVT-Medienverlag, Tübingen 1999, ISBN 3-929128-19-5 , pp. 93-107
  • Christaller, Frida . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 19, Saur, Munich a. a. 1998, ISBN 3-598-22759-0 , p. 15.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Description of the Paul Gottfried Christaller estate ( memento of the original from December 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the Austrian National Library  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.onb.ac.at
  2. ^ Peter Weyrauch: The sculptor Ludwig Habich (1872-1949) . (= Sources and research on Hessian history; 77). Hessian Historical Commission, Darmstadt 1990, ISBN 3-88443-166-8 , p. 25
  3. ↑ Rüth, p. 202
  4. ↑ 1913: Those who swam against the current. Esperanto Stuttgart remembers its roots in the peace movement
  5. ↑ Rüth, p. 202
  6. ↑ Catalog entry of the DNB
  7. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung, Volume 54 (1934), p. 330
  8. ^ Diana Hofmann: The currency reform almost thwarted the purchase of cribs. God becomes man: In 1948 the Protestant parish of Laupheim acquired the figures . In: Schwäbische Zeitung, December 29, 2012, without access restrictions: Press review of the Evangelical Church District Biberach
  9. ↑ http://www.stiftung-haigstkirche.de/geschichte.html
  10. ↑ Community letter of the Martinsgemeinde Freudenstadt , December 2007 / January 2008, p. 2 with illustration ( PDF )
  11. ↑ Irene Palm: From the Son of God and Children of Man. The clay nativity scene by Frida Christaller in the Evangelical City Church of Ravensburg . In: Christmas time in the Ravensburg district . (= Time symbol ; 9). Kreissparkasse Ravensburg, Ravensburg 2012, p. 43 f.
  12. ↑ Illustration see Facebook page of the Evangelical City Church Ravensburg
  13. ↑ Illustration in Our Church. Newspaper of the Protestant Deaf , 53rd year 2007, issue 12, p. 6 ( PDF )
  14. ↑ Figure: https://www.ecse.rpi.edu/~schubert/Christaller/Pictures/P-Helene-Christaller--Relief.jpg
personal data
SURNAME Christaller, Frida
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 1991