Fridolin Dietsche

Fridolin Dietsche (born October 31, 1861 in Schönau in the Black Forest , † June 25, 1908 in Hamburg ) was a German sculptor who came from the Grand Duchy of Baden .

Life

The son of a master carpenter began his artistic career with a three-year training at the carving school in Furtwangen . From 1880 to 1884 he attended the arts and crafts school in Karlsruhe , then the one in Berlin , before studying for two years at the art academy there with Fritz Schaper from 1885 . This was followed by two years at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Wilhelm Rümann . In 1888 he returned to the Karlsruhe School of Applied Arts, where he worked as an assistant and teacher. From 1889 to 1894 he studied at the Art Academy in Karlsruhe as a master class student with Hermann Volz and then traveled to Paris and Italy to study . In 1898 Dietsche succeeded Adolf Heer as a professor of sculpture at the School of Applied Arts .

In the competition to create the figures on the facade of the new Freiburg town hall, he was able to prevail in 1898 against the Freiburg sculptor Gustav Adolf Knittel . Together with his student Wilhelm Merten (1879–1952), Dietsche created an image of Egino , the first Count of Freiburg . Another niche on the balcony in front of the council chamber was adorned with his statue of Duke Konrad von Zähringen , which was on display at the world exhibition in Paris that same year . It was melted down in World War II . The other two figures showed Duke Leopold III. of Austria and Karl Friedrich , the first Grand Duke of Baden . Four statues from the Freiburg Kaiserbrücke were also dismantled in 1942 and transported to Hamburg for melting. Two of them ( Maximilian I and Rudolf I ) were made by Dietsche, with the latter he was again supported by Merten. The other two were created by Julius Seitz between 1899 and 1900 . At the end of the war, the bronze figures were still intact, but in 1950 the Freiburg municipal council decided not to bring the statues back because of the high transport costs.

Between 1900 and 1901 Dietsche took part in the second competition to erect a Bismarck monument in Karlsruhe. After no winner had emerged from a first competition, it was advertised as the winner of the second competition, as its design was still described as the "relatively best". However, the monument committee later decided to have one of the three designs submitted by Karl Friedrich Moest carried out. This was justified, among other things, by the fact that Dietsche - in contrast to Moest, who was over 20 years older - could still create many large public works in his life. Moest finally died in 1923, Dietsche in 1908.

Shortly before his death, he was commissioned by Grand Duke Friedrich I to design a memorial for the Karlsruhe city founder, Margrave Karl Wilhelm , which was to replace the Karlsruhe pyramid on the market square . After the citizens of Karlsruhe were outraged about the planned removal of the pyramid, Dietsche created a design that combined the pyramid with a memorial. However, this was rejected. So he made the model of an independent fountain and equestrian monument, which was much more popular during an exhibition. Before he could implement this model, Dietsche died shortly afterwards in Hamburg while he was on the way to a medical examination in a seaside resort . Dietsche was single.

Works

Portrait medallion on the Bismarck monument on the Seebuck near Feldberg

Altar wall of the Christ Church in Karlsruhe

Statue of Bernhard II , St. Bernhard , Karlsruhe

• Feldberg: Portrait medallion Bismarck monument (1895–1896)
• Freiburg in Breisgau
  • Statues on the Kaiserstrasse Bridge (1899–1900)
  • Figures at the New Town Hall (1900)
  • Statuette Heinrich Hansjakob in front of the Augustinian Museum (before 1905)
• Karlsruhe:
  • Portrait bust of Wilhelm Nokk City History Collection Karlsruhe (1897)
  • Festival decoration Bismarck monument festival hall (1899)
  • Altar wall Christ Church (1900)
  • Building sculpture courtyard pharmacy (1900–1901)
  • Architectural sculpture on the balcony of Gasthaus Zum Moninger , the former main bar of the Moninger brewery (1900–1901)
  • Tin hoods of several advertising pillars (1901, attributed)
  • Portrait reliefs of Karl Friedrich Nebenius and Wilhelm Nokk in the auditorium of the Technical University (1903)
  • Model (1903) and execution (1906) Rathaus-Brunnen
  • Project memorial for Margrave Karl-Wilhelm (1905–1908)
  • August Buchenberger bronze relief in the main cemetery in Karlsruhe (1907, no longer preserved)
  • Gilded tomb Wilhelm Nokk made of bronze and granite there (1905)
  • Statue of Bernhard II on the tower facade of the Church of St. Bernhard (1901)
• Constancy
  • Monument to Konstantin Handloser , “Royal Music Director and Head of the 114 Regimental Music 1872–1905” ( fec. ) 1907

literature

• Various . In: Heinz Schmitt (ed.): Monuments, fountains and free sculptures in Karlsruhe 1715–1945 . 2nd Edition. tape 7 . Karlsruhe 1989, ISBN 3-7617-0264-7 , pp. 686 (publications of the Karlsruhe City Archives).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ matrikel AdBK Munich: 00,419 Fridolin Dietsche , access on 20 November of 2010.
2. ↑ Ute Scherb: We get the monuments we deserve. Freiburg monuments in the 19th and 20th centuries. (= Publications from the archive of the city of Freiburg im Breisgau. Volume 36). Freiburg 2005, ISBN 3-923272-31-6 , p. 88 f.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Wilhelm Merten  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on uniklinik-freiburg.de, accessed on November 20, 2010  
4. ^ Karl Schmid, Hans Schadek: The Zähringer. Volume 2: Impulse and Effect. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1986, ISBN 3-7995-7041-1 , p. 368 f.
5. ↑ Ute Scherb: We get the monuments we deserve. Freiburg monuments in the 19th and 20th centuries. from: Ulrich P. Ecker, Christiane Pfanz-Sponagel, Hans-Peter Widmann (eds.): Publications from the archive of the city of Freiburg im Breisgau. , 2005, p. 89.
6. ↑ Hans Sigmund: Freiburg: Once flanked by bronze emperors. In: Badische Zeitung of September 15, 2008, accessed July 31, 2009.
7. ↑ Schmitt, p. 420.
8. ↑ Albert Herzog: Your happy eyes: a Karlsruhe journalist tells from his life. Literarian Society, Karlsruhe 2008, ISBN 978-3-88190-500-8 , p. 167 f., Preview in the Google book search
9. ↑ Death certificate on anchestry.de (cannot be viewed with a free user account)
10. ^ Database of cultural monuments: metal hood advertising pillars. In: karlsruhe.de. Retrieved December 22, 2018 . 
11. ↑ ^{a b} Anett Beckmann: Mental history and aesthetic investigations of the sculptural tombs of the Karlsruhe main cemetery. KIT Scientific Publishing, Karlsruhe 2006, ISBN 978-3-86644-032-6 , p. 169, preview in the Google book search
12. ↑ Werner Wolf-Holzäpfel: The architect Max Meckel 1847-1910. Studies on the architecture and church building of historicism in Germany . Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2000, ISBN 3-933784-62-X , p. 192 .

Web links

Commons : Fridolin Dietsche  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Karlsruhe: city history. Look into the story No. 97 of December 14, 2012: Biography Fridolin Dietsche