Fried howler
Friedrich (Fried) Maximilian Heuler (born May 23, 1889 in Albertshausen , today part of Bad Kissingen , † September 27, 1959 in Würzburg ) was a German sculptor and graphic artist .
Life
( Boxberger-Neumann monument from 1938 in the rose garden , Bad Kissingen)
He came from an old family of teachers and was born the seventh child of teacher Valentin Heuler (1848-1922) and his wife Regina Statt (1849-1933) in the school and teacher's house in Albertshausen, where he also attended elementary school. In 1901 the father was promoted to main teacher and transferred to Bütthard near Ochsenfurt . For the convinced teacher it was quite natural that his son Fried, like his two older brothers, should also become a teacher. Therefore, he reluctantly attended the preparatory school in Haßfurt from 1906 , but failed in the second year of study and instead began an apprenticeship as a sculptor in 1908 with Arthur Schleglmünig (1863–1953) in Würzburg , who had been apprenticed to Michael Arnold in Kissingen . Here, Heuler and the Würzburg sculptor Emy Roeder acquired important basic skills. From 1909 to 1911 he attended the municipal trade school in Würzburg and the Munich art academy . The training was followed by study trips to Florence , Marseille , Rome , Brussels , Berlin , Paris and London . Auguste Rodin and Aristide Maillol now became his most important artistic models. Shortly before the outbreak of World War I , he went on a study trip to southern Russia in 1914.
When the First World War broke out , Fried Heuler had to end his artist tour and was a soldier until the end of the war. Afterwards he worked as a freelance sculptor in Würzburg from 1919, but soon had to leave the house of his father-in-law, the bookbinder Vervier in Spiegelstraße, due to lack of space and settled in Veitshöchheim , where he kept his main residence until his death. From the 1920s he headed the modeling class of the crafts school of the "Polytechnisches Zentralverein" and created the war memorials in Ochsenfurt , Haßfurt and Würzburg until 1933. He became known beyond Germany for the tomb created in 1931 for the fallen soldiers of the First World War in Würzburg. During the time of National Socialism in 1934 it was said about this monument:
- There may be many a memorial for favor, however artistically good, it has to take a back seat because the idea here is so strong and haunting that one has to ask oneself whether this is the only strongest form for this object. All individual feeling is missing here, the camaraderie has found a worthy representation. Here not a single figure collapses in mourning, here the last heavy duty is done.
With the Florian Geyer memorial on the fortress, a bust of Hitler and a bust of Gauleiter Otto Hellmuth , Heuler also remained active in the Third Reich , but without becoming a party member. Heuler avoided the affixing of party symbols in his works on behalf of the public. In 1938 he designed the “Mainfranken” gate of the VW works in a completely apolitical, rather humanistic way , with allegories of the river god Moenus and Franconia , the patroness of Franconia .
In World War II howler was a soldier again, but was due to his age no longer on the front, but only as a war correspondent used. Here he was able to resume his old artistic contacts. Most recently, at the age of 55, he was employed as a laborer at customs.
After the war in 1945, as a non-party member, he was immediately appointed to a commission for the reconstruction of Würzburg. In 1949 he received the order for the tomb of Bishop Matthias Ehrenfried and in 1954 for the memorial in memory of the more than 5000 victims of the bomb attack on Würzburg on March 16, 1945 , which stands in front of the main cemetery in the middle of the mass graves. His Postreiter from 1958 on Paradeplatz in Würzburg in front of the former post office is also known.
After he was diagnosed with stomach cancer, Heuler moved to his daughter in Würzburg in 1958. There he died in great honor on September 27, 1959. On his grave in the main cemetery in Würzburg there is a tombstone he made himself with a representation of the resurrection of Jesus Christ .
There were numerous legends circulating about howlers, most of which he had created himself. His friends knew that he often exaggerated excessively and therefore referred to his stories as "cryiads" without taking them seriously.
Works (selection)
Heuler made a variety of plaques , portrait busts, stone and bronze sculptures . In addition to nudes and figurative representations, he mainly created sculptures on Christian and allegorical themes. Its memorials are well known. He designed a commemorative plaque in the Florian Geyer Memorial Hall of the Marienberg Fortress and a bust of Gauleiter Otto Hellmuth acquired from the former municipal gallery in Würzburg . Heuler also dealt with graphics and painting.
Since 1930, the memorial stone created by Heuler in the form of a stylized tumba in the Lusamgärtchen of the Würzburg Neumünster has been commemorating the minstrel Walther von der Vogelweide on his grave. In addition, the artist created the sculpture of the Scholastica Altar in the Münsterschwarzach monastery church .
Honors
In 1954, Heuler received the silver city plaque he designed for the city of Würzburg, and he was appointed to the art committee of the Munich artists' cooperative by the Bavarian Ministry of Culture . On the occasion of his 60th birthday in 1949, the "Association of Artists in Lower Franconia" organized a solo exhibition of his works in the Wenceslas Hall of the Würzburg town hall. In 1989 the "Städtische Galerie Würzburg" organized a memorial exhibition. In Bad Kissingen-Albertshausen there has been Fried-Heuler-Straße, named after him, since 1974 .
In 1997, a memorial created by Julian Walter, commissioned by the city of Bad Kissingen, was erected in his birthplace Albertshausen on the site of the demolished schoolhouse.
On the occasion of his 120th birthday and the 50th anniversary of his death, the district and city of Bad Kissingen organized a commemorative exhibition in the district office in autumn 2009.
Exhibitions (selection)
- 2009 , 25.09.-06.11., Bad Kissingen: Fried Heuler. Sculpture models drawings . Joint exhibition by the district and city of Bad Kissingen on the 50th anniversary of the death of the Lower Franconian sculptor in the foyer of the Bad Kissingen district office
Individual evidence
- ^ Die Form : Zeitschrift für gestaltende Arbeit , 9th year, issue 1, January 1934, p. 8
- ^ Industrial architecture of the Nazi regime: the Volkswagen factory
- ↑ Peter Weidisch: Würzburg in the "Third Reich". In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 196-289 and 1271-1290; here: p. 260.
literature
- Lieselotte Klemmer: Howler, Fried. In: Karl Bosl (ed.): Bosls Bavarian biography. Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0792-2 , p. 344 ( digitized version ).
- Werner Eberth : Fried Heuler. Sculptor in Bad Kissingen and Würzburg . In: Peter Weidisch, Thomas Ahnert (Hrsg.): 1200 years Bad Kissingen (801-2001). Facets of a city's history . Festschrift for the anniversary year and book accompanying the exhibition. Verlag TA Schachenmayer, Bad Kissingen 2001, ISBN 3-929278-16-2
- Fritz Mertens: Fried Heuler (1889–1959) and Gertraud Rostosky (1876–1959) , obituary, in: Mainfränkisches Jahrbuch für Geschichte und Kunst , Volume 12, Page 315, Würzburg 1960
- Werner Eberth: Talented and successful: the sculptor Fried Heuler , in: Saale-Zeitung of October 21, 2009
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Howler, Fried |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Howler, Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 23, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Albertshausen , today part of Bad Kissingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 27, 1959 |
| Place of death | Wurzburg |