Friedrich Schult

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Friedrich Johann Heinrich Emil Adolf Wilhelm Schult (born February 18, 1889 in Schwerin ; † June 23, 1978 in Güstrow ) was a German educator, poet, painter and graphic artist.

Life

Friedrich Schult, who had the Low German nickname Lütten-Schult because of his small height , was the son of gendarme Friedrich Johann Heinrich Schult and his wife Sophie Schult, née. Dahl (1862-1944). His grandparents lived in Warlow . His father died in 1889; his mother moved with him first to Ludwigslust and then in 1899 to Schwerin, where she married the sculptor Conrad Paetow (from whom she divorced in 1915). Paetow encouraged Schult's interest in art and literature. Friedrich Schult attended the civil and trade school in Schwerin, and from autumn 1904, the teacher training college Neukloster (now complex Sehschwachenschule and the state institution for the blind ). After graduating in August 1909, he worked as a teacher in Wittenförden until 1912 .

Realgymnasium Güstrow, today John Brinckman Gymnasium

From September 1912 he studied at the Hamburg School of Applied Arts , especially with Julius Wohlers (1867–1953). At Easter 1914 he came as a drawing teacher at the Reform Realgymnasium Güstrow, which was founded in 1902 and was called the John Brinckman School from 1934 . On July 2, 1914, he met Ernst Barlach for the first time , from which a friendship developed. Since he was considered unfit and indispensable for military service in 1914, he was able to continue teaching in Güstrow.

In 1916 he married Elisabeth, b. Meyer (1894–1945), the daughter of the district forester Max Meyer from the Eichhof Forsthof, Kuhstorf municipality . The couple has two children: Margarethe (* 1916) and Friedrich Ernst (* 1918). In 1921 Barlach's feelings for Elisabeth caused a crisis of friendship between Barlach and Schult.

In addition to his school service, Schult produced private prints and commercial graphics and was honorary museum director of the newly established museum of local history, which also took over the important old inventory of the library of the cathedral school in Güstrow . In 1922 he designed the Güstrow emergency money notes; The appearance of the title pages of the Mecklenburg monthly magazine as well as the publishing house logo of the Hinstorff Verlag came from him. A brochure from 1932 lists nine self-published prints.

Schult's relationship with Barlach became friendly again. In 1927, Schult Barlach defended against attacks on his Güstrow memorial in the Mecklenburg monthly magazine . On Barlach's 60th birthday, Schult published a first bibliography of Barlach's dramatic, epic and graphic works. In conversations with one another, Barlach explained to him: "Every art requires two: one who makes it and one who needs it."

Atelierhaus am Heidberg (1980)

After Barlach's death on October 24, 1938, Schult helped with the funeral services and the first work on the estate. Worrying about Barlach's estate now became his life's work. Together with Hermann F. Reemtsma , Barlach's cousin Karl Barlach , Oberregierungsrat Friedrich Droß and Pastor Johannes Schwartzkopff, he was a member of the estate commission headed by Bernhard A. Böhmer as managing director. During the Second World War he recorded the works of Barlach stored in the Atelierhaus am Heidberg. At the end of the day he was involved in Güstrow's surrender to the Soviet Army without a fight. Immediately after the end of the war, Schult rescued Barlach's works of art from the studio house that had been requisitioned by Soviet soldiers. In October he organized the first Barlach exhibition together with the Rostock City Museum.

In 1947, Schult completely gave up his teaching post, from which he had already taken a leave of absence in 1945, moved to the now vacant atelier on Heidberg as custodian and devoted himself entirely to Ernst Barlach's works. On November 3, 1947, he married the lawyer Erika, geb. Schuberth (* 1903). On behalf of the German Academy of the Arts , he worked out the Barlach catalog raisonné in the following years , which appeared in three volumes in 1958 (graphics), 1960 (sculpture) and 1971 (drawings).

His own estate is kept in the Ernst Barlach Foundation in Güstrow and in the Schwerin State Main Archive.

memory

Friedrich Schult's grave with Barlach sculpture in the Güstrow cemetery

The Friedrich-Schult-Weg in Güstrow, where the Barlach memorial Gertrudenkapelle is located, is named after Friedrich Schult .

Works

  • The stars are far. AR Meyer, Berlin-Wilmersdorf 1923.
  • The Güstrow Cathedral. Michaal, Güstrow around 1930.
  • The Kerstings in Güstrow. Guestrow 1932.
  • Early Low German cabinet: for Richard Wossidlo . Vienna 1933
  • The stars are far. Verlag der Blätter fd Dichtung, Hamburg around 1937.
  • Early Low German cabinet. Ellermann, Hamburg 1938.
  • Anecdotes. Berlin 1938. (The book friend's rides in Blue 16)
  • Mecklenburg anecdotes. Opitz, Güstrow 1938.
  • Barlach in conversation. Ratsdruckerei, Güstrow 1939-
  • Origin and landscape. Insel-Verlag, Leipzig 1943.
  • Origin and landscape. Insel-Verlag, Wiesbaden et al. 1947.
  • Barlach in conversation. Insel-Verlag, Wiesbaden 1948.
  • Leaning over a sleeper. Sichowsky, Hamburg 1949.
  • Ernst Barlach: Catalog raisonné. Hauswedell, Hamburg 1958-
Volume 1: The sculptural work. 1960. (reprinted 1997)
Volume 2: The graphic work. 1958. (Reprinted 1997)
Volume 3: Catalog of the drawings. 1971.
  • Give yourself out of hands: poems. VOB Union Verlag, Berlin 1965.
  • Dance of death. Grilling press, Hamburg 1967.
  • Little prose. Hinstorff, Rostock 1966.
  • Barlach in conversation. 1st edition. the new edition. Insel-Verlag, Leipzig 1985; 3rd edition 1989, ISBN 978-3-7351-0081-8 .

literature

  • Tom Crepon : Friedrich Schult. Friend Ernst Barlach. Demmler, Schwerin 1997, ISBN 3-910150-37-3 .
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 9155-9156 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Crepon: Friedrich Schult. Friend Ernst Barlach. 1997, p. 105.
  2. ^ Friedrich Schult: Ernst Barlach: The memorial for the fallen in Güstrow Cathedral. In: Mecklenburgische Monatshefte, magazine for the care of native art and art , 3 (1927), p. 365.
  3. ^ Kunstverein Zwickau eV: history and concerns ; accessed on August 3, 2020
  4. ^ Crepon: Friedrich Schult. Friend Ernst Barlach. 1997, p. 134.
  5. ↑ Bernfried Lichtnau (ed.): Fine arts in Mecklenburg and Pomerania from 1880 to 1950: Ernst Barlach - The catalogs of works. , Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2011, p. 454 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  6. ↑ See the illustration in Crepon: Friedrich Schult. Friend Ernst Barlach. 1997, pp. 154-169.
personal data
SURNAME Schult, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schult, Friedrich Johann Heinrich Emil Adolf Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pedagogue, poet, painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 1978
Place of death Guestrow