Fritz Herrfurth

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Fritz Herrfurth (* 1899 in Bonn ; † August 28, 1944 in Sarajevo ) was a German painter , sculptor and architect in Bad Dürkheim .

Life

The house of Fritz Herrfurth Im Schreck in Bad Dürkheim.

Fritz Herrfurth was born in Bonn in 1899 as the son of a master bookbinder and his wife, but came to Bad Dürkheim as a child. He started his apprenticeship with the Neustadt sculptor J. W. Steger, which he completed in 1915 as a journeyman with a very good exam result. From 1920 to 1921 he attended the arts and crafts school in Munich. In 1928 he settled in Bad Dürkheim at Schreck 22 and worked from then on as a freelance painter, sculptor and architect. During the Second World War , the Wehrmacht commanded him to reconstruct destroyed historical buildings. In 1944 he was transferred to the hospital in Sarajevo as an art therapist . There he died as a result of an infection with the amoebic dysentery , which he had contracted in the hospital. Herrfurth left behind his wife Anna, geb. Back, and a son, Heinz, who died on the Eastern Front towards the end of the war.

A member of the 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division "Prinz Eugen", recognizable by the Odals rune on the right collar tab, presents the grave cross for Fritz Herrfurth's freshly laid grave in or near Sarajevo.

Works

War memorial at the old cemetery in Dannstadt.
Inscription on the base of the Dannstadt war memorial.
Draft drawing for the Dannstadt war memorial (detail). Storage location: Archives of the Dannstadt-Schauernheim Association.

Fritz Herrfurth created a number of large-scale sculptures, primarily war memorials, which to this day characterize public space, especially in the Vorderpfalz between Bad Dürkheim, Neustadt and Ludwigshafen.

  • Memorial of the Realschule and Progymnasium in Bad Dürkheim for their pupils who died in the First World War.
  • War memorial in Grethen , Im Röhrich 2.
  • War memorial at the old cemetery in the Dannstadt district of the Dannstadt-Schauernheim community (1929)
  • War memorial in the Schauernheim district on the cemetery (1929)
  • War memorial in Spirkelbach .
  • Sculptural commissioned execution of a war memorial in Ludwigshafen-Rheingönheim based on a design by the Staudinger brothers in Berlin (destroyed in 1945 during the war).

In the spa park and in the rest of the city of Bad Dürkheim there are still several fountain sculptures and other statues, such as a statue of a woman carrying grapes on a plate, in the spa park near the Café Traubenkur.

Some of his paintings as well as his journeyman's certificate are in the holdings of the Bad Dürkheim City Museum in the Haus Catoir cultural center. In addition, he created small sculptures (e.g. portrait busts), stage sets, designed residential buildings and worked for several army construction offices.

literature

  • War memorials in the Palatinate. In loyalty to home. 1914/1918. Ludwigshafen am Rhein 1934.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The information on Herrfurth's curriculum vitae is based on written information from Ms. Britta Hallmann-Preuß, head of the Bad Dürkheim City Museum, as well as verbal information from Fritz Herrfurth's heirs.
  2. ↑ A number of his monuments are listed in War Memorials, pp. 13, 35, 61, 153, 165 with pictures.
  3. ↑ Sculpture in the Bad Dürkheimer Kurpark , accessed on March 23, 2020. - Sculpture in the Kurpark , accessed on March 23, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Herrfurth, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, sculptor and architect
DATE OF BIRTH 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1944
Place of death Sarajevo