Fritz Koelle

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Koelle: The Walzmeister , bronze. Location: BBZ St. Ingbert
The block waltz, Munich
The Isarflößer, Munich
The Saarbergmann, Landsweiler speeches

Fritz Koelle (born March 10, 1895 in Augsburg , † August 4, 1953 in Probstzella on the Munich-Berlin interzone train) was a German sculptor.

Life

Typical of Koelle's early work are his worker sculptures, including a. The miner in front of the driveway , the block waltz or blast furnace worker .

Because of his “Bolshevik conception of art”, a prison sentence was applied for in the Dachau concentration camp in 1934 . A professorship previously promised at the Munich Academy was rejected by the state. After a few days of Gestapo interrogation, the artist was finally released from prison and even received state commissions, B. the order for the production of a Horst Wessel bust. He also took part in the GDK , for example in 1937 with the Saarbergmann with miner's lamp and in 1942 with Der Steinbrecher .

Immediately after the end of the war, Koelle's artistic work in the Nazi state was condemned in some media. Even now his attempts to obtain a professorship fail. According to his critics, his works were too conform and too adapted to the Nazi regime's understanding of art.

In 1946 Koelle was recognized as a politically persecuted person. In 1950 the artist finally received a professorship at the University of Applied Arts in Berlin-Weißensee .

The sculpture Inferno , which was planned as a memorial for the Dachau concentration camp memorial in 1946, is particularly impressive and shocking , but it was considered too cruel and therefore rejected. Koelle then made another plastic concentration camp inmate , which was placed in front of the crematorium of the Dachau concentration camp.

Koelle was married to the painter Elisabeth Koelle-Karmann .

Fritz-Koelle-Straße in Augsburg is named after him.

Works (selection)

  • 1914 - lion (bronze)
  • 1917 - girl nude (plaster)
  • 1920 - bust of a girl (terracotta)
  • 1920 - crouching girl (stone)
  • 1921 - portrait bust of his father (terracotta)
  • 1923 - Nude girl (bronze)
  • 1924 - portrait bust R. Schwarz (bronze)
  • 1924 - self-portrait (bronze bust)
  • 1925 - working-class child (bronze)
  • 1926 - iron rolling worker (plaster)
  • 1935 - Saar commemorative coin
  • 1937 - Der Saarbergmann, Grube Reden , colloquially: Redener Hannes
  • 1939 - The Isarflößer (bronze), Munich

estate

The written estate is in the archive for fine arts in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum .

literature

  • Koelle, Fritz . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 21 : Knip – Kruger . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 137 .
  • Birgit Jooss : Commuters between West and East. The Moscow travel book by the sculptor Fritz Koelle. In: Heinz Peter Brogiato, Klaus-Peter Kiedel (Hrsg.): Research - Travel - Discover. Living worlds in the archives of the Leibniz Association. Halle 2011, pp. 152–153.
  • Claus Pese: More than just art. The archive for fine arts in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum. Ostfildern-Ruit 1998, pp. 63–66, 83 ( Cultural and historical walks in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum. Volume 2).
  • Eva-M. Pasche: Fritz Koelle - the designer of the worker - monograph and catalog raisonné. Verlag Glückauf, Essen 2001, ISBN 3-7739-1284-6 .
  • Monika Maier-Speicher, Dieter Wirth: Fritz Koelle and the miner from the Saar. Exhibition catalog. St. Ingbert 2003, ISBN 3-9807001-5-1 .
  • Short biography for:  Koelle, Fritz . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

Commons : Fritz Koelle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Elisabeth-Koelle-Karmann. ( Memento from March 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) In: Saarland-Lexikon.
  2. ↑ Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (ed.): Official Gazette of the Reichsbahndirektion Mainz of February 23, 1935, No. 9. Announcement No. 95, p. 35.
personal data
SURNAME Koelle, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH 4th August 1953
Place of death Probstzella