Fritz Korter

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The 1914-18 war memorial
in Dahn
Neustadt / Weinstrasse, Friedrich-Ebert-Str. 44, group of figures "Trust in God" , 1936
The torch fountain
in Kaiserslautern

Fritz Korter (born March 4, 1892 in Kaiserslautern , † June 7, 1945 in Worms ) was a German sculptor .

Live and act

Korter was a student of Erwin Kurz (1857-1931) at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . In addition to tombs in the Kaiserslauter cemetery, he created, among other things, the war memorial 1914-18 on the market square in Dahn , in Kaiserslautern in 1925 the pair of horse tamers (of which only one copy still exists) in today 's Volkspark , 1926-1928 an artificial stone sculpture in the inner courtyard of the rotunda and in 1939 the torch fountain .

Selection of works

  • Dahn (Pfalz)
    war memorial 1914-18, on the market square
  • Kaiserslautern
    • Horse tamers couple, in today's Volkspark (1925)
    • Artificial stone fountain sculpture in the inner courtyard of the rotunda (1926–1928)
    • Fackelwoog fountain (today Fackelbrunnen), on the torch ring (1939)
  • Neustadt an der Weinstrasse
    • Friedrich-Ebert-Str. 44, staircase tower, group of figures "Trust in God", signed in the base (1936)
  • Zweibrücken
    regimental war memorial 1914-18 of the Kgl. Bayer. 22nd Infantry Regiment 'Fürst Wilhelm von Hohenzollern' (unveiled 1932)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death book registry office Worms 1945, No. 909. "Cause of death exhaustion."
  2. ↑ Kaiserslautern website on Fritz Korter
  3. ^ Department of Architecture at the FH Kaiserslautern: A selection of his projects on Hermann-Hussong.de, last accessed on January 26, 2012.
  4. ↑ Informational directory of the cultural monuments in Kaiserslautern (PDF file; 1.33 MB) p. 7, November 29, 2011.

literature

  • Korter, Fritz . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 100 .

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Korter, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaiserslautern
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 1945
Place of death Worms