Fritz Paul Zimmer
Fritz Paul Zimmer (* 1895 in Germany ; † March 24, 1975 in Atlanta , Georgia ) was a German-American sculptor, architect and designer.
Life
Fritz Paul Zimmer was born in Germany in 1895 and studied at the Stuttgart Art Academy , where he was an assistant teacher for drawing and sculpture and won a gold medal. He later attended the Württemberg State School of Applied Arts and the Munich Art Academy .
As a result, he went to the State Opera in Stuttgart , where he worked as a studio assistant, director, costume designer and set designer and then taught at the “Urania Commercial Art School” in Zurich . He studied architecture in Rome , Florence and Ravenna .
Together with his wife Hermine, nee Leibel, he went to the USA in 1925, where he taught as a professor of fine and applied arts at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, Georgia from 1930 to 1934 . In 1932 he became an American citizen.
During the years in America he also worked as an interior designer and designed many interiors for clients in Buckhead. Also designed for the Paterson Funeral Home and furnished numerous churches and public buildings across Georgia.
Works
- Zeppelin stone in Echterdingen , bronze relief Graf Zeppelin (in memory of the landing on August 5th, 1908)
- Attacking bull
- Dancer, bronze 43 cm
- Reliefs and busts of soldiers from the First World War
- Roe deer, bronze, 1926, installed in Grugapark and another cast in the “Atlanta Botanical Garden” on loan from the High Museum of Art
- Small äsendes deer, bronze, multiple detectable and in div. Auction houses some with FP rooms and Bernhard Butzke signed
- The last supper at "Westview Cemetery" in Atlanta
literature
- A Retrospective of the Sculpture and Drawings of Fritz P. Zimmer: April 29-May 20, 1973 . Oglethorpe University Art Gallery, 1973.
- The National Cyclopaedia of American biography . Volume 59, 1980, p. 125.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Oglethorpe University Bulletin June 1933, p. 26 ; The South in Black and White. The Graphic Works of James E. Routh Jr., 1939-1946 . 2009, p. 15.
- ↑ Chad Carlson, Buckhead Heritage Society; January 6, 2018, website , accessed October 30, 2018.
- ↑ Kunstauktionshaus Schloss Ahlden May 26, 2018, lot 157093.
- ↑ Ultimate Magazine , March-April 2017, V4 / A2, p. 24 .
- ↑ Discussion: Sculptures in the Grugapark: Is “Fritz Paul Zimmer” a pseudonym for “Bernhard Butzke”?
- ↑ Traci Rylands: "Adventures in Cemetery Hopping" , accessed October 30, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zimmer, Fritz Paul |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zimmer, Fritz; Zimmer, Fritz P. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American sculptor, architect and designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Germany |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 24, 1975 |
| Place of death | Atlanta |