Fritz Röll

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Sandal ties in 1909, on the Lietzensee

Fritz Röll (born March 16, 1879 in Kaltennordheim / Rhön ; † August 1, 1956 there ) was a German sculptor .

life and work

Stone Maiden 1913
Striding girl in Berlin-Spandau, 1932
Beauty 1926

Röll was the son of Wilhelm Röll and Luise Greifzu. He was one of the artists at the Berlin School of Sculpture and was significantly influenced by Adolf von Hildebrand . From 1896 to 1900 he attended the arts and crafts school in Nuremberg and then worked as an assistant to Gustav Eberlein and Johannes Götz . From 1902 to 1910 he was at the Academic University of the Arts in Berlin under Ludwig Manzel , Ernst Herter , Peter Breuer and mainly Gerhard Janensch . For 1906/1907 he received a grant from the Adolf Menzel Foundation.

In 1909 he received the "Great State Prize" from the Prussian Academy of the Arts . From 1911 to 1914 he lived in Rome, his studio first in the Villa Strohl-Fern, from October 1912 in the Villa Massimo (at times together with Adolf von Hildebrand), Eduard Arnhold's first private scholarship . He exhibited at major art exhibitions in Berlin, Munich, Rome and Vienna. In 1928 he won the silver medal for German art in Düsseldorf. He was also awarded the Menzel Prize. He worked in stone, bronze and wood.

Röll lived in Berlin-Dahlem . From 1919 he had his own studio in Berlin, in 1935 he bought August Gaul's studio . In 1934 he directed the Great Berlin Art Exhibition . His portrait busts are particularly valued. Röll remained true to Hildebrand's demands, which saved him from a great career as a sculptor during the Nazi era .

Participation in exhibitions (selection)

  • Major Berlin art exhibitions in 1901, 1902, 1904, 1906–1942
  • Berlin Secession 1920, 1926
  • Association of Berlin Artists 1925–1941
  • Academy Berlin 1924–1941
  • Munich 1904, 1907, 1908, 1911, 1912, 1925, 1930, 1932, 1935, 1936, 1937–1941
  • Olympic art competition Berlin 1936
  • Königsberg 1925, Rio de Janeiro 1928, Essen 1928, Düsseldorf 1928 (silver medal), 1933, Vienna 1909, 1932 (medal of honor), 1940, Rome 1912, 1913, Helsinki 1936, Warsaw 1938, Zagreb and Bratislava 1942

Works (selection)

  • Sandal tie (marble, life-size, bought by Hitler in 1939, reappeared at Sotheby’s in 2004 , withdrawn after intervention. Resurfaced in free English trade in 2008, since the figure was reported in The Art Newspaper on July 7, 2008 about Hitler's former possession of the figure lost again)
  • Sandal binder, 1909 (bronze, life-size, Berlin / Lietzenseepark and Folkwang-Museum / Essen; there also a "pig")
  • Desperate, Rome 1912 (bronze, life-size, Berlin / Mariendorf, Heidefriedhof )
  • Stone girl, 1913 (shell limestone, life-size, Berlin-Grunewald)
  • Figures of capital in the entrance hall of the Ullstein-Druckhaus, Tempelhof, 1926
  • Stride, 1932 (bronze, life-size, Berlin-Spandau)
  • Runner at the finish, 1927 (bronze, life-size, Halle / S., Am Leipziger Turm)
  • Nietzsche portrait, 1921 (marble, Goethe National Museum, Weimar)
  • Portrait painter Ströher (bronze, Hunsrück Museum Simmern )
  • Portrait of Dr. Franke (bronze, Siemens archive)
  • Donor plaque, bronze relief portrait of Eduard Arnhold, 1929 (German Academy, Villa Massimo, Rome)
  • Grave sculptures (Berlin: Luisenfriedhof II / warrior grave "Mother Earth", Parkfriedhof Lichterfelde , Stahnsdorf cemetery, Dahlem - St. Annen-Friedhof; Hamburg-Ohlsdorf: Fichtel grave , 1931)
  • Gravestone of a mourner (war memorial in Kaltennordheim )
  • Mother and child (1938, life-size, Berlin / Bahnhof Friedrichstrasse, was last seen in 1960, has since disappeared)
  • Rhön farmer (wood, lost)
  • Jung-Siegfried (larger than life, plaster of paris in metal, acquired by the city of Berlin in 1942, lost)
  • Fountain with a female figure (lost)

In private ownership: portrait busts, small sculptures, including depictions of animals, with which he can assert himself alongside August Gaul .

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. Röll, Fritz . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 28 : Ramsden-Rosa . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1934, p. 489 .
  2. Personal-Nachrichten - Charlottenburg . In: Die Kunst - monthly magazine for free and applied arts . F. Bruckmann, Munich 1899, p. 200 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  3. Reports on work, rent payments, etc. The following scholarship holders or guests in Rome: Fritz Röll 1909 to 1911. From 1911 printed in Angela Windholz: Et in academia ego… Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-7954-2060-4 , p. 315-317 .
  4. Press photo with Hitler in front of the "Sandalenbinder" in Munich (1939) (accessed on May 24, 2014)
  5. Jiri Kuchar: Hitlerova sbirka v cechach. Verlag Eminent, 2009, ISBN 978-80-7281-386-5 , pp. 195-201
  6. Barbara Leisner, Heiko KL Schulze, Ellen Thormann: The Hamburg main cemetery Ohlsdorf. History and tombs. Verlag Hans Christians, Hamburg 1990, p. 154, cat. 1066.