Fritz Schulze (sculptor)

Fritz Schulze (born July 18, 1838 in Rendsburg , † December 23, 1914 in Munich ) was a German sculptor and silhouette cutter .

Life

Fritz Schulze was the son of the organ builder Friedrich Christian Theodor Schulze in Rendsburg. After attending grammar school at the age of 18, he went to the art academy in Copenhagen, where, thanks to a recommendation from his teacher Herman Wilhelm Bissen, he received a state scholarship in 1859, which secured his education in Copenhagen until 1863. Then some patrons from his hometown made a trip to Italy possible for him. At the beginning of 1865 he arrived in Rome , where he found an apartment in Piazza Barbarini. He made friends with the landscape painter Karl Lindemann-Frommel, who was a generation older , and made contact with the German colony in the Palazzo Caffarelli, which housed the Prussian embassy, ​​the German Archaeological Institute and the Protestant chapel. Since his home had become a Prussian province after the German-Danish war , Schulze successfully applied for a scholarship in Berlin, which secured his stay in Rome for the time being. In May 1869 he applied for a new "cash grant from state funds", presenting a certificate from the sculptor Emil Wolff and a recommendation from the Prussian envoy Harry von Arnim, but the responsible minister Otto von Bismarck refused this time because Schulze had failed to submit work samples .

The artist, known as “Schulzetto” because of his delicate stature, was one of the central figures of an artist festival of the German Artists' Association at the legendary Cervaro Grottoes in 1870 . Schulze found a patron in the industrialist Heinrich Adolph Meyer who enabled him to continue to stay in Rome. Meyer ordered six marble statues of Greek poets and philosophers for the park of his villa "Haus Forsteck" in Kiel. Around 1873 Meyer took part in the competition for the Uwe Jens Lornsen monument in his hometown of Rendsburg, but lost to Heinrich Möller from Altona.

In 1895/1896 Schulze was President of the German Artists' Association in Rome and contact person for his fellow countrymen from Schleswig-Holstein. In the spring of 1900 he looked after the young sculptor Anna Petersen from Schleswig. Schulze, who married in Italy, moved to Munich in old age, where he died.

Works

In 1863 Schulze went public for the first time with a statue of the " Loreley " at the art academy exhibition. The choice of this topic may have been understood in Copenhagen at a time of growing national tensions as a commitment to his German origins. Schulze created the busts of the main pastor of the Christ Church in Rendsburg, Carl Heinrich Anton Balermann, the Kiel professors Karl Heinrich Christian Bartels and Rudolf von Ihering , as well as a portrait medallion of Auguste Lindemann-Frommen born. Baroness von Racknitz. Around 1880 he created a marble angel for his father's tomb in the Neuwerk cemetery in Rendsburg.

His main Roman work is the bronze figure of a young girl seated on a capital (permanent loan from the Rendsburg Historical Museum to the Museumberg Flensburg). Around 1880 he created an angel figure for his father's grave in Rendsburg. Schulze's passion was making paper cutouts for his Roman contemporaries, including a caricature by Franz Liszt in 1870 . Together with Gustav Floerke , he published silhouettes with depictions of Roman folk life .

literature

• Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer: Fritz Schulze. In: Ders .: Longing for Arcadia - Schleswig-Holstein artists in Italy. Heide 2009, pp. 276–281.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Angela Windholz: Et in Academia ego. Regensburg 2008, pp. 255–336.
2. ^ Kieler Zeitung, October 9, 1878.
3. ↑ Heiko KL Schulze, "... to which one can go with devotion" - Historic cemeteries in Schleswig-Holstein, Heide 1999, p. 90.
4. ^ Ernst Burger: Franz Liszt - The years in Rome and Tivoli. Mainz 2010, p. 99.
5. ^ Fritz Schulze: Black Pictures from Rome and the Campagna. Alphons Dürr publishing house, Leipzig 1874.