Fritz Theilmann

Fritz Theilmann (1926)

Fritz Theilmann (born December 28, 1902 in Karlsruhe ; † August 7, 1991 ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Friedrich Theilmann began training as an architect and from 1921 studied sculpture at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe . He became a master student of Georg Schreyögg . From 1925 to 1929 he worked for Kieler Kunst-Keramik AG. After an extensive trip to the Orient and India , he accepted an appointment as professor at the State Ceramic College in Bunzlau in 1932 . There he gave the Bunzlau ceramics new impulses. In 1936 he received the Wroclaw City Art Prize. He was also managing director of the Silesian Art Association (1937–42) and head of the State Office for Crafts and Industrial Design of the Province of Lower Silesia (from 1940).

In 1942 he came to the Eastern Front as a soldier and was a Soviet prisoner of war from 1945 to 1949 . The experiences of these seven years shaped his further work.

He settled in Kieselbronn , the home of his grandfather, and worked as a jewelry designer in Pforzheim, and from 1959 exclusively as a freelance artist . He created numerous sculptures for war, expulsion and homecoming memorials. In 1961 he received the Friedland Prize of the Homecomers for the sculpture Those who die defenseless .

Theilmann worked in a wide variety of materials, techniques and formats. His complete works include almost 600 objects. He never aimed at provocation , but explained: "Even the creative insistence on the completely unproblematic, essential core can be a provocation at certain times".

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  Reach for freedom , Goslar

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  Memorial in the Moschendorf camp

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  Bell thieves , Niebelsbach

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  Ceramic relief of the wall fountain at the Parkhof in Flensburg

Web links

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