Georg Curt Bauch

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Georg Curt Bauch (born July 11, 1887 in Meißen , † December 26, 1967 in Brione sopra Minusio , Canton Ticino , Switzerland) was a German portrait painter and sculptor.

Life

Bauch was the son of the porcelain painter Friedrich Wilhelm Bauch . He attended the Dresden School of Applied Arts and learned from Hugo Spieler , among others . From 1910 to 1914 he studied at the Art Academy in Dresden . He was a student of Richard Müller , but also of Robert Diez , under whose aegis he studied in the master's studio for sculpture at the art academy. During his studies he received several awards; in 1914 he received the prestigious Rome Prize .

After traveling through Italy, France and Denmark, Bauch settled in Loschwitz in 1917 , where he had a studio at Pillnitzer Landstrasse 29 until 1929. In 1929 he moved to Locarno , where he lived until 1936. He was not allowed to stay in Dresden because of his rejection of the Nazi regime, moved to Lottstetten in 1939 and tried to flee from the National Socialists to Switzerland in 1943. He was seriously injured in the process. He lived with his family in Brione in 1944 and worked in Switzerland as a portrait painter and sculptor for portrait busts and animal sculptures. His Dresden studio was destroyed in 1945; numerous works by Bauch were lost. Belly became seriously ill in old age and last lived as a widower with his daughter in Brione. He died there in 1967 and was buried in the Brion cemetery.

Works (selection)

  • 1907: Head of a black African , bronze
  • Bronze figure Gallaneger , Albertinum , Dresden
  • Figure Amazon and figure ball runner for the Lauchhammerwerk
  • Fountain in Jöhstadt / Saxony
  • Figure Sisyphus , bronze, Albertinum, Dresden
  • various tombs (factory owner Lewy in Dresden; Strobel in Meißen; Prof. Breit in Dresden)

literature

  • Belly, Kurt Georg . In: Ernst-Günter Knüppel: Robert Diez. Sculpture between Romanticism and Art Nouveau . Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2009, pp. 165–166.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archive of the Dresden University of Fine Arts.
  2. ^ Head of a Black African , Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
  3. ↑ Company catalog Lauchhammer Bildguss, Mitteldeutsche Stahlwerke Lauchhammerwerk, Lauchhammer 1927.
personal data
SURNAME Belly, Georg Curt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Belly, Kurt Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German portrait painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Meissen
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 1967
Place of death Brione sopra Minusio , Canton Ticino , Switzerland