Gerhard Halbritter

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Gerhard Richard Halbritter (born September 11, 1908 in Mühlhausen / Thuringia , † July 15, 2002 in Tübingen ) was a German sculptor , draftsman and graphic artist .

Gerhard Halbritter

Life

In 1924, Gerhard Halbritter began an apprenticeship as wood sculptor and took private lessons in painting and sculpture. After his mother died in 1926 of an orphan studied (his father was killed in World War I) with the financial support of his uncle, initially for two years at the School of Applied Arts in Budapest in Matrei. Then he moved on to Rome to the Accademia di Belle Arti ( Antonino Calcagnadoro ), to Paris to the Ecole Superieur des Beaux-Arts ( Henri Bouchard ), to Brussels to the Academie Royale Bruxelles ( Égide Rombaux ) and finally to Copenhagen Royal Academy of Fine Arts ( Aksel Joergensen). There he met his daughter, Rut Joergensen, whom he married in 1936. The couple had three children.

In Copenhagen he worked as a freelance artist until 1944 when he was drafted into the war in Hungary and Bohemia as a translator and writer. After the war he was imprisoned in Copenhagen and interned until 1947, after which he was expelled from Denmark.

Calligraphic postscript by Rainer Maria Rilke's The Wise of Love and Death of the Cornet Christoph Rilke (Tübingen 1946)

During his imprisonment in Denmark in 1946 Halbritter made a copy of Rilke's " The Wise of Love and Death of the Cornet Christoph Rilke ", written in Gothic script and equipped with 29 watercolored initial vignettes , a story published in 1912 as the first volume in the Insel Bücherei . In 1984 this work was published in a bibliophile edition.

Back in Germany, he first went to Baden-Baden (Institute for Artistic Planning and Creation) and then on to Tübingen. Initially working as a freelancer, from 1958 he worked for four years as a scientific draftsman at the Tübingen University Clinic for ENT. Since then he has been working as a freelancer.

There is an extensive graphic work, including over 100 etchings on sacred buildings such as B. Ulm, Basel, Strasbourg, Mainz, Barcelona, ​​Copenhagen, Speyer, Freiburg. The reconstruction of the Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci in Haigerloch / Hohenzollern is remarkable . The initiator for this was Friedrich Schüz .

Halbritter created portrait medals from Goethe (1949), Ernst Bloch (1977), Norbert Greinacher (1977), Walter Jens (1984), Hans Küng (1980), among others .

Death mask by Ernst Bloch, 1977

Gerhard Halbritter has removed death masks a . a. by Ernst Bloch , Eduard Spranger , Friedrich Schüz but also by Gudrun Ensslin , Andreas Baader and Jan-Carl Raspe in the days after their suicides on the so-called death night of Stammheim on October 18, 1977. The casts of Ensslin, Baader and Raspe believed to be lost appeared in the art trade in September 2009 via the rightful heiress.

Gerhard Richard Halbritter died on July 15, 2002 in his home in Tübingen.

Awards

1931 Silver Medal for Design, Academie Royale Bruxelles

Works

Some of Halbritter's work in public:

  • 1951, Nepomuk, Haigerloch
  • 1954, crucifixion group St. Luzen in Hechingen
  • 1967, Epitaph President Bock, Nordstetten
  • 1973, Kuno, Luithold, Aurelius, Münster Zwiefalten
  • 1990, Epitaph Synagogue, Hechingen
  • Project to exhibit the death masks of Gudrun Ensslin, Andreas Baader and Jan-Carl Raspe in the House of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bonn.

literature

  • Gerhard Halbritter . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 6 , supplements H-Z . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1962, p. 12 .
  • Kürschner's graphic artist's manual: Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Berlin , de Gruyter 1959
  • "Das Münster" 4 (1951), p. 313
  • Volker Klimpel: Gerhard Halbritter. An artist from Mühlhausen. In: Mühlhäuser Contributions , Issue 33 (2010), pp. 137–142.

Web links

Commons : Gerhard Halbritter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrich Stolte in conversation with Loni Halbritter-Hansen. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , July 8, 2010; accessed on December 18, 2016
  2. ↑ Riding, riding in fracture. Gerhard Halbritters bibliophile edition of Rilke's "Cornet", Südwestpresse from November 29, 1984
  3. ↑ Jürgen Dahlkamp : Trophies for the safe . In: Der Spiegel . No. 42 , 2002 ( online ).
  4. ↑ Katrin Sachse: "The Three Criminals" - The death masks made by a sculptor for Ensslin, Baader and Raspe have now appeared in the art trade . In: FOCUS Magazin No. 37/2009.
  5. ^ Spiegel Online, Kultur, September 9, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Half knight, Gerhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Halbritter, Gerhard Richard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor, draftsman and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Mühlhausen / Thuringia
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 2002
Place of death Tübingen