Gisela Boeckh from Tzschoppe

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Gisela Boeckh von Tzschoppe 1977

Gisela Boeckh von Tzschoppe (born June 13, 1887 in Oldenstadt as Gisela von Tzschoppe ; † January 9, 1981 in Berlin ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Gisela Boeckh von Tzschoppe was born as the daughter of district administrator Walter von Tzschoppe and his wife Adelheid, née von Steuben, in Oldenstadt near Uelzen. She spent her youth in Magdeburg, Potsdam and Berlin. After her first artistic attempts, when she was about 25 years old, she succeeded in creating a male portrait that was sold to America. She then went on to train as a sculptor with Arthur Lewin-Funcke , August Kraus and Wilhelm Otto .

In 1919 she married Walther Boeckh, the Reich Economic Judge, and the marriage had four sons.

Gisela Boeckh von Tzschoppe is buried in the family grave of the Boeckh family at Luisenfriedhof II on Königin-Elisabeth-Strasse in Berlin-Charlottenburg .

Works

Berlin-Steglitz in front of Matthäuskirche Der Gefesselte
Luisenfriedhof-II Grab-Boeckh, bronze reliefs by Gisela Boeckh von Tzschoppe, around 1970

Boeckh von Tzschoppe's sculptural work extended from the beginning of the 20s to the early 70s. Most of her works were created in the period after the Second World War.

In the twenties and thirties, Gisela Boeckh von Tzschoppe primarily created portrait heads, reliefs and statuettes . Like most other works of the time, some life-size sculptures were destroyed and lost due to the effects of the war. The statuette "Mother and Child" (1924) comes from the first years of her work. From the portrait bust of the physicist Max Planck, which Boeckh von Tzschoppe modeled in 1947, there is a bronze cast in each of the institutes of the Max Planck Society . From the time of the Second World War onwards, political events also determined her choice of motive. Again and again it is the abandoned and beaten, but also the security and peace seeking and finding person who is the focus of her work. In the second half of her work, she mainly turned to religious and biblical topics and developed her own style.

At the age of 72 (1960), Boeckh von Tzschoppe created the memorial for those persecuted by the Nazi regime on the square in front of the Matthäuskirche in Berlin-Steglitz , which is entitled "The Fettered - The Persecuted from 1933 to 1945". In the years that followed, the memorial was repeatedly overturned, once stolen and sunk in the Neuer See in the Großer Tiergarten , where a walker accidentally rediscovered it. Around 1970 she created two bronze reliefs for the Boeckh family's inheritance.

Gisela Boeckh von Tzschoppe mostly worked in clay. Some of her sculptures and reliefs have found their final form in fired clay, most of them have been preserved as bronze casts or plaster of paris.

From 1920 onwards, the artist's works were shown at art exhibitions in Berlin: 1923, 1924: Large Berlin art exhibition in the department of the Berlin Artists Association; in the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum in Posen in 1944, from 1946 almost every year at the jury-free art exhibition in Berlin-Zehlendorf , in the Charlottenburg Palace , in the exhibition halls.

In 2018/2019 some of her sculptures were part of the traveling exhibition “Sculptors. From Kollwitz to Genzken ”on female sculptors from the early 19th century in the Vogelmann art gallery , Heilbronn, as well as the Gerhard-Marcks-Haus and the Böttcherstraße museums , Bremen.

Web links

Commons : Gisela Boeckh von Tzschoppe  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Tobias Boeckh: Gisela Boeckh von Tzschoppe - sculptures, catalog raisonné. Self-published, Großräschen 2003.
  • Reclam's art guide Germany. Volume 7: "Berlin". 3rd edition 1987.
  • The great Baedeker Berlin. 26th edition, 1992.
  • Memorial sites for the victims of National Socialism. A documentation. Ed .: Federal Agency for Civic Education. Volume II. Bonn 2000. p. 169.