Gottfried Kohl

Gottfried Kohl (born April 3, 1921 in Freiberg ; † January 20, 2012 there ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Kohl was the son of a Freiberg wood sculptor. From 1928 he attended the Rochlitz School and then the grammar school in his hometown. He then took up an apprenticeship in wood carving in Dresden and at the same time continued his education through evening studies at the art academy. In 1939 Kohl won a wood carving competition and received a scholarship for 1939/1940 for training with Cirillo Dell'Antonio at the Bad Warmbrunn wood carving school in preparation for studying at the Munich Art Academy . After training in Bad Warmbrunn , in 1940 he was drafted as a communications engineer for the Wehrmacht . At first he was stationed outside Rome , where he took the opportunity for practical studies at the Villa Massimo . In 1946 he returned home from French captivity and learned that his mother died in 1944 and that his father had a fatal accident in 1945. In 1947 he passed the master's examination: As a masterpiece he designed the tomb for his parents and took over the father's workshop, although he focused on artistic work in stone and bronze and had his craft business as a wood sculptor continued by an employee. Until 1956 Kohl worked in Berlin with Hermann Henselmann as head of the sculptor's workshop on the reconstruction and redesign in the style of socialist realism . He lived and worked in Freiberg again since 1956 and was a member of the artists' association "Kaue".

Kohl was a member of the LDPD and a member of the Karl-Marx-Stadt district assembly . In March 1977 he was elected a member of the LDPD's central executive committee at the 12th party congress of the LDPD in Weimar .

In 1987 he was awarded the National Prize of the GDR . Since 2008 Kohl was an honorary citizen of the city of Freiberg.

Works (selection)

• The forty-eight, Schloßplatz Freiberg, Stein 1948
• Relief youth, Weberwiese Berlin, bronze 1953
• Chicken girl, Brand-Erbisdorf, bronze 1960
• Bear, Chemnitz, bronze, 1966
• Storks, Chemnitz, bronze 1968
• Dancing cranes, Tierpark Berlin , bronze 1972
• Youth, fountain in Chemnitz, bronze 1980
• Drinking fountain in the Wandelhalle Bad Liebenstein 1989
• several animal sculptures and the flute player in Freiberg Zoo
• Father and son, in front of the special needs school on Albert-Einstein-Straße in Freiberg
• Girls playing ball in front of the Ernst-Grube-Halle in Freiberg
• Gossip women on the gossip fountain at Freiberg town hall
• Figures on the Gerberbrunnen on the Freiberg Untermarkt
• Communication, Basler Versicherung in Bad Homburg, 1995
• Legends of Lower Lusatia, well in Sallgast near Finsterwalde, 1997

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  Tanner's Fountain

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  Girls playing ball

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  Gossip fountain

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  Boar in Freiberg Zoo

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  Miner on the Obermarkt

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  Dancing cranes - Bad Liebenstein Zoo

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  Dancing Cranes - Tierpark Berlin (1972)

Web links

Commons : Gottfried Kohl  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Gottfried Kohl in the Saxon Bibliography
• Appreciation by Jörg Woidniok
• Portrait at sculptures and sculptures in downtown Chemnitz (the date of birth is incorrect)
• Honorary citizen Gottfried Kohl celebrates his birthday: Congratulations on his 90th! (Official Journal of the University City of Freiberg No. 5)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Freie Presse , Freiberg local edition: Freiberger honorary citizen Gottfried Kohl is dead ; Notification of January 21, 2012; P. 9
2. ^ From the 12th Congress of the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany . In: Der Morgen , March 5, 1977, p. 4.
3. ↑ Announcement on the pages of Natur- und Heimatfreunde Bad Liebenstein