Gustav Adolf Bernd

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Adolf Bernd, around 1900
Winegrower figure in Bad Dürkheim
Vintner stele at the northern entrance to Neustadt (Weinstrasse)

Gustav Adolf Bernd (born October 15, 1869 in Odenbach ; † April 12, 1942 in Kaiserslautern ) was a German sculptor and stonemason .

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Adolf Bernd was born the son of a blacksmith; the family moved from Odenbach to Kaiserslautern in 1879. Here his older brother Heinrich Bernd taught sculpture at the Royal District Building Trade School in Kaiserslautern .

Gustav Adolf Bernd attended elementary school there and entered the building trade school at the age of 14 , where his brother taught. He attended the class for wood carvers and stone sculptors. His brother encouraged him, for he had already recognized his talent when, in his childhood, he had often modeled figurines of astonishing craftsmanship from clay while tending the cattle. At the age of 18 Adolf Bernd went to the Munich Art Academy in 1887 , where Wilhelm von Rümann became his teacher. In 1892 he returned to Kaiserslautern and also taught at the district building trade school. In 1895 he went into business for himself and had a sculptor's studio in the house on Parkstrasse 77 (with rich figurative jewelry from his hand), later on Mannheimer Strasse.

He died in Kaiserslautern in 1942.

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Gustav Adolf Bernd created many sculptures in public spaces and for public buildings in the Palatinate . His best-known work is the larger-than-life figure of a winemaker next to the Bad Dürkheim Kurhaus (1936). It was badly damaged in the Second World War and was therefore faithfully reproduced by his son Werner Bernd (1911–2002). The main portal of the Festhalle Landau , the Schiller memorial in Oggersheim (1907, only the base preserved), the war memorial in Steinbach am Donnersberg , the war memorial in Erfenbach , the Spittelbrunnen in Kaiserslautern and the striking vintner's stele at the northern entrance to Neustadt an der Weinstrasse are also part of his Works. For Kaiserslautern Albrecht fountain of his brother Heinrich Bernd created Gustav Adolf Bernd 1911, the crowning sculpture "Boy with piglets", which symbolizes the once securitized by the King right to be allowed drive the pigs for fattening population in the forest.

  • Spittelbrunnen in Kaiserslautern

  • Albrechtsbrunnen in Kaiserslautern, figure by Adolf Bernd

  • War memorial in Steinbach am Donnersberg

  • Schiller Monument in Oggersheim, 1907

  • Main portal of the festival hall in Landau

literature

  • Sculptor Gustav Adolf Bernd. In: Albertine Geiger, Jürgen Piechaczek: 100 Years of the Goethe School. Kerker Druck, Kaiserslautern 2008, ISBN 978-3-00-024818-4 , p. 46 f. ( online as a PDF document with 27.7 MB)

Web links

Commons : Adolf Bernd  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website on Heinrich Bernd and the Albrechtsbrunnen he created, Kaiserslautern
  2. ↑ Matriculation entry
  3. ↑ Website with a photo of Atelierhaus Bernd, Kaiserslautern, Parkstraße 77
  4. ↑ Another website with a photo of the Atelierhaus Bernd, Kaiserslautern, Parkstrasse 77
  5. ↑ Website on the figure of the vintner in Bad Dürkheim
  6. ↑ Entry by Monika Vogel on Art Nouveau Festival Hall Landau in the Palatinate (Ludowici Festival Hall, Municipal Festival Hall) in the database " KuLaDig " of the Rhineland Regional Association , accessed on December 11, 2018.
  7. ↑ Website on Spittelbrunnen Kaiserslautern
  8. ↑ Website on the building history of the fountain
personal data
SURNAME Bernd, Gustav Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bernd, Adolf (first name, usual attribution); Bernd, Adolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and stonemason
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Odenbach
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 1942
Place of death Kaiserslautern