Gustav Adolf Bredow

Gustav Adolf Bredow (born August 22, 1875 in Krefeld , † April 23, 1950 in Stuttgart ) was a German sculptor and medalist .

Life

Gustav Adolf Bredow studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1892 , where he worked in Clemens Buscher's studio and in various other studios and workshops in Northern Germany. In 1897 he settled in Stuttgart. One of his main areas of work was sacred sculpture . He was awarded the honorary title of professor .

In 1914 Bredow stayed in Buenos Aires for a few months. During the First World War (possibly on his way back from South America) he was taken prisoner by the British on the Isle of Man . In the internment camp there , Bredow set up a drawing school in which the painter Franz Sales Gebhardt-Westerbuchberg became one of his students.

Despite the general decline in architectural building jewelry in the architecture of the 1920s, it continued to be successful during this period. B. his participation in the German art exhibition in 1930 in the Munich Glass Palace . Bredow was listed as an important visual artist of the Nazi state on Joseph Goebbels ' list of gifts for gods .

Work (selection)

• 1908: Building sculpture at the New Villa Haux in Ebingen
• 1909: Building sculpture at the Schauspielhaus in Stuttgart
• 1910: Competition design for a monumental fountain in Buenos Aires (awarded first prize of 8,000 marks ); The fountain design was carried out a few years later, but the entire square was not completed until 1964.
• before 1911: Sculpture of a mother with her grieving son as a tomb of the Schiedmayer family on the Prague cemetery in Stuttgart , section 6
• before 1911: Tomb of the Marschall family in Neresheim
• 1911: Building sculpture at the Linden Museum in Stuttgart
• to 1910/1913: Relief mother with two children ( embossed copper work ) at the entrance to the Great Hall in the New Town Hall in Hanover
  (from the Hanover building historian Klaus Dieckmann as the embodiment of "laboring Love" and allegory to the welfare of the state capital for their citizens interpreted)
• before 1914: Relief on the Sermon on the Mount for the Matthäuskirche in Stuttgart
• before 1914: Tomb of the Pflaum family in the Prague cemetery in Stuttgart
• after 1918: Memorial to the fallen in the cemetery in Zuffenhausen near Stuttgart
• 1919: Sculpture Duitse dame (German woman) as a tomb for the German citizens who died in the Dutch internment during the First World War at the Crooswijk General Cemetery in Rotterdam
• 1923: Mercuriusfontein ( Merkur well ) in Leeuwarden
• around 1925: four figures and ornamental decorations on the south facade of the Reichsbank headquarters in Stuttgart
• 1934: Nude , porcelain figurine by the Rosenthal company

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  Fountain sculpture at Fuente Riqueza Agropecuaria Argentina in Buenos Aires

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  Building sculpture on the portal of the Linden Museum in Stuttgart (left)

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  Building sculpture on the portal of the Linden Museum in Stuttgart (right)

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  Schiedmayer tomb in Stuttgart

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  Duitse dame in the Crooswijk General Cemetery in Rotterdam

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  Mercuriusfontein in Leeuwarden

literature

• "Practicus": GA Bredow. In: Communications of the Württemberg Arts and Crafts Association Stuttgart. Year 1902, p. 14 f.
• Julius Baum : Bredow, Gustav Adolf . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 4 : Bida – Brevoort . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1910, p. 563 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Bredow, Gustav Adolf . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p. 305 .
• Bredow, Gustav Adolf . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 14, Saur, Munich a. a. 1996, ISBN 3-598-22754-X , p. 498.
• Martin Heidemann: Medal art in Germany from 1895 to 1914 (= The Art Medal in Germany . Volume 8, also dissertation, University of Münster 1994, under the title Studies on the so-called revival of medal art in Germany at the turn of the century ) ed. by the German Society for Medal Art (DGMK) and the National Museums in Berlin, Münzkabinett, Berlin 1998, p. 491.

Web links

Commons : Gustav Adolf Bredow  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Date and place of death according to: Karlheinz Fuchs (Ed.): Silver from Heilbronn for the world. P. Bruckmann & Sons (1805–1973). (Exhibition catalog of the Städtische Museen Heilbronn) Heilbronn 2001, ISBN 3-930811-90-1 , p. 219.
2. ↑ artist. Gustav Adolf Bredow. German Society for Medal Art, accessed on October 29, 2015 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} German fountain on Plaza Alemania in Buenos Aires on buenosairescityguide.com last accessed on December 1, 2017 (English).
4. ↑ Gabriele Morgenroth: The "painting farmer". New monograph on the work of the painter Franz Sales Gebhardt-Westerbuchberg on the heimatzeitung.de page for Altötting, Traunstein and Berchtesgadener Land , online local edition of the Passauer Neue Presse from July 16, 2011, last accessed on April 28, 2016.
5. ^ Art exhibition in Munich's Glaspalast, 1930 with a list of the participating artists , accessed on June 18, 2017.
6. ↑ Klee, Ernst .: Cultural encyclopedia for the Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945 . 1st edition. Fischer, S, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-596-17153-8 , pp. 69 .
7. ↑ ^{a b c d} mentioned by Julius Baum : Bredow, Gustav Adolf . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 4 : Bida – Brevoort . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1910, p. 563 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
8. ↑ The German fountain for Buenos Aires . In: German art and decoration . 26th year 1910, p. 126–127 ( uni-heidelberg.de [accessed October 2, 2019]).
9. ↑ Karin Ehrich: Hanover's women and the new town hall. In: Cornelia Regin (Ed.): Splendor and Power. Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the inauguration of the New Town Hall in Hanover. (= Hannoversche Studien , Volume 14.) Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2013, ISBN 978-3-7752-4964-5 , pp. 381-408, on this p. 404.
10. ^ ^{A b} Max Diez, Julius Baum: Stuttgart art of the present. Stuttgart 1913, p. 294. ( Reproduction of the section Other artists who moved to Stuttgart on Silvio Hoffmann's private homepage, last accessed on December 1, 2017)
11. ↑ Cemetery Zuffenhausen at www.stuttgart.de , accessed on June 18, 2017
12. ^ Deutsche Bundesbank (ed.), Iris Cramer, Sabine Muschler: Architecture and Art. Deutsche Bundesbank head office in Baden-Württemberg. Frankfurt am Main 2013, p. 3. ( bundesbank.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this note. PDF)