Guta von Freydorf-Stephanow

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Baker's boy fountain on the Andernach market square

Guta von Freydorf-Stephanow (born January 23, 1911 in Waldshut-Tiengen ; † December 31, 1998 in Karlsruhe ) was a German sculptor , painter and artist .

Live and act

Guta von Freydorf came from the Baden noble family von Freydorf . Her father Eugen von Freydorf (1867–1914) was a son of the Baden minister Rudolf von Freydorf , her mother the painter Clara Ris (1871–1946). She was the youngest of the couple's six children.

In 1931 Guta von Freydorf began her training at the State Art School in Karlsruhe. At the beginning it was looked after by Georg Scholz and later by Christoph Voll . Freydorf-Stephanow had a friendly relationship with Voll and his wife Erna. She was portrayed several times by Voll and was also a model for him.
She completed a teacher training course with a focus on artistic design. Then she was an art teacher at the Neuwied Boys' High School and at the Kurfürst-Salentin-High School in Andernach. She was also a lecturer at the adult education centers in Neuwied and Plaidt .

In 1943 Guta von Freydorf married Otto Stephanow (1908–?) In Freiburg .

Artistic creation

Grape bearers in Leutesdorf
Maximilian zu Wied at Neuwied Castle

Like her teacher Voll, Freydorf-Stephanow first worked with wood, later she almost exclusively used clay, bronze and stone. Her portrait of a girl , a bust of Hermes made of white marble facing the front, resembles the works of Voll, which he created in the early thirties. They also have the same closed eyes in common. After several unsuccessful attempts, her portrait of a girl was presented in 1942 at the Great German Art Exhibition in Munich .

In the late thirties and forties she also created portrait busts and reliefs that resembled those of Adolf von Hildebrand . Furthermore, she created many small sculptural figures, some of which were cast in bronze. What is particularly striking is one figure that the artist herself called Sculptura . It is a sketch modeled seated nude figure, with the chisel and Knüpfel is equipped; it can therefore be understood as the personification of sculpture .

After Prince Friedrich Wilhelm zu Wied wanted to erect a monument to his famous ancestor Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied in front of Neuwied Castle and then announced a competition, Guta von Freydorf-Stephanow applied and won. She designed the figures in a mechanical engineering factory in Leutesdorf , which were made of styrofoam and plaster bandages. The figures were then cast in bronze under the supervision of the artist. In June 1987 the prince handed the figures over to the city of Neuwied.

There is also a work by Freydorf-Stephanow in Andernach : After the city launched a competition for figures that correspond to the baker boy legend , it convinced the jury and created two life-size baker boys that can be seen on the market square in Andernach. She also designed the bronze statues intended to depict the parable of the Good Samaritan in front of the Good Samaritan Hospital in Montabaur .

Furthermore, the symbolic figure of the wine village Leutesdorf, "Johann the Grape Bearer", was made from bronze according to your designs. In addition, she created the symbolic figure of the bachelorhood in 1468 Waldshut . The stone bachelor has been standing in front of the Lower Gate since 1998 .

She also made drawings, designed tombs and created a memorial for the unknown soldier in Leutesdorf .

The German painter and installation artist Ursula Goldau was one of Freydorf-Stephanow's students .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Baptismal register index in Baden, Germany, Protestant church records, 1502-1985. ancestry.com, accessed March 19, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c Bernd Groten: Guta von Freydorf-Stephanow - Monument Square. In: denkmalplatz.de. Retrieved October 9, 2015 .
  3. ↑ a b c Leutesdorf - The grape bearer. In: vanderkrogt.net. Retrieved October 9, 2015 .
  4. ↑ a b c Biographical data on geneall.net, accessed on October 10, 2015
  5. ^ A b Sylvia Bieber: Women on the move: women artists in the German southwest 1800–1945. City of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe 1995, ISBN 3-923344-31-7 , p. 220 f.
  6. ^ Prince Maximilian. In: valdosta.edu. Retrieved October 9, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Myth Rheinromantik - Leutesdorf. In: leutesdorf-rhein.de. Retrieved October 9, 2015 .
  8. ^ Guta von Freydorf-Stephanow. In: rhein-zeitung.de. January 21, 2011, accessed October 9, 2015 .
  9. ^ Entry on Guta von Freydorf-Stephanow in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database , accessed on March 19, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Ursula Goldau - The pure delight in art. In: ursula-goldau.de. Retrieved October 9, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Freydorf-Stephanow, Guta von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Freydorf, Guta von (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist, painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Waldshut-Tiengen
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1998
Place of death Karlsruhe