Hanns Diettrich

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Hanns Diettrich (born April 4, 1905 in Jahnsdorf / Erzgeb. , † April 3, 1983 in Karl-Marx-Stadt ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Hanns Diettrich went to Chemnitz at the age of 18 and completed an apprenticeship as a sculptor and stonemason there . His teachers during this time were the painter and graphic artist Martha Schrag and the sculptor Heinrich Brenner . Hanns Diettrich became a member of the Chemnitzer Kunsthütte . In 1930 he joined the Association of Revolutionary Visual Artists of Germany (Asso) in Dresden and got in touch with artists such as the sculptor Eugen Hoffmann , the painters and graphic artists Hans and Lea Grundig, and the painter Otto Griebel .

Encouraged by orders such as the design of the clock with two reclining athletes in the cash hall of the Chemnitz city baths from 1934 to 1935, the free sculptural activity determined Diettrich's future work. From 1937 to 1943 the sculptor Gerhard Marcks was his teacher in Berlin.

After the end of the war, Hanns Diettrich worked together with Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and the doctor Gertrud Korb to found the Kulturbund in Chemnitz. Diettrich worked as a freelance artist until his death and created numerous sculptural works and drawings.

In addition to large monuments, his playful sculptures with children and animals and his excellent portraits should be named. Hans Diettrich was one of the sculptors who largely corresponded to the ideologically motivated demands for socialist realism in the GDR . He was a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR .

His son Frank Diettrich (* 1939) also became a sculptor.

Works (selection)

  • Clock with 2 reclining athletes in the ticket hall of the Chemnitz city pool (bronze)
  • Memorial to the Victims of Fascism in the Park of the Victims of Fascism at the Schauspielhaus Chemnitz (1952)
  • August fighter in front of Chemnitz main station ( Rochlitzer Porphyry )
  • Kinderbrunnen (children playing) on the street of the nations in the center of Chemnitz
  • Memorial for the fallen soldiers of the Red Army in Chemnitz-Reichenhain
  • Plastic with children playing music in front of the Reichenhain primary school (limestone)
  • the memorial for the 4,000 victims of the bomb attack on Chemnitz on March 5, 1945 (Chemnitz, Städtischer Friedhof). In the middle is a mother with her dead child in her arms, framed, among other things, by a relief representation of the explosive and incendiary attack and a poem by the Jewish writer Louis Fürnberg carved in the stone : "The wounds that terribly the barbarian of Humanity struck; and the early red will pour out shiningly over a new earthly ground under the plow. " (Rochlitzer Porphyry)
  • VVN Memorial Sachsenburg (Rochlitzer Porphyry)
  • Ernst Thälmann Monument in Chemnitz and Aue (bronze)
  • Miner sculpture at the Aue Polyclinic (bronze)
  • Relief "Children making music" in front of the school in Neukirchen / Erzgebirge (sandstone)
  • Fountain with female plastic in front of the TU Chemnitz, Reichenhainer Straße (bronze)
  • Engineer and textile worker group at TCC Annaberger Straße Chemnitz (sandstone)
  • Crane group Chemnitz, zoo, and Mittweida, station forecourt (bronze)
  • Gable relief at the Brand-Erbisdorf cultural center (sandstone)
  • Stone reliefs typical of mining above the main entrance of the Oelsnitz / Erzgeb town hall . , former "Hans Marchwitza" cultural center (miners' club) (1956)
  • Portraits of: Käthe Kollwitz , Martha Schrag , Robert Schumann , Hans Marchwitza , Karl Otto, Gaby Seifert, Maxim Gorki , Ernst Schneller and others

  • The obelisk in the Soviet cemetery in Chemnitz-Reichenhain was created by Hanns Diettrich and later restored by his son Frank Diettrich.

  • Memorial to the victims of the 1945 bombing, Chemnitz, municipal cemetery

  • Memorial to the August Fighters from 1919 (1977), Chemnitz, Bahnhofsplatz

  • Sandstone sculpture "children making music" in front of the elementary school in Chemnitz-Reichenhain

  • Fountain children playing by Hanns Diettrich, 1965 (also called children's fountain)

  • Memorial for seven anti-fascists murdered by the Gestapo on March 27, 1945 in Chemnitz-Hutholz

  • Culture house "Hans Marchwitza" Oelsnitz / Erzgeb. Main portal

Honors

Exhibitions

  • Central Saxon art exhibition Freiberg and Karl-Marx-Stadt in the 1950s
  • 1958 German art exhibition
  • 1969 Plastic in the zoo, Rostock
  • 1974, 1979 and 1985 district art exhibition in Karl-Marx-Stadt
  • 1976 Youth and Youth Objects
  • 1978 Exhibition on the 50th anniversary of the founding of the ASSO Nationalgalerie Berlin
  • 1981 Art exhibition 25 years NVA , Dresden
  • 1984 Karl-Marx-Stadt retrospective

literature

  • Diettrich, Hanns . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p. 564 .
  • Regina M. Hastedt : Sculptor Hanns Diettrich . In: Volksstimme Karl-Marx-Stadt 11, 1956, p. 156.
  • Werner Ballarin: Diettrich, Hanns . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 27, Saur, Munich a. a. 2000, ISBN 3-598-22767-1 , p. 317.
  • Dietmar Eisold (Ed.): Lexicon artists in the GDR . Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-355-01761-9 , p. 151.

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Diettrich, Hanns
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Jahnsdorf / Erzgeb.
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 1983
Place of death Karl Marx City