Hans Kazzer

Ringelheimer Kreuz in the Catholic Church of St. Abdon and Sennen in Salzgitter-Ringelheim;
Copy made by Hans Kazzer

Hans Kazzer (born November 5, 1940 in Breslau ) is a German sculptor who lives in Munich and Lungkwitz near Kreischa. He is a diverse painter, wood sculptor, metal sculptor and restorer. His son of the same name (* 1966) is also a sculptor and architect.

Life

With the approaching end of the Second World War , the Kazzer family fled to Kreischa in 1945 . Here Hans Kazzer trained as a sculptor at the Schwabe company from 1955 to 1958. In the DEFA studio for animated films in Dresden , he then worked as a puppet designer until 1962. He studied sculpture at the Leipzig University of Graphics and Book Art from 1962–1965. Hans Kazzer then became a production assistant and was in charge of model making at the Central Theater Workshops in Berlin until 1971. From 1972 he became a freelancer at the Dresden Institute for Monument Preservation (today's State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony ). From 1976 he also took part in the annual stone carving symposia in Pirna-Cotta.

At the end of the 1970s the family moved to the Federal Republic of Germany .

In 1981 Hans Kazzer got a job as a sculptor and restorer at the Bavarian Palace Administration in Munich .

Hans Kazzer is married and has a son of the same name who followed in his father's footsteps. Hans Kazzer jun. (* 1966) also became a sculptor and architect. He runs a wood carving workshop and since 1997, together with Martin Aichner, an architecture office in Munich. The junior has been a research assistant at the Faculty of Architecture, Institute for Design and Structural Engineering / Timber Construction at the Technical University of Munich since 2002.

Examples of his work

1975: The standing woman, bronze act in what was then Leningrader Strasse in Dresden, on the edge of Prager Strasse
In the village church Schellerhau , Kazzer worked together with three Dresden artists after the fall of the Wall as a restorer of sacred art.

1990: Portrait of Colin Davis for the Staatskapelle Dresden

1992: Portrait of the popular actor Gustl Bayrhammer for the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation

1993/94: copy of the statue of St. Bernward von Hildesheim for the Church of St. Abdon and Sennen

1995: Portrait of the then President of the Bavarian Palace Administration Ortholf Freiherr von Crailsheim

1996: Bust of Robert Schumann on behalf of the Art and Culture Association Robert-Schumann Kreischa eV , erected in the spa gardens of Kreischa 1997

1997: Portrait of the President of the Technical University of Munich Prof. Otto Meitinger

2001: Portrait of the opera singer Peter Schreier

2006: "Obeliskus Augustalis" for the Green Vault Dresden

2006: bronze memorial plaque for the “Brücke” painter Otto Mueller in the Dresden district of Rockau

2008: Bust of Clara Wieck (Schumann) in Schmorsdorf near Maxen, made on behalf of the Heimatverein

2009: Portrait of Heinrich Müller

2010: Portrait of Heinrich Magirius

In February 2011 Kazzer was represented in the jury of the 15th snow sculpture competition in the Ore Mountains “In the sign of the gods and legends”.

2010/11: a 6 kg bronze bust with two faces for Raden Saleh , the "founder of Indonesian painting"

2018: Bust of Peter Schreier in the spa gardens of Kreischa