Hans Thiele (sculptor)

Hans Thiele (born September 20, 1919 in Dresden ; † January 29, 2013 there ) was a German draftsman and sculptor .

Life

Thiele was born in the Taschenbergpalais in Dresden , which then served as a residential building . During the Second World War he was taken prisoner by the Soviets , from which he returned at the end of 1945. From 1952 he worked in the Zwingerbauhütte with Albert Braun in the reconstruction of the Dresden Zwinger . For the baroque complex he created putti and sculptural facade decorations, such as for the long gallery and the porcelain pavilion. In 1969 he passed his master craftsman examination and worked freelance in Dresden, very often for the Institute for Monument Preservation . After the reopening of the Zwingerbauhütte in 1991, he advised and instructed the employees in drawing and modeling. He himself liked to draw and paint, especially landscapes and nudes. He studied drawing at the Dresden University of Fine Arts . Thiele was a member of the Association of Visual Artists and was friends with other Dresden artists, such as Eva Schulze-Knabe , Wilhelm Rudolph , Erich Otto and Etha Richter . Among other things, he created figures and sculptural facade decorations of the Zwinger, the Hofkirche , the Semperoper , Moritzburg Castle and the Großsedlitz baroque garden . Thiele died on January 29, 2013 in Dresden and was buried in the Johannisfriedhof .

Works (selection)

Hunter at the Jägerhof

• Sculptures in the Zwinger, Hofkirche, Semperoper, Moritzburg Castle and Großsedlitz Baroque Garden
• Portrait busts for the Dresden-Friedrichstadt Hospital and the University Hospital , Orthopedic Clinic, Dresden
• Restoration of the wall fountain in the Coselpalais by Johann Gottfried Knöffler , Dresden, destroyed in 1945
• 1983: Electoral hunter with dog, Jägerhof , Dresden
• Figure of the knight Dutschmann on the main market , Bautzen
• Restoration of the Mende Fountain , Leipzig
• Allegorical figures made of sandstone for the Palais Unter den Linden , Berlin
• Putti for Sanssouci Palace , Potsdam

literature

• Dresdner Latest News , March 18, 2013, p. 16.
• Free press , news from Saxony, March 13, 2013.
• Iris Hellmann: A quiet artist's heart no longer beats. In: Sächsische Zeitung , February 12, 2013.
• Stefan Dürre: The sculptures of the Dresden Zwinger. Text volume 1 from 2002.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Stefan Dürre: The sculptures of the Dresden Zwinger. Text volume 1 from 2002.