Hans Weidner

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Hans Weidner (1908)
with his wife Käthe, b. Halk

Hans Weidner (* 1875 in Bad Kissingen , Lower Franconia ; † 1953 there ) was a German sculptor .

Life

He was the son of the Bad Kissingen sculptor Valentin Weidner (1848–1919). He did his training first with his father, then at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . In 1907 Weidner worked for a whole year as a sculptor and restorer in the Vatican .

Weidner worked in his father's workshop, which he took over after his father's death in 1919. Hans was artistically much more skillful than his father, but unfortunately less business-minded than his father. Because of his pneumonia , he later switched to work as a restorer, gilder and wood carver . Due to illness, he was unable to fully utilize his artistic abilities.

Weidner created war memorials and coats of arms , but also tombs, such as those that can still be found in the chapel cemetery in Bad Kissingen, for example. Like his father, Weidner initially worked in the style of Historicism , but later more in Art Nouveau . While working in his father's workshop, he signed his works with the letters V and W (joined together), his father's initials, placed on top of one another, and with his own initials "HW" during the subsequent independence.

Because of the lost First World War , subsequent inflation and the Great Depression (1928) and the subsequent Second World War , Hans Weidner had far less business success than his father, despite his higher artistic abilities. In the end he had to live on the income from the haberdashery shop of his in-laws Halk (Brunnengasse), whose daughter he had married Käthe .

His grave is, like that of his father, in the chapel cemetery in Bad Kissingen.

literature

  • Gerhard Wulz: The chapel cemetery in Bad Kissingen. A guide with short biographies , Bad Kissingen 2001, ISBN 3-934912-04-4
  • Werner Eberth : Valentin and Hans Weidner (1848–1919), (1875–1953). Sculptor of historicism in Franconia . Additions to "Kissinger Heft" Volume 1, supplement to the exhibition: "The Bad Kissinger Sculptor Valentin Weidner" 1992, Theresienbrunnen-Verlag, Bad Kissingen 1996
  • Werner Eberth: Weidner and the economic bloom of the Empire , in: Saale-Zeitung from November 9, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Weidner, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Kissingen , Lower Franconia
DATE OF DEATH 1953
Place of death Bad Kissingen , Lower Franconia