Heinrich Holthaus

Heinrich Holthaus (born June 29, 1903 in Hagen ; † November 6, 1980 ibid) was a German sculptor . In his hometown he worked as an artist, preferably with the materials bronze and artificial stone.

In 1926 he began an apprenticeship at a bank, then studied Protestant theology, philosophy and art history in Münster , and from 1930 sculpture at the art academies in Hamburg and Berlin .

In 1939 he received a Kassel grant, in 1940 a grant from the Kölner Kunstverein. From 1941 on he was in military service and until 1946 in captivity. From 1946 he lived as a freelance sculptor in Plettenberg before he returned to his hometown in 1953. There he was a member of the artists' association Hagenring , and in 1978 the Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum in Hagen dedicated a solo exhibition to him. Since studying theology in Münster in 1930, he was close friends with the later painter Hubert Berke . In 1969 they had a group exhibition in the Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum in Hagen. Both belonged to the circle of acquaintances of the constitutional lawyer Carl Schmitt, who lived in Plettenberg .

Works

• Large standing woman with cloth, bronze (1953) 171 cm high; Ricarda-Huch-Schule, in the foyer of the auditorium, Voswinckelstr. 1
• Standing boy, shell limestone (1957) 235 cm high; Cuno Vocational School Hagen, Viktoriastr. 2
• Sitting boy, bronze (1957/58) 85 cm high (base 55 × 120 × 53 cm); Youth home in Buscheypark, Hagen (new status: Volkspark)
• "Climbing" boy on the ladder, bronze (1960) 190 cm high bronze; Bergstrasse elementary school, today Cuno School II, Bergstrasse
• Bronze relief "The Destroyed City 1945" (1965) 1.90 × 0.90 cm; Hagen town hall
• Bronze door handle (abstract figurative); Ratskeller in the town hall of Hagen
• "Movement" of water, bronze (1970) 160 cm high (base 125 × 110 × 110 cm); Stadtbad Mitte, today the Caritas building, Bergstrasse
• "The stages of life" (1973/74) 150 × 500 cm bronze; Forest cemetery, Hoheleye 5

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  "Movement" of the water, mountain road

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  "Climbing" boy on the ladder, Bergstrasse

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  "Sitting boy", Volkspark Hagen

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  "The stages of life", Hoheleye forest cemetery

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  "The Destroyed City", Hagen City Museum

literature

• Herta Hesse (Red.): Hubert Berke, pictures - Heinrich Holthaus, sculptures. Catalog for the exhibition in the Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum Hagen, April 19 - May 18, 1969 .
• Gerd Giesler: Carl Schmitt and the arts in the Plettenberg post-war period. Annual gift 2010 from the Carl-Schmitt-Gesellschaft Plettenberg . Carl-Schmitt-Gesellschaft, Plettenberg 2010. ISBN 978-3-9812613-2-5 .
• Johannes Peeren, Jürgen Thormählen: Heinrich Holthaus - stages of a sculptor's life . kunstdialoghagenwest heft 4, Ardenkuverlag, Hagen 2007. ISBN 3-932070-77-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinrich Holthaus in the catalog of the German National Library