Hermann Klotz

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Hermann Klotz in 1902

Hermann Klotz (born June 11, 1850 in Imst , † March 6, 1932 in Dornbirn ) was an Austrian sculptor .

Life

The son of a master carpenter first trained with Franz Xaver Renn and Johann Grissemann in Imst, then he worked in the studio of the architect Karl Kaiser in Vienna . From 1875 he studied with Otto König  at the arts and crafts school of the Imperial and Royal Austrian Museum for Art and Industry in Vienna, where he was appointed head of the newly created carving department in 1879 and professor in 1884. His students included Franz Haider , Wolfgang Wallner , Max Domenig and Franz Barwig the Elder .

Klotz was particularly active as a wood carver , which, in contrast to his cousin, the stone sculptor Edmund Klotz , earned him the nickname "Holzklotz". He invented a new method of polychromy of wooden statues. He also created statues and reliefs in marble and bronze, including a life-size statue of the striding Empress Elisabeth for the Matthias Church in Budapest. This depiction was so well received that Emperor Franz Joseph I had small bisque replica copies made to give away to family members and guests of state.

Empress Elisabeth monument made of Lasa marble , Merano

Works

• Relief medallions (satyr boys), Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, 1878
• Monument to Rudolf Eitelberger , Kunstgewerbemuseum in Vienna, 1886
• Allegory of wood carving, Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, 1887
• Draft for subgroups of the Andreas Hofer monument on Bergisel , 1893
• Tondi with reliefs of the four evangelists, Breitenfeld parish church , Vienna, around 1895
• Empress Elisabeth monument in Merano , 1903
• Statue of Empress Elisabeth in the Matthias Church in Budapest, 1905
• Grave monument for Max Stern, Israelite department of Innsbruck West Cemetery , 1910

literature

• Klotz, Hermann . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 20 : Kaufmann – Knilling . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 547 .
• Klotz, Hermann. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 3, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1965, p. 421 f. (Direct links on p. 421 , p. 422 ).
• Klotz, Hermann. In: Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie , 2nd edition, Volume 5, De Gruyter Saur, Munich 2006, p. 721

Web links

Commons : Hermann Klotz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Myth Sisi , Hofburg Vienna
2. ^ Eitelberger, Rudolf von (1817–1885) , Image Archive Austria, Austrian National Library
3. ↑ Ernst Exner: The becoming of the parish church Breitenfeld. In: Parish Breitenfeld, (Ed.) 100 Years Parish Breitenfeld 1898–1998. Festschrift, Vienna 1998 ( PDF; 2.4 MB )
4. ↑ A new grave monument. In:  Innsbrucker Nachrichten , October 25, 1910, p. 9 (online at ANNO ).