Hermann Rosa

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Hermann Rosa (born April 2, 1911 in Pirna ; † October 5, 1981 in Munich ) was a German sculptor who also received attention and recognition through his extraordinary studio houses.

Atelier Rosa

Life

Rosa was born on April 2, 1911 in Pirna, the son of a stonemason, and grew up with six siblings at Oberpolitz Castle in Bohemian Leipa . After attending the stone school in Saubsdorf , he was a student of Drahoňovský at the School of Applied Arts in Prague from 1934 to 1938 . From 1939 to 1946, Rosa was a student of Karl Albiker at the Dresden Art Academy . After a brief assignment on the Eastern Front in 1942, he was able to continue his studies and survived the air raid on Dresden with his family. In 1946 he fled the Soviet occupation zone to Munich with his family and one-year-old son Veit. There he studied from 1947 to 1953 at the art academy with Professors Wackerle and Hiller. With a grant from the French state, he went to Paris to study in 1952 . In 1954 he began building two studio houses in Munich - Freimann, which he sold in 1959. A year later he started building the studio house on Osterwaldstrasse.

He died on October 5, 1981 in Munich. Rosa's estate was given to the Munich Architecture Museum.

His son Veit Rosa runs the Atelier Rosa. The studio can be rented as a location for exhibitions, presentations, photographs and vernissages.

Sculptures

  • 1937: Group of horses (composition), Paris World Exhibition , purchase of the Sèvres porcelain factory
  • 1947: Water carrier (bronze)
  • 1948–1949: Eva , portrait (bronze)
  • 1949: Eva , nude (bronze)
  • 1950: Escape , relief (bronze)
  • 1951: Sinnende (bronze)
  • 1952: lovers (bronze)
  • 1952: Falling Angel (bronze)
  • 1952: Resurrection , relief (bronze)
  • 1953: Seated Woman (bronze)
  • 1953: Standing woman with branch (bronze)
  • 1953–1954: Adalbert Stifter , portrait after death mask (bronze)
  • 1954: Eva , abstract (bronze)
  • 1954: Man of Sorrows , design for Karlsfeld Catholic Church (bronze)
  • 1954: Adalbert Stifter, bust, Fürth monument (bronze)
  • 1955: Beetle , after Franz Kafka (bronze)
  • 1955–1956: Refugees , relief in two parts (bronze)
  • 1970–1981: Ludwig Spegel , portrait (bronze)
  • 1972–1981: self-portrait (bronze)
  • 1977–1981: Blitz , fountain in the Augsburg-Hochzoll rectory (bronze), installation March 7, 1982

buildings

Publication: Sculptural Building
  • 1954–1959: Atelierhaus, Munich-Freimann Wallnerstrasse 9 (demolished)
  • 1954–1959: Atelierhaus, Munich-Freimann Wallnerstrasse 16 (demolished)
  • 1960–1968: Atelier Rosa , Munich-Schwabing Osterwaldstrasse 89
  • 1963–1966: Apartment renovation, Munich Beethovenstrasse 3

literature

  • Petra Strube and Ricarda Winterswyl (eds.): Hermann Rosa - sculptor and architect 1911 - 1981. UNI-Druck Munich, Munich 1999, ISBN
  • Martin Bruhin (Ed.): Hermann Rosa - Skulpturales Bauen , Sulgen TG 2008, ISBN 978-3-7212-0625-8
  • Martin Bruhin (Ed.): Purism in Concept, Form and Materials: The Pioneering Work of Hermann Rosa. Verlag Niggli , Salenstein 2016, ISBN

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Info & dates. In: Veit Rosa - Atelier Rosa. Retrieved on August 14, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Rosa, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Pirna
DATE OF DEATH 5th October 1981
Place of death Munich