Johannes Göldel

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Johannes Konstantin Göldel (born April 17, 1891 in Leipzig , † after 1946) was a German sculptor .

Life

Göldel studied after an apprenticeship as a stonemason at the Academy for Graphic Arts and Book Trade in Leipzig. After graduating, he worked as a freelancer. His studio was located in Leipzig, Delitzscher Straße 2-14, for the stone transport expediently at the open loading station. At times he also worked as a teacher at the Leipzig School of Applied Arts.

Göldel created monuments, figurative groups and depictions of animals mainly from limestone , travertine and porphyry tuff . In the field of decorative building sculpture , he mainly worked with Art Deco architects .

The Figures at Petershof (2014)

His main work are seven figures made of Cannstatt travertine on the facade of the Petershof exhibition center, completed in 1929, which represented arts and professions with the help of symbols. Göldel gave each of the figures the facial features of a person who was important for the construction of the building, e.g. B. the architect Alfred Liebig , the mayor Karl Rothe and the banker Hans Kroch . The latter was Jewish, which is why all figures were removed in 1938. In 1994, the Leipzig sculptor Markus Gläser created replicas in cement , which were installed on the building the following year.

Göldel also lived temporarily in Borsdorf near Leipzig. For this parish he created a remarkable memorial for the fallen of the First World War . A woman with a steel helmet as an allegory of Germania kneels over a lioness's head. She holds the sword in her back, symbolizing defiant grief.

An approximately three meter high depiction of a family of four from Rochlitzer Porphyrtuff on a house in Leipzig- Stötteritz , created by Göldel in 1938, is the largest sculpture from the National Socialist period that has survived in Leipzig .

Nothing is known about the time after 1946 and the end of Göldel's life.

Honors

A street in Borsdorf was named after him.

Works

  • Textile School Reichenbach

  • Monument in Borsdorf

  • Facade of the Petershof

  • Family in Stötteritz

  • 1927: Crucifixion group at the St. Marien church in Reichenbach in Vogtland
  • 1920s monument ( Germania ) in Borsdorf
  • 1929: Seven facade figures at the Petershof Leipzig
  • 1930: Sculpture above the entrance portal of the Reichenbach crematorium in Vogtland
  • 1933: Bethanienkirche Leipzig: bust of Johann Sebastian Bach and the war memorial in the baptistery
  • 1939: Large family sculpture , Leipzig-Stötteritz, Naunhofer Straße 18

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ verifiable until 1946
  2. ^ Address book Leipzig 1928. Retrieved on April 23, 2017 .
  3. ↑ The memorial for the fallen and war victims in Borsdorf. Retrieved April 23, 2017 .
  4. ↑ General Artist Lexicon, Vol. 56, p. 591
  5. ↑ Ulrich Hübner: The crematorium in Reichenbach / Vogtl. (P. 168). Retrieved April 23, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Göldel, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Göldel, Johannes Konstantin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH after 1946