Joseph Krautwald

Joseph Krautwald Monument in his place of birth.

Joseph Krautwald (born March 7, 1914 in Borkendorf , Neisse district , province of Silesia ; † January 13, 2003 in Rheine , Westphalia ) was a German sculptor .

Career

At the age of 14, Joseph Krautwald began an apprenticeship as a stonemason at the Thust company in Groß Kunzendorf , which he was able to convert into a sculptor's apprenticeship a year later due to his early artistic talent . After graduation and a short period as a journeyman, Krautwald attended the wood carving school in Bad Warmbrunn with Cirillo Dell'Antonio and the sculpting class of Josef Thorak at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. He finally completed his training in 1939 with Karl Albiker in Dresden. A turbulent war and post-war period followed, which took Joseph Krautwald to Rheine in the Münsterland in 1949 , where he settled and set up his studio in 1951 . Joseph Krautwald died very old and received many awards on January 13, 2003 in Rheine.

Works

In his extraordinarily extensive oeuvre, sacred art takes up the greatest part ; He alone made over 300 depictions of the Way of the Cross . He designed churches, chapels and tombstones all over Germany, especially in the diocese of Münster and in north-west Germany. His small bronzes were widely used as communion, confirmation and wedding gifts.

gallery

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  Path of Sorrows (1951) in the Jewish cemetery at Johannisfriedhof in Osnabrück

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  Baptistery of the All Saints Church in Nuremberg with baptismal font by Joseph Krautwald

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  Grave monument of the factory owner Konrad Methner in Ziegenhals

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  Marien stele at the "Witten Porte" in Herten-Westerholt

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  The mother

Honors

• 1982 - Culture Prize of the City of Rheine
• 1986 - Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
• 1997 - Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
• 2001 - Gold City Medal of Rheine for special merits

literature

• Winfried Ashoff: The sculptor Joseph Krautwald. A life for the representation of the strength and beauty of the Christian faith , in Michael Hirschfeld (Ed.): Lived faith, hope for home. Catholic expellees in the diocese of Münster . Münster 1999, pp. 239-262
• Cornelia Ruholl: The works of Joseph Krautwald are confessions by the wayside , in: Our district 2005. Yearbook for the Steinfurt district . Druckhaus Tecklenborg, Steinfurt 2004, ISBN 3-92-6619-72-4 , pp. 172-174
• Joseph Krautwald, photos / concept: Norma Sukup. Rheine: Heimatverein Rheine 1877, 2007. ISBN 978-3-00-021605-3

Web links

Commons : Joseph Krautwald  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Article about Joseph Krautwald on the website of the Münster diocese
• Example of a way of the cross (St. Saturnina, Bad Driburg-Neuenheerse)
• Exhibition in the Falkenhof Museum, Rheine
• Glatzer wayside shrine in Telgte
• The hearing in the Herz-Jesu-Krankenhaus, Münster
• Wayside shrine at the St. Josef Kindergarten, Cloppenburg
• Relief on the main altar of the parish church of St. Marien, Oer-Erkenschwick

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brochure of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, Department: Planning and Building, Issue 103, p. 36, January 2010