Julius Seitz

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Julius Seitz on an undated newspaper photo
Detail of the Pietà under the cross in the Heidelberg Jesuit Church (1905)
Grave monument for the founder of the Church of the Redeemer Betti Fischer
The sandstone relief Good Shepherd above the entrance to the Church of the Redeemer
Marienbrunnen
Mercury statue on the gable of Kaiser-Joseph-Str. 243
Christ heals a blind boy, relief at the home for the blind

Joseph Julius Seitz (born October 27, 1847 in Külsheim , † May 24, 1912 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Seitz was the eldest of ten children of the gold maker Georg Seitz. Together with his brother, the Seitz brothers, he had been creating altars ( Ladenburg , Bruchhausen, Pülfringen and Tauberbischofsheim ) since the beginning of the 1820s and participated in church restorations ( Appenweier , Ettlingenweier and Külsheim).

Julius Seitz, prepared for this by private lessons from the local pastor dean Zimmermann, skipped the first two classes of the grammar school in Tauberbischofsheim and began an apprenticeship with his father. In 1865 he moved to Darmstadt's Hofvergolder Büttner and shortly afterwards to Würzburg. There he studied until 1867 at the Maxschule under the history painter Andreas Leimgrub (1817–1890) and the sculptor Häusler. He then worked as a gilder in the Mayer'schen Hofkunstanstalt in Munich, and on January 9, 1868, began studying at the Munich Art Academy , where he devoted himself to the religious and figural sculpting subject and created figures of saints and altars for various churches.

He visited the World Exhibition in Vienna in 1873 before going on a study trip to Rome and around 1875 spent a year with Michael Arnold in Bad Kissingen. His return to Rome in 1879 was made possible by a travel grant from Grand Duke Friedrich I of Baden . In 1878 the Grand Duke saw the sculpture in Karlsruhe with which Seitz won the competition Influence of Art on Business in 1877 . While dealing with Italian art in Rome, he met the church and art historian Franz Xaver Kraus , for whose grave he made a figure after his death in 1901.

On October 25, 1883, Seitz married Maria Anna Aline Zotz (* February 16, 1862, † September 14, 1910) in the Heitersheimer Kirche St. Bartholomäus . She was the granddaughter of Karl Zotz, the founder of the later Julius Zotz winery . The couple moved to Freiburg and bought the house at Hebelstrasse 11 with a studio and garden (destroyed in 1944). Seitz had five daughters and one son with his wife.

He settled in Freiburg and created numerous grave monuments in his workshop, around 40 of which are still preserved today. He later decorated the facades of several churches, including St. Johannes Nepomuk in Eberbach and that of the Monastery of the Holy Grave in Baden-Baden (1895).

Seitz led the modeling courses at the Freiburg industrial school from 1899 . His students included u. a. August Müssle , Theodor Hengst and Louis Granget . The sculptor Ferdinand Kohl was trained in Seitz's workshop. At that time Seitz was the “leading sculptor in the city” and employed a few people in his company, Seitz'sche Kunststätte .

On June 7, 1905 Seitz was appointed city councilor III for the center . Class chosen. He was later elected to the city council, but could not take up the activity due to illness. Julius Seitz died of heart failure on May 24, 1912.

His studio was taken over by the sculptor Emil Stadelhofer, who was born in Wollmating .

reception

The gravestones created by Seitz in the cemetery of Campo Santo Teutonico in Rome caught the attention of the writer Olga von Schaezler . Seitz was allowed to make a 1.40 m high sculpture of Thomas Aquinas for her from Carrara marble , which was intended for the grave of her brother Konstantin von Schaezler , who died in 1880 . From Pope Leo XIII. it is reported that he had this Seitz work brought to him and expressed his satisfaction with the "deeply religious inner comprehension of the material".

The marble memorial of Freiburg Archbishop Hermann von Vicari was described by the Freiburg Catholic Church Gazette in 1884 as a “wonderful portrait figure for permanent adornment of our cathedral” . Seitz also received this order in Rome. Kaiser Wilhelm II was full of praise for the monument to Nicolaus Copernicus in Frombork , which Seitz created together with the architect Max Meckel .

Heinrich Müller wrote five years after Seitz's death that he had “helped hundreds of his fellow citizens to survive beyond earthly existence through monuments and tombs”. On the other hand, Müller quotes an "excellent art connoisseur" as saying that Seitz was not an artist of elementary originality, but rather an eclectic . Many of his works have a strongly impersonal trait, a lack of expressiveness and spiritual immersion. Michael Klant attested Seitz a wider range of shapes in 2000 than Alois Knittel , who a quarter of a century before Seitz had left behind numerous sculptures, but limited himself to the Gothic canon of shapes . According to Klant, this was favored by the emergence of Art Nouveau . He countered the academic currents that had dominated for a century with his own invention. That is why Klant sees Seitz as the "interface between 19th and 20th century sculpture".

Works (selection)

Works outside Freiburg

Works in Freiburg

Gravestones in the main cemetery in Freiburg im Breisgau (selection)

  • Benjamin Herder († 1888), bronze relief with the resurrection of Christ
  • Konstantin von Schaezler , statue of Thomas Aquinas , destroyed in 1944
  • Franz Xaver Kraus (1840–1901), stone sarcophagus with a young Roman
  • Ernst Ziegler, bronze relief with Asclepius (1905)
  • Ludwig Thomas (1838–1907) and family, boulder from the Ravennaschlucht with antique bronze relief mother and child
  • Eduard Betzinger, triptych-like granite structure with ionic columns (1911)
  • Karl Unmüssig (field 57c), seated mourners under a crucifix
  • Wilhelm Würth, Pax-Engel (angel figure made of white stone in front of a simple stone cross)
  • Eugen Krebs , Maria of Sorrows from Savonnières for family burial chapel
  • Eduard Hummel, colored relief in sandstone aedicula (1903)
  • Heinrich Maas, archbishop's office director (1901)
  • Otto Winterer , overall design (1911, Porait bust by Stadelhofer)

literature

  • Heinrich Müller: sculptor Julius Seitz. In: Breisgauer Chronik. Supplement to the Freiburger Boten (Freiburger Volksblatt). No. 15, August 12, 1919, pp. 55-58.
  • Heinrich Müller: sculptor Julius Seitz. Continuation. In: Breisgauer Chronik. Supplement to the Freiburger Boten (Freiburger Volksblatt). No. 16, August 25, 1919, pp. 59-61.
  • Heinrich Müller: sculptor Julius Seitz. Enough. In: Breisgauer Chronik. Supplement to the Freiburger Boten (Freiburger Volksblatt). No. 18, September 25, 1919, pp. 67-59.
  • Seitz, Julius . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936, p. 472 .
  • AE Völker: Julius Seitz, the Freiburg sculptor and his work. In: Ekkhart. 1962, pp. 121-130.
  • Elmar Weiss, Irmtraut Edelmann, Helmuth Lauf (authors): History of the well town of Külsheim. 2 volumes. City of Külsheim (ed.). Tauberbischofsheim, FN Druck 1992. Volume 1. With contributions by Dieter Frank, Walter Dietz, Pastor Franz Gehrig , Herwig John, Fritz Krug. P. 322 f. ( Sculptor Julius Seitz ).
  • Michael Klant: artist prince in the province. The sculptor Julius Seitz. In: Michael Klant (Ed.): Sculpture in Freiburg. 19th century art in public spaces. modo, Freiburg im Breisgau 2000, ISBN 3-922675-77-8 , pp. 181-185.
  • Richard Schindler: Monument protection through tomb sponsorship. Sculptures by Julius Seitz (1847–1912) in Freiburg im Breisgau. Self-published, Freiburg 2006.

Web links

Commons : Works by Julius Seitz  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

References and comments

  1. ↑ Joseph Sauer : The church art of the first half of the 19th century in Baden. In: Freiburg Diocesan Archive. Volume 59, Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1931, digitized , p. 228.
  2. ↑ a b Heinrich Müller: Breisgauer Chronik. 15, p. 55.
  3. ↑ Julius Seitz matriculation entry , accessed on February 15, 2010.
  4. ↑ Heinrich Müller No. 15 pp. 55–56 describes the sculpture as follows: “Art is represented as an ideal virgin in a life-size figure in a throne chair with a leaning forward position. With the modeling wood in her right hand, she teaches a young armorer at her feet, who, beaming with joy, holds out a sword hilt towards her. The left hand of art rests on the armchair and embraces the tools of art: chisel, hammer, compass, square. At her feet on the left, deep in thought, sits a potter boy with a twisted clay jug in one hand, the modeling wood in the other hand, busy decorating the jug with figures and ornaments. "
  5. ↑ familysearch.org: Maria Anna Aline Zotz (1883). In: Germany, Marriages, 1558–1929. Retrieved April 8, 2012.
  6. ↑ familysearch.org: Maria Anna Aline Zotz . In: Germany, Births and Baptisms, 1558–1898. Retrieved April 8, 2012.
  7. ^ Abbey school of the Holy Sepulcher, state-approved high school in Baden-Baden: The history of the monastery school , accessed on August 11, 2016.
  8. ^ A b c Leonard Korth: The care of the fine arts in the present. In: Freiburg im Breisgau. The city and its buildings. Badischer Architecten- und Ingenieur-Verein, Freiburg 1898, p. 604 ( full text , [ Wikisource ]).
  9. ↑ Michael Klant: Forgotten sculptors. In: Sculpture in Freiburg. 19th century art in public spaces. Freiburg 2000, ISBN 3-922675-77-8 , pp. 164-172, pp. 170 f.
  10. ↑ Klant, p. 183.
  11. ↑ The city council elections of the III. Class. In: Freiburg newspaper . June 8, 1905, p. 3 ( uni-freiburg.de ).
  12. ^ Heinrich Müller Breisgauer Chronik. 15, p. 56.
  13. ↑ a b Werner Wolf-Holzäpfel: The architect Max Meckel 1847-1910. Studies on the architecture and church building of historicism in Germany. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2000, ISBN 3-933784-62-X , p. 289.
  14. ^ Heinrich Müller Breisgauer Chronik. No. 18, p. 69.
  15. ^ Michael Klant: Artist Prince in the Province. The sculptor Julius Seitz. In: Michael Klant (Ed.): Sculpture in Freiburg. 19th century art in public spaces. Freiburg 2000, ISBN 3-922675-77-8 , p. 182.
  16. ^ Johann Friedrich von Schulte:  Theiner, Augustin . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 37, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, pp. 674-677.
  17. ^ Albrecht Weiland: The Campo Santo Teutonico in Rome and its grave monuments. Volume 1, Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1988, ISBN 3-451-20882-2 , pp. 576 and 776, figures 91 and 142.
  18. ^ Karl Schmid; Hans Schadek: The Zähringer. Volume 2: Impulse and Effect. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1986, ISBN 3-7995-7041-1 , p. 371.
  19. ↑ Eberhard Weiß: Well renovation finished: Mary's hands are blessing again. The old Marienbrunnen on Chorregentengässli can now be seen in new splendor thanks to donations. In: Badische Zeitung. October 9, 2008 ( badische-zeitung.de ).
  20. ↑ Friedrich Kempf: Public fountains and monuments. In: Freiburg im Breisgau. The city and its buildings. HM Poppen & Sohn, Freiburg 1898, p. 487 ( full text , [ Wikisource ]).
  21. ↑ Hans Sigmund: Freiburg: Once flanked by bronze emperors. In: Badische Zeitung. September 15, 2008 ( badische-zeitung.de ).
  22. ^ Hermann Mayer: Unterlinden in Freiburg . In: Schau-ins-Land 61 (1934), pp. 78–84; here p. 80 f.
  23. ↑ Plaque on the grave .
  24. ^ Hans Sigmund: Church of the Redeemer at the Old Cemetery has existed since 1895. In: Badische Zeitung . June 12, 2006 ( freiburg-schwarzwald.de ).
  25. ↑ Manfred Gallo: A bishop's staff as street lighting. GOODBYE! In 1904 the vita of the clothing store Bollerer, first partner and then successor of the Rumöller company, began at Kaiser-Joseph-Straße 243. In: Badische Zeitung. August 4, 2008 ( badische-zeitung.de ).
  26. ↑ Werner Wolf-Holzäpfel: The architect Max Meckel 1847-1910. Studies on the architecture and church building of historicism in Germany. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2000, ISBN 3-933784-62-X , p. 177.
  27. ↑ Ute Scherb: We get the monuments we deserve. Freiburg monuments in the 19th and 20th centuries. Freiburg 2005, ISBN 3-923272-31-6 , p. 131, note 189.
  28. ^ Hans Sigmund: Gertrud-Luckner-Gewerbeschule in Kirchstrasse. In: Badische Zeitung . March 13, 2008 ( freiburg-schwarzwald.de ).
personal data
SURNAME Seitz, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Külsheim
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 1912
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau