Julius Starcke

This article is about the sculptor Julius Starcke. For other people see Julius Starck .

Julius Starcke (born 1895 in Stabeshöhe , Uckermark , died at the end of March 1945 in Berlin ) was a German sculptor .

Julius Starcke grew up in the Uckermark and attended a grammar school in Prenzlau . From 1910 to 1913 he trained in the architecture and sculpture Schirmer in Berlin. Then he attended the arts and crafts school in Berlin. During World War I he served in the German army and fought as a soldier in France, Poland, Russia and the Balkans. After the war he returned to the School of Applied Arts in Berlin. His first works were animal studies in the Berlin zoo. From 1920 to 1923 he studied at the Munich Art Academy , and from 1923 he was a student at the Berlin Art Academy .

In 1923 he worked for the city of Berlin in the restoration of the equestrian statue of Frederick the Great , which was badly damaged in 1918 during the November Revolution . In 1926 he was involved in the restoration of the Quadriga at the Brandenburg Gate . He also created animal sculptures at the Ishtar Gate in the Pergamon Museum and at the Märkisches Museum . In 1936 he created four striking frog statues on behalf of the Supreme Construction Management Reichsautobahn Berlin for a motorway bridge on what is now the 10th federal motorway over the Löcknitz . From 1940 to 1945 he was head of the metal class at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin. In 1943 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht . He had a fatal accident at the end of March 1945 during rescue work after an air raid.

Starcke had been married since 1925 and had three children. His son Dietrich Starcke (born 1929) and his son Hans Starcke (1957–2015) also worked as sculptors.

Web links

• Julius Starcke on artnet.com
• The Berlin Froschbrücke , autobahngeschichte.de with a portrait of Julius Starke