Jutta Bossard-Krull

Jutta Bossard-Krull with a bust of Walter Ahrens, Blankenese

Dorothea (Jutta) Bossard-Krull (born July 6, 1903 in Buxtehude , † October 13, 1996 in Lüllau ) was a German sculptor and ceramist .

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Jutta Krull was a daughter of the secondary school teacher Ernst Krull and his wife Auguste, nee Möller. She had five older siblings. Krull, who was nicknamed “Poodle” as a child, graduated from the Lyceum in Stade and then did a compulsory year in the household of her parents. At a young age, she expressed the desire to attend an art school. Women had only been allowed to do this a few years earlier. Krull studied from 1921 at the Hamburg School of Applied Arts . She majored in ceramics with Max Wünsche, with sculpture as a minor with Johann Michael Bossard . She also took courses in literature and art history with Wilhelm Niemeyer . During the course of her studies she set other priorities by taking sculpture as a major and ceramics as a minor. In this election, she benefited from Bossard, who did not want to subject his students to strict principles. In 1926 she wrote her thesis. The commissioned work was a bronze tomb figure with the designation "Mother with Child".

During his studies, Krull had visited an exhibition by her teacher Bossard in the Museum of Art and Commerce , which Max Sauerlandt had organized on the occasion of the artist's 50th birthday. She later visited Bossard's home and studio in Lüllau with fellow students. She got to know his paintings and the idea of ​​wanting to create a total work of art in the heath. After completing his studies, Krull planned a trip to Paris , but first paid Bossard a farewell visit to the arts and crafts school. Her former teacher invited her to spend the weekend with him at his house during the visit. There he proposed marriage to Krull, who was almost 30 years his junior. On the evening of the engagement, Bossard declared that he wanted to build an "art temple" that would offer a "place for inner contemplation". Krull was enthusiastic about the idea and dedicated her next life to it.

After the wedding on August 11, 1926 in Buxtehude , Jutta Bossard-Krull and her husband began building the temple one month later. During the work, which took them two years, the couple lived in Hamburg and used their free time for artistic work in Jesteburg . Jutta Bossard-Krull made most of the figurative sculptures, for which she used ceramics, wood and bronze. She also created the handicrafts and textile objects. In the meantime, Johann Michael Bossard created large-format paintings and dedicated himself to metalwork. From 1929 both received support from Jutta Krull's older sister Wilma, who took over the house and animal management.

Jutta Bossard-Krull was a student at the School of Applied Arts until 1938. Alongside her studies, she took courses in music and sculpture. After the destruction of Hamburg as part of Operation Gomorrah , the couple moved their permanent residence to Jesteburg, where Johann Michael Bossard died on March 27, 1950. From then on, Jutta Bossard-Krull made it her life's work to preserve the total work of art that she had created together with her husband. For this, she created sculptural commissioned works, including busts of doctors for the hospital in Hamburg-Harburg around 1970 . She also campaigned for a foundation and a museum. In November 1995 the Foundation Kunststätte Johann und Jutta Bossard took over the last surviving total work of art in northern Germany and Jutta Bossard-Krull's private property.

Jutta Bossard-Krull died about a year later in October 1996.

literature

• Karin von Behr: Bossard-Krull, Jutta . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 4 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-8353-0229-7 , pp. 62-63 .
• Rainer Schomann (Ed.), Urs Boeck : Bossard Garden near Jesteburg in: Historical Gardens in Lower Saxony, catalog for the state exhibition, opening on June 9, 2000 in the foyer of the Lower Saxony state parliament in Hanover . Hannover, 2000, pp. 178-179.