Karl Allöder

Karl Allöder (born April 6, 1898 in Wulften / Badbergen ; † April 23, 1981 there ) was a German sculptor , painter and violin maker .

Life

Allöder came from a rural family, his father was a wood turner . After primary school, Karl Allöder attended private school in Badbergen in 1908, where he also learned Latin and English. His teachers became aware of his artistic talent and were of the opinion that it should be encouraged. But his parents decided that he should learn a "solid" profession. Allöder completed an apprenticeship as a tradesman, one year as a turner, two years as a carpenter and passed the journeyman's examination in 1917. He was then called up for military service and initially stationed in Cologne. In 1918, he was a gunner at the front in World War I used.

After the end of the First World War, he briefly attended Ulrichs' private drawing school in Osnabrück and in 1920 went to the arts and crafts school in Kassel, where he studied visual art and nudes. At the same time he was an intern at the Kassel Art Academy and did painting and art history . He was awarded the 2nd prize for the design of a war memorial , which the city of Kassel bought. In 1922 Allöder moved to the Hamburg Art Academy , where he studied sculpture with Lukasch.

In 1927 he went on an extended trip to Italy with longer stays in Milan , Florence , Rome , Naples , Pompeii and back via Munich . He then studied nude drawing with Wilhelm Renfordt in Osnabrück and participated in numerous exhibitions in Osnabrück, Bremen, Hamburg, Kassel, Hanover and Oldenburg in the following years.

At the beginning of the Second World War in 1939 he was drafted again and stationed in France. His unit was on the Western Front and marched as far as the Loire in 1940. In 1941 he was dismissed for reasons of age, but obliged to do homeland service. He settled back in his birthplace, where he lived until his death. He is buried in the Protestant churchyard in Badbergen.

Work (selection)

His versatility as a visual artist encompassed almost all artistic possibilities: oil paintings, graphics, watercolors, sculptures, reliefs, woodwork, traditional costumes, wood-carved signposts, models of farmhouses for museums, gable beam inscriptions, restoration of old furniture, Christ statues, Madonna figures, portrait sculptures, portraits in oil and other more. His oeuvre is correspondingly broad .

His last exhibition took place in March 1974 in the district museum Bersenbrück, where he showed 54 works.

• The wooden sculpture of Quakenbrücker Burgmann is in Hamburg's town hall as a gift from the city of Quakenbrück to the twin city of Hamburg.
• A stone crucifix stands as a reminder for the believers in the Catholic churchyard in Badbergen.
• A carved trumpet angel adorns the canopy of the pulpit in the Protestant church of St. Georg in Karl Allöder's home parish.
• A large stone relief tells the children of the Protestant elementary school in Badbergen the legend of the fight between St. George and the dragon.
• A life-size bronze eagle stands on a boulder and holds its large wings over the large stone. This stands in front of the former agricultural school in Quakenbrück .
• In the city museum of Quakenbrück there is a bust that Allöder created by the well-known East Prussian painter Döbner.
• Set in a boulder, a bronze relief commemorates the merits of the former district administrator Hermann Rothert in Bersenbrück .
• In Wulften, between the two rivers Hase and Lake, there used to be a swamp where a donkey brought people and loads over. A bridge was later built and Allöder made a bronze plaque with a donkey, which is embedded in a pillar of the bridge.
• Allöder made three scale models of farmhouses for the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg: the Meierhof zu Wehdel, the Roten Hauberg near Husum and a farmhouse from the Altes Land near Hamburg.
• In Hüven im Hümmling there is a combined water and windmill from the 16th century ( Hüvener Mühle ). Allöder made a model of this for the Landesmuseum Hannover in the 1930s before it fell into disrepair. Only later was it placed under monument protection and restored at great expense. Allöder's model was a great help here. And the model of the Wehlburg, an Artland farmhouse, can also be seen in Hanover. It was dismantled and rebuilt in the museum village in Cloppenburg.
• In the museum in the Bersenbrück monastery there is a model of the Wehlburg court made before 1932, which Allöder made. Allöder had also made two carved figure dolls that were created at the same time for the exhibition of rural clothing (peasant costume - one figure each of a farmer and a farmer's wife) for the Bersenbrück district museum at the time - they are no longer available, but documented by picture postcards
• War memorials in Quakenbrück , Badbergen and Gehrde

Landscape painting

It was August Kaufhold , a student of the animal painter Heinrich von Zügel , who inspired Allöder to paint landscapes in his youth. By chance the boy met the painter Kaufhold while he was with relatives in Dötlingen on vacation. He stood at the stand with an easel, palette and paint box and painted a landscape motif of nature. This coming together was the beginning of a lifelong friendship. Many years later, Karl Allöder met Bernhard Winter from Oldenburg . He often visited him in his Oldenburg villa upstairs in the studio under the glass roof. There he got a lot of suggestions for portrait painting.

The violin maker

Allöder also devoted himself to violin making after the Second World War . He built over 30 violins, cellos, violas and double basses, which were also played by concert master Flecken from the Oldenburg State Orchestra and musicians from the Ossenbrügge Municipal Orchestra from Münster.

literature

• Hanns-Gerd Rabe: Osnabrück art and artists. 1900 to 1970 . 1974

Web links

• Karl Allöder