Karl Donndorf

Karl August Donndorf (born July 17, 1870 in Dresden , † October 30, 1941 in Stuttgart ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Karl Donndorf was a son of the sculptor Adolf von Donndorf . After training with his father and at the Stuttgart Art School, he continued his studies in Dresden (1892), Paris (1900) and Rome (1902), which influenced his later work by Auguste Rodin and the Greco-Roman Classical period. In 1902 he became a professor at the Art Academy in Weimar, and from 1906 he was resident and active again in Stuttgart.

Karl Donndorf was a member of the German Association of Artists and of the Freemason Lodge in Stuttgart, Wilhelm to the rising sun .

His son Wolf Donndorf (1909–1995) was the ministerial director of the arts department in the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Culture .

plant

Stuttgart
- Memorial to Prince Hermann of Saxe-Weimar (1904)
- Athenebrunnen on Karlshöhe (1911)
- Relief of musicians and charioteers on the facade of the marble hall in Weißenburgpark (1913)
- Youth Fountain Stuttgart-Ostheim (1913)
- Fountain of Fate in front of the State Theater (1914)
- Joshua and Caleb Fountain in Stuttgart-Rotenberg (1927)
- Bronze medallion by GWF Hegel for the Hegel House (1931)
- War memorial in the old churchyard (Luise- Benger- Strasse 2) in Uhlbach in front of the Andreaskirche (erected for the fallen Uhlbach citizens of the First World War and used for those of the Second World War)
Esslingen
- War memorial 1870/1871 at the town church of St. Dionys (1910)
Weimar
- Marble busts by Sophie von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach and Carl Alexander von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach for the Goethe and Schiller Archives (1898)
- Nietzsche busts for the Nietzsche archive (1903)
Guben
- Memorial to the artist Corona Schröter (1905)
- Memorial to the Lord Mayor of Guben Paul Bollmann (1914)
Dortmund
- Statues of Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm (after. Emperor Friedrich III ) and Prince Friedrich Karl at the Hohensyburg in Dortmund
Jena
- Fraternity monument 1883 on the main building of the University of Jena (1908)
Cologne
- Bust monument by Otto Leichtenstern in Cologne
other places
- Competition draft for a Bismarck national monument on the Elisenhöhe near Bingerbrück (1910; not awarded)

gallery

Esslingen:
War memorial 1870/71, St. Dionys church in
1910
Stuttgart:
Pallas-Athene-Fountain
1911
Stuttgart:
Detail of the Pallas-Athene-Fountain
Stuttgart:
Youth Fountain
1913
Stuttgart:
Fountain of Fate
1914

literature

Donndorf, Karl August (Carl) . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 9 : Delaulne-Dubois . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1913, p. 446-447 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
Donndorf, Carl . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p. 583-584 .
Oliver Class: Karl Donndorf. A late middle-class artistic career. Dissertation, University of Stuttgart 1993.

Web links

Commons : Karl Donndorf - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Detail page with photo at www.leo-bw.de

Individual evidence

↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the Deutscher Künstlerbund since it was founded in 1903 / Donndorf, Karl August ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on March 11, 2016). @1@ 2

↑ List of cultural monuments, immovable architectural and art monuments, Obertürkheim district - Uhlbach district, stuttgart.de ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF).@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.stuttgart.de

↑ Iris Brenner: Cologne Monuments 1871–1918. Aspects of bourgeois culture between art and politics. (= Publication of the Cologne City Museum. Volume #.) Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-927396-92-3 , p. 313.

↑ Max Schmid (ed.): One hundred designs from the competition for the Bismarck National Monument on the Elisenhöhe near Bingerbrück-Bingen. Düsseldorfer Verlagsanstalt, Düsseldorf 1911. (n. Pag.)

personal data
SURNAME	Donndorf, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Donndorf, Karl August (full name); Donndorf, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	July 17, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dresden
DATE OF DEATH	October 30, 1941
Place of death	Stuttgart

[1] uenstlerbund.de: Full members of the Deutscher Künstlerbund since it was founded in 1903 / Donndorf, Karl August ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on March 11, 2016). @1@ 2

[2] List of cultural monuments, immovable architectural and art monuments, Obertürkheim district - Uhlbach district, stuttgart.de ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF).@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.stuttgart.de

[3] Iris Brenner: Cologne Monuments 1871–1918. Aspects of bourgeois culture between art and politics. (= Publication of the Cologne City Museum. Volume #.) Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-927396-92-3 , p. 313.

[4] Max Schmid (ed.): One hundred designs from the competition for the Bismarck National Monument on the Elisenhöhe near Bingerbrück-Bingen. Düsseldorfer Verlagsanstalt, Düsseldorf 1911. (n. Pag.)