Karl Gimmi

Karl Gimmi (born October 13, 1870 in Heilbronn ; † 1960 according to another source † 1955) was a German sculptor .

life and work

Karl Gimmi studied at the Art Academy in Berlin with Otto Lessing , in London and New York . He became a student of Adolf von Donndorf at the Stuttgart Art Academy . He worked in particular in architectural sculpture . For the court theater in Stuttgart he created the attic figure of the " art of acting" and for the crematorium there in the Prague cemetery the reliefs Four generations . The parapet figures of mask heads at the Old Theater in Heilbronn also come from him. For the northern gable of the Zeppelin-Gymnasium Stuttgart he designed the semi-sculptural figure Apollo . In 1913 he made the court fountain for the Schickhardt School in Stuttgart.

His Sparkassenbrunnen , which was built in 1919 on the corner of Stiftstrasse and Grabenstrasse in Stuttgart in front of the municipal savings bank building based on a design from 1910, was well known. The original fountain by Gimmi consisted of a sculpture depicting the Stuttgart Rössle with a coin in its front hooves. It was crowned with a ball that was supported by pillars with depictions of Hans in luck with a pig. The Gimmi fountain was destroyed in World War II and completely redesigned by Alfred Lörcher after 1955 .

The artist's work has been featured in exhibitions several times. In the exhibition in the Glaspalast in Munich in 1904 he showed his sculpture Male Bust . The female figure made of marble could be seen at the Great Art Exhibition in Stuttgart in 1913 .

Stuttgart, State Theater, attic figure of the art of acting
Altes Theater Heilbronn, mask head (design Theodor Fischer)
Altes Theater Heilbronn, mask head (design Theodor Fischer)

literature

Julius Baum u. a .: Contemporary art in Stuttgart. Berlin 1913, p. 192, 296.
Gimmi, Karl . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 14 : Giddens-Gress . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1921, p. 59 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Gimmi, Karl . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 54, Saur, Munich a. a. 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-22794-3 , p. 302.

Individual evidence

↑ Date of death according to the Heilbronn city archive, contemporary history collection, signature ZS-16402, entry on Karl Gimmi in the Heuss database.
↑ The return of the heads from theater-heilbronn.de.
↑ German construction newspaper. 46, 1912, p. 733 with illustration.
^ Hugo Licht: Das Stadttheater in Heilbronn (special print o. Volume of the journal for architecture and building Der Profanbau ) Verlag JJ Arnd, Leipzig 1913; Robert Bauer: The building history. In: Neckar-Zeitung (special edition for the inauguration of the Heilbronner Stadttheater) of September 30, 1913.
↑ Wasmuth's monthly magazine for architecture. 1, 1914/15, p. 440. 443 Fig. 535.
↑ Stuttgart Brünnele Foundation ; Website of the city of Stuttgart ; View before destruction .

personal data
SURNAME	Gimmi, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	October 13, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH	Heilbronn
DATE OF DEATH	1955 or 1960

[ZS-16402-1] Date of death according to the Heilbronn city archive, contemporary history collection, signature ZS-16402, entry on Karl Gimmi in the Heuss database.

[2] The return of the heads from theater-heilbronn.de.

[3] German construction newspaper. 46, 1912, p. 733 with illustration.

[4] Hugo Licht: Das Stadttheater in Heilbronn (special print o. Volume of the journal for architecture and building Der Profanbau ) Verlag JJ Arnd, Leipzig 1913; Robert Bauer: The building history. In: Neckar-Zeitung (special edition for the inauguration of the Heilbronner Stadttheater) of September 30, 1913.

[5] Wasmuth's monthly magazine for architecture. 1, 1914/15, p. 440. 443 Fig. 535.

[6] Stuttgart Brünnele Foundation ; Website of the city of Stuttgart ; View before destruction .