Karl Groß (artist)

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Karl Groß (born January 28, 1869 in Fürstenfeldbruck ; † October 5, 1934 in Dresden ) was a German sculptor , goldsmith and art teacher who also worked as a publicist.

Life

Groß came from a family of stonemasons from Fürstenfeldbruck . After the early death of his father, the family moved to Munich , where Groß, at the age of 14, was taught by goldsmith Fritz von Miller at the Munich School of Applied Arts, among others . Groß worked in von Miller's workshop for nine years after completing his training. Greater attention was paid to Groß in 1897 after the 7th International Art Exhibition in Munich's Glaspalast , where he presented art objects with vegetable elements for the first time together with other artists such as August Endell , Richard Riemerschmid and Hermann Obrist . Groß is one of the earliest artists of German Art Nouveau . As early as 1906 his name can be found in the membership directory of the German Association of Artists .

Groß started his own business as a goldsmith and sculptor and went to Dresden. In 1898 he became a lecturer in goldsmithing and architectural sculpture at the Dresden School of Applied Arts , founded in 1875 , which he led from 1914 to 1934 as the successor to William Lossow as director. The decision to separate the School of Applied Arts and the Museum of Applied Arts falls under his directorate . Groß died in Dresden in 1934.

Groß worked in a wide variety of arts and crafts. As a goldsmith, he made candlesticks and banisters as well as the council silver of the city of Dresden, which was destroyed in 1945. As a sculptor, Groß was involved in the ornamental design of numerous Dresden churches. Many objects created by Groß were destroyed in the bombing of Dresden in 1945. For example, the ornamental design of the Christ Church in Dresden has been preserved. Today, among others, the Bavarian National Museum , the Munich City Museum , the Dresden Museum of Applied Arts and the Württemberg State Museum have works by Groß.

From July 5 to November 11, 2007, the Fürstenfeldbruck City Museum dedicated an exhibition to him under the title “Karl Groß. Masters of Art Nouveau ”.

Works

Large created the reliefs of Luther and Paul (next to the cross) of the Christ Church
  • 1900: Altar (collaboration), pulpit and lighting fixture of the Kreuzkirche in Dresden (destroyed in 1945)
  • 1901–1906: Sculptural design (collaboration) of the Estates building in Dresden
  • 1902–1905: Plastic decoration, including deer, pelican, swan, heads of Martin Luther and Paulus, at the Christ Church in Dresden
  • 1904–1909: Portal of the new barracks of the Sonnenstein fortress in Pirna
  • 1905–1909: Sculptures, baptismal font, bas-reliefs of the pulpit and the lectern of the Reconciliation Church in Dresden
  • 1909: Building sculpture made of sandstone at the “Sieben Schwaben” high school built by Hans Erlwein in Dresden- Neugruna
  • 1910: grape-shaped candlesticks in the Sophienkirche in Dresden (destroyed in 1945)
  • 1910: Gilded ornamental grilles on the New Town Hall in Dresden
  • 1911–1912: Bronze pulpit depicting the four evangelists for the Zionskirche in Dresden, today installed in the Kreuzkirche
  • 1912: Ornamentation of the Zionskirche in Dresden (largely destroyed in 1945)
  • 1913: Banister of the Dresden theater
  • 1913: Ceramic reliefs on the mortuary of the St. Pauli cemetery in Dresden
  • Council silver of the city of Dresden (destroyed in 1945)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. s. Gross, Karl in the list of members in the catalog for the 3rd German Artists Association , Weimar 1906. p. 44 (online ; accessed on March 13, 2016)
  2. Gruna: School Neugruna. In: dresdner-stadtteile.de. Retrieved June 27, 2016 .

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