Karl Groß (artist)
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
- 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
- Great, 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 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 99 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Gross, Karl . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 317 .
- Fritz Löffler : Great, Karl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 142 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Folke Stimmel, Reinhardt Eigenwill and others: Stadtlexikon Dresden. Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1994, p. 163.
- Handbook of German Art Monuments : Dresden. (Special volume) Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich and Berlin 2005.
- Petra Klara Gamke: Karl Groß. Tradition as innovation. Dresden reform art at the beginning of the modern age (= illuminations. Heidelberger Schriften zur Kunst Volume 1). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2005
- Petra Klara Gamke-Breitschopf: Great, Karl . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 63, Saur, Munich a. a. 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23030-1 , p. 123.
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ Gruna: School Neugruna. In: dresdner-stadtteile.de. Retrieved June 27, 2016 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Karl Groß in the catalog of the German National Library
- Archived page on the personal exhibition in Fürstenfeldbruck (with portrait) ( Memento from August 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Great, Karl |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gross, Karl (alternative spelling) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor and goldsmith |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 28, 1869 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Fürstenfeldbruck |
DATE OF DEATH | October 5, 1934 |
Place of death | Dresden |