Karl Hemmeter

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Crucifix in the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (Berlin)

Karl Hemmeter (born February 18, 1904 in Weißenburg , † August 6, 1986 in Munich ) was a German sculptor and artist .

Life

Carrying the cross at the collegiate church in Stuttgart, 1956

Karl Hemmeter was born in 1904 as the second son of Sophie and Friedrich Hemmeter into a strictly Protestant but also very poor family. He was born at Heigertgasse 7 . As early as the first year of life he contracted rickets and as a result suffered from bilateral hip dislocation, which only allowed him to limp when he was three years old.

The circumstances forced the then 15-year-old to do an apprenticeship in his father's workshop. From 1924 Hemmeter was allowed to attend the Nuremberg School of Applied Arts (at that time the “State School for Applied Arts”) and there learned wood engraving from Rudolf Schiestl .
From 1925 he was studying sculpture as a student of Wilhelm Nida-Rümelin . In autumn 1926, after successfully passing the entrance exam with Joseph Wackerle , he moved to the Art Academy in Munich and completed his studies there. He financed his studies with scholarships from his birthplace Weißenburg and other helpers. From 1932 Karl Hemmeter worked as an independent artist. He named Ernst Barlach as one of his main artistic role models .

Karl Hemmeter married Els Endl in 1934 , settled in his own house in Großhadern and had four children.

Hemmeter made six bronze copies of his templates, some of which were made or carved in wood on behalf of private patrons, which he then destroyed again. Nevertheless, the financial value of the works he sold has grown only marginally since their origins. There is virtually no gallery owner who would have stood up for the artist, and his children also do not organize exhibitions or retrospectives of their father's works because they believe that enough of them can be seen in public space.

Works (selection)

One of the first large commissions was a life-size crucifix for St. Andreas in Weißenburg (1928) and a crucifix in the Evangelical Church Office in Munich (today on loan in St. Katharinen (Kiev) ), which made him known in church circles throughout Bavaria. Numerous, mostly church orders followed.

Hemmeter worked with wood, stone and bronze. He used it to create sculptures, deep reliefs, wood engravings, lecterns, portraits, tombs, fountains, architectural sculptures and monuments.

Awards

literature

  • Karl Hemmeter, Karl Baur [employee]: The sculptor Karl Hemmeter. From his work . With an introduction by Karl Baur. Callwey, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-7667-0798-1

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. Expressing people's feelings. The work of the sculptor Karl Hemmeter by Alexandra Korimorth (information on gmund-evangelisch.de , accessed on March 23, 2011). Archived from the original on February 11, 2013 ; Retrieved April 12, 2015 .
  2. ^ The works of art of the Stiftskirche Stuttgart (information on stiftskirche.de , accessed on March 1, 2011). (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; Retrieved April 12, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stiftskirche.de
  3. ^ Art in Erlangen - Art in Public Space . Retrieved April 12, 2015 .
  4. The washing of feet by Karl Hemmeter in Olaf Kühl-Freudenstein: Old churches - rediscovered. Church pedagogy using the example of the Johannis, Deutschhaus and Stephanskirche in Würzburg , JH Röll Verlag, September 2005, ISBN 3-89754-236-6 (link on Google Books)
  5. ^ Chronicle of the Deutschhausgemeinde , (PDF file, 1.3 MB, accessed on March 1, 2011)
  6. Thinker in the ORH meeting room , (accessed on July 4, 2012). Archived from the original on November 15, 2011 ; Retrieved April 12, 2015 .