Karl Kerzinger

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Karl or Carl Kerzinger (born September 16, 1890 in Heidelberg , † December 24, 1959 in Stuttgart ) was a German sculptor and draftsman.

Life

Karl Kerzinger was born on September 16, 1890 in Heidelberg as the son of the pottery manufacturer Franz Kerzinger. After an apprenticeship as a ceramist, he studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule and the Kunstakademie in Stuttgart. In 1922 he married the sculptor Lilli Kerzinger-Werth . The couple lived and lived in Stuttgart from then on.

Karl Kerzinger died in 1959 at the age of 69, his wife outlived him by 12 years and died on November 4, 1971 at the age of 74. He, his wife and his parents were buried in the Fangelsbach cemetery in Stuttgart. The grave was cleared in 1998.

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Ceramic reliefs

In 1926/1927 Karl Kerzinger created ceramic wall coverings for the surgical clinic of the municipal hospital in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt, especially for the seating niches in the corridors. A relief shows a sleeping hunter under a towering tree, which his potential victims, rabbits and deer, are watching with interest. In another relief, a young woman is leaning against the trunk of a tall tree, while an admirer with a bouquet of flowers approaches at a fast pace.

Around 1930 Karl Kerzinger received the order for the ceramic decoration of pillars and corridors of the Württemberg State Midwifery School in Stuttgart-Berg. The idyllic reliefs he created are stepped like a staircase and show a mother with her baby, surrounded by sprouting plants, and a couple with their baby, flanked by a towering tree and a stylized house as a symbol of family security.

The art historian Frank Matthias Kammel comments on Karl Kerzinger's ceramic reliefs in an article that deals with his reliefs, among other things:

“Alignment on a flat picture stage, graphic conception and simple narrative structure of the harmless compositions give Kerzinger's three-dimensional pictures the moment of internalization and the style of illustration. While the figures composed in front of the depthless image ground borrow more moderately from the expressionist body image, the putti with cornucopia that serve as wall lights reflect the formal language of the late Art Nouveau and thus document not least the eclectic way of working of the Stuttgart artist, who is clearly aware of the various formal languages ​​of the early 20th century knew how to operate confidently. "

The reliefs have not been preserved. A tile of the ceramic reliefs by Karl Kerzinger ("relief plate with a singing bird") was saved. It is kept in the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg. Due to the copyright situation, the historical photos shown in the article cannot be reproduced.

Others

Memorial plaque for Philipp Wolfrum.

Several other works by Karl Kerzinger are mentioned in the literature. The memorial plaque for Philipp Wolfrum has been preserved, nothing is known about the state of preservation of the other works.

In 1956/1957 Karl Kerzinger illustrated two books by the Palatinate dialect author Karl Ludwig Münnich , Gebabbel uf der Neckarbank and An sellem rund Disch , the latter together with his wife.

Great German art exhibition

Karl Kerzinger took part in the Great German Art Exhibition in Munich three times between 1938 and 1941 . In 1938 and 1941 he exhibited the seated figure of a bathing woman in marble and in 1939 and 1941 a bronze bust by Siegfried Wagner, but did not find any buyers for his works. His wife was luckier, she was able to sell five objects at the exhibition between 1938 and 1944.

Memberships

literature

  • Frank Matthias Kammel : A relief plate with a singing bird by Karl Kerzinger. To the architectural ceramics of the Mosbach company Nerbel & Hausleiter. In: Kulturgut: from the research of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum , issue 24, 1st quarter 2010, pages 5–9, online .
  • Karl Ludwig Münnich : Babbling uf the Neckarbank. Drawings by Carl Kerzinger. Heidelberg 1956.
  • Karl Ludwig Münnich : To sellem round Disch: Stories and poems in Palatinate dialect. Drawings by Carl Kerzinger and Lilli Kerzinger-Werth. Heidelberg 1957.
  • Erich Schlenker : Swabian sculpture of the present. Their attitude and their special expressions. In: Swabia. Monthly booklets for folklore and culture . Year 12, 1940, pages 593–615, here 603.
  • Stuttgart address books, 1800–1943 , online .
  • Kerzinger, Karl . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 41 .
  • Hermann Ziegler: Fangelsbach cemetery. Stuttgart 1994, page 69.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ #Ziegler 1994 , #Stuttgarter address books .
  2. ↑ #Ziegler 1994 .
  3. ↑ #Kammel 2010 , pages 8–9.
  4. ↑ #Vollmer 1956 .
  5. ↑ #Schlenker 1940 .
  6. ↑ #Vollmer 1956 .
  7. ↑ #Vollmer 1956 .
  8. ↑ # Münnich 1956 , # Münnich 1957 .
  9. ^ Research platform on the Great German Art Exhibitions 1937-1944 .
  10. ↑ In the files of the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts, Berlin State Management, there is a "Carl Kerzinger Personal File", see Finding aid , page 265.
personal data
SURNAME Kerzinger, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kerzinger, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1959
Place of death Stuttgart