Karl Killer (sculptor)
Karl Killer (born August 30, 1873 in Munich ; † October 18, 1948 there ) was a German sculptor and university lecturer .
Life
Karl Killer was born in Munich in 1873 as the son of a sculptor. Killer learned the profession of sculptor. He was a student of Ferdinand Freiherr von Miller . From 1907 to 1926 he was a teacher and professor of a sculpture class at the municipal trade school in Munich. From 1926 he was a professor for church sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . In addition, he had a teaching position for decorative sculpture at the Munich School of Applied Arts .
The focus of his work was on religious art. He mainly created crosses, altars, sculptures and candlesticks for Bavarian churches.
As a sculptor, Killer first caused an artistic sensation in 1905 with his Wittelsbach fountain monument in front of the town hall in Bad Reichenhall . This was an octagonal pool with a high column of wells that rests on four lions.
In 1907 he created the Fortunabrunnen in the Lehel district of Munich , which was financed by the Prinz Luitpold Foundation. The reason for the construction of this fountain was the redesign of the square in front of the Isartor. Killer created an allegory of the beneficial powers of water in contemporary Art Nouveau . In the middle of the octagonal fountain basin rises a three meter high bronze figure. It shows the Roman goddess of fortune Fortuna holding a richly decorated cornucopia . Little mermaids guard the gargoyles at their feet .
Killer had close ties to Darmstadt through Heinrich Jobst , who was a specialist teacher at the Munich School of Applied Arts until 1906 . Through the agency of Jobst, Killer received the order in 1909 to design the well system in front of the state mortgage bank, which was built by Paul Meissner .
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In 1908 in Rheinfelden , Killer created the statue of Cleverness and two Hercules figures made of red sandstone on the staircase in front of the east wing of the town hall .
In 1912 Georg Wickop , a colleague of Meissner's at the Technical University of Darmstadt , commissioned Killer to make a bronze bust of Bismarck for the Bismarck Tower in Constance .
During the construction of the Kaiser Wilhelm Bridge in Trier, which was built in 1913 by Paul Meissner in cooperation with the construction company Dyckerhoff & Widmann , Killer was to receive a larger order to create an equestrian statue of Kaiser Wilhelm II . Meissner asked Killer for a 1: 1 draft of the equestrian statue. He did so in anticipation of a lucrative job. However, the equestrian statue was never made because Wilhelm II categorically rejected it after the idea became known. Killer stayed at the expense, which nearly drove him to bankruptcy.
Killer lived in Munich all his life, at times in Ruffinistraße 2.
Karl Killer's wife Margarete brought two children into the marriage.
Honors
The Killerstraße in Allach-Untermenzing was named in his honor.
Works
- 1905: Wittelsbacher fountain in Bad Reichenhall (under monument protection)
- 1907: Fortunabrunnen at the Isartor in Munich
- 1908: Sculpture in the Winthirkirche in Munich
- 1909/1910: Fountain of the staircase in front of the Landeshypothekenbank and Hessian lion at the south bastion in Darmstadt
- 1912: Bismarck bust in bronze in the Bismarck tower in Constance
- 1912 two flanking female figures (day and night) at the entrance to the mausoleum for Heinrich and Marie Krumm in the old cemetery in Offenbach am Main
- around 1914: Sculptures in the middle wing of the Mozarteum in Salzburg
- War memorial for the Peterskirche in Munich
- 1923/1924: Wilhelm Haas monument in Darmstadt
- 1927: Pulpit in St. Kilian's Church in Schweinfurt
- 1946: Red marble pulpit in Augsburg Cathedral
literature
- Alexander Heilmeyer: Two competitions . In: Society for Christian Art (ed.): The Christian Art . 3rd year 1906/1907. Kunstverlag, Munich 1907, p. 165 , p. III of the enclosures ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive - Killer's draft for a bishop's monument for St. Ulrich in Dillingen, endowed with 500 marks).
- Killer, Karl . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 20 : Kaufmann – Knilling . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 306-307 .
- Killer, Karl . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 46 .
- Karl Busch : Karl Killer . In: The Minster. Journal for Christian Art and Art History . No. 3 , 1950, ISSN 0027-299X , OCLC 888631550 , p. 92-93 .
- Joachim Schmidt: Paulusplatz stories. 100 years in the ink district. Darmstadt 2014.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Website of the Hessen Preservation of Monuments, with a photo of the Krumm mausoleum in the old cemetery in Offenbach ( memento of the original from March 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Website with a close-up of the figure "Tag" by Karl Killer, at the old cemetery in Offenbach
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Killer, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 30, 1873 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 18, 1948 |
| Place of death | Munich |