Karl Tutter

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Karl Tutter (born September 28, 1883 in Neudeck, Kingdom of Bohemia , Austria-Hungary , † March 28, 1969 in Selb ) was an Austro-German sculptor , painter and porcelain maker .

Life

Tutter received his artistic training in Austria. Here he studied eight semesters at an art school. He completed his one and a half year private study in drawing and painting with Josef Mayr. During the First World War , Tutter was imprisoned for six years, which he spent in Khabarovsk , Eastern Siberia . Here he modeled in the State Museum of Regional Studies under the direction of the explorer Vladimir Klawdijewitsch Arsenjew . He then worked as a modeller at the royal privileged porcelain factory in Tettau . He then worked for the Sitzendorfer porcelain factory . In 1922 he was employed as a modeller at the Lorenz Hutschenreuther porcelain factory . Soon he and Carl Werner held the artistic direction of the art department there; With which both contributed significantly to the success of the manufactory. Tutter created a diverse ceramic work there until 1956.

Tutter mastered the language of design. With great imagination he created expressive and easy-to-sell sculptures. The palette of his designs ranged from pompous, lovely putti candlesticks to strictly stylized figures in the style of Art Deco . He participated in exhibitions in Prague, in Munich at the Great German Art Exhibition in the House of German Art , as well as in Regensburg, Bayreuth, Kulmbach and elsewhere.

In 1941 he received the prize for plastic in Bayreuth.

Works (selection)

  • Girl dance
  • Till Eulenspiegel
  • Mephisto
  • Sun child
  • After the bath
  • Ariadne
  • jealousy
  • final

reception

On April 14, 2019, an episode of the NDR's Lieb & Teuer program was broadcast, moderated by Janin Ullmann and filmed in Reinbek Castle . In it, a porcelain figure was discussed with the art historian Christiane Blumenthal, which Tutter designed for Hutschenreuther and which bears the title Jealousy .

literature

  • Hans Vollmer : General Lexicon of the Fine Artists of the 20th Century. EASeemann Verlag, Leipzig 1953–1958. Volume IV (QU), p. 484.
  • Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker : General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present. EA Seemann Verlag, Leipzig 1907–1950
  • Joachim Busse : International handbook of all painters and sculptors of the 19th century. Busse art documentation. Frankfurt 1977.
  • 100 years of porcelain. , Hutschenreuther, Selb 1957
  • Fine porcelain. Figures from the porcelain factory Lorenz Hutschenreuther. Braunschweig 1960, p. 14.
  • Porcelain from an artist's hand. Figures by Hutschenreuther. Hutschenreuther, Selb 1976, p. 127.
  • Wilhelm Siemen: Schwarzburger workshops for porcelain art . Museum of the Germans. Porcelain industry, Hohenberg
  • Wilhelm Siemen: The Twenties. German porcelain between inflation and depression. The Art Deco era ?! Writings and catalogs of the Museum of the German Porcelain Industry, Volume 30, Hohenberg / Eger 1992, p. 248.
  • Wilhelm Siemen: 175 years of Hutschenreuther. A contribution to the company's anniversary in 1989.
  • Klaus Weber: Ceramics and Bauhaus . Catalog for the exhibition in Berlin, 1989
  • Dieter Zühlsdorff: Ceramic brands lexicon . 2nd edition, 1994

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Individual evidence

  1. Since there is no birth entry in the church records of Neudek , another place must be meant.
  2. Hutschenreuther porcelain figure . In: Lieb & Teuer from April 14, 2019.