Kneeling youth

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Kneeling youth (figure)

The kneeling youth is a sculpture that stood from 1918 to 1945 on the corner of Hohlstrasse and Dillweißerstrasse in Pforzheim. Today the figure stands on Jörg-Ratgeb-Straße in the green area south of the Roßbrücke in Pforzheim . The work created by Emil Bäuerle is classified as a cultural monument.

history

Bäuerle first completed the seminar in Karlsruhe. In the years 1901 to 1904 he went to the Karlsruhe School of Applied Arts, where he completed his studies with the drawing teacher exam. He initially worked as an assistant teacher at the Pforzheimer Kunstgewerbeschule in Pforzheim. This position was converted into a teaching position in 1912. In 1920 he retired early and left the city of Pforzheim. Bäuerle sold his property with his studio and house to the shoe dealer Suss.

description

The life-size sculpture was created by the Pforzheim sculptor Emil Bäuerle (* 1881 in St. Georgen in the Black Forest ; † 1952) between 1917 and 1918.

The figure adorned formerly "youth fountain", known as the "memory of the First World War" before 1876, built on the hollow / Schwarzwaldstraße Schwarzwaldschule stood. The former fountain figure shows a "kneeling warrior" made of shell limestone . The figure was donated as a "war memory" of the First World War. For the time it was “a new artistic statement of the admonishing memory of the millions of sufferings of the soldiers in the First World War”. The figure of the "warrior sinking to the ground" holds one hand over his bowed head. With this "gesture of defenselessness and mourning", Bäuerle distanced himself from the forms of heroic war memorials that were common at the time. The figure thus has the "character of the memorial". Thus, Bäuerle's work is reminiscent of the works of Käthe Kollwitz and Ernst Barlach . The work thus stands in the "tradition of admonishing monuments, which are supposed to remind of the lost war and the immeasurable suffering of the people".

Web links

Commons : Kneeling Young Man  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Pforzheim in the First World War. A city tour today. Project of grade 9 of the Schiller-Gymnasium Pforzheim in cooperation with Claudia Baumbusch, representative for cultural education at the Pforzheim museums. Pforzheim, July 2015, p. 13; online at: cloudfront.net. accessed on April 8, 2018 ( PDF; 1.6 MB ).
  2. ↑ a b c d e Young man kneeling. In: Christoph Timm: Pforzheim, cultural monuments in the city area (= monument topography Baden-Württemberg. Volume II. Part 10: Administrative region of Karlsruhe. Volume 1: City area of ​​Pforzheim ). Verlag Regionalkultur, Ubstadt-Weiher 2004, ISBN 3-89735-221-4 , p. 348.
  3. ↑ a b Christina Klittich: In the footsteps of the villas founded in 1908, popularly known as the artist colony. Pforzheim lecturer at the goldsmiths and arts and crafts school. Lecture. November 9, 2003. In: loebliche-singer-pforzheim.de. Praiseworthy Singer Society from 1501 , accessed April 8, 2018.
  4. ^ City decorations and free sculptures ( Memento from October 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive ). In: pforzheim.de, accessed on April 8, 2018.