Konstantin Frick

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Konstantin Frick (born June 3, 1907 in Munich ; † August 3, 2001 there ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Konstantin Frick was the son of Anna Bschlagngaul (1877–1925) and Constantin Frick (1855–1929). On January 7, 1937, he married Ingeborg Maria Elisabeth Cropp (* October 11, 1911; † 1998).

Frick completed a stonemason apprenticeship and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . In 1929, after the death of his father, he took over his parents' stonemason and stone carving company, which had created the war memorial (Unterhaching) in 1925 . He designed numerous tombs in almost all Munich cemeteries. In 1934 he won first place in a competition for the sculptural design of the entrance pillars of the Berlin Waldbühne , but was not commissioned to carry it out.

Works

Munich

  • Ostfriedhof bei Krematorium 1958: For their convictions, brave men and women sacrificed their lives under the political and intellectual oppression of the years 1933–1945. Honor their memory.
  • Cemetery am Perlacher Forst 1963: At the corner of the concentration camp grove of honor: 4092 victims of National Socialist arbitrariness are buried here to their last rest (cs here lie buried 4092 victims of National Socialist despotism) and at the displaced persons grave here lie buried in foreign soil 1129 dead from twelve nations. Peace be with them.
  • St. Nikolaus (Munich-Hasenbergl) 1962: Foundation stone and the font made of basalt lava with the symbol of the Trinity.
    Spitzweg fountain at Stephansplatz 3
  • Spitzweg fountain at Stephansplatz 3 (1979)
  • Execution of the birds fountain at Fürstenstrasse 13
  • Ring-wave fountain in the courtyard of the primary school at Kafkastraße 9
  • Hirschbrunnen Perlacher Forst , »Harlachinger cleared«
  • Original replica of the Kurt Eisner memorial in the Ostfriedhof
  • In the former studio courtyard at Tegernseer Landstrasse 38/42, two life-size gorillas made of sandstone and shell limestone are set up.
Munich: Giesinger historical column
  • Giesing historical column on Tegernseer Platz: Stele in front of the Telapost: 1200 years of Giesing 790–1990, In commemoration of the 1919 revolution, 61 citizens from Ober- and Untergiesing were shot. The Giesinger field cross stood here until 1925, donated by the Giesingen people, Konstantin Frick Bildh. When Reichswehr troops and voluntary corps units marched into Munich on May 1, 1919 to overthrow the Soviet republic, bitter fighting broke out on Giesinger Berg, which the counter-revolutionaries only won after two days. In the Tegernseer Landstrasse there is a granite column in front of the Tela-Post in remembrance of those days, which is dedicated to 61 Giesing citizens who were murdered in 1919.
  • Protective Madonna Fountain on Mariahilfplatz (1984) based on the model of the Protective Madonna from the Mariahilfkirche, who was badly damaged in the war

Verona

1975: Fountain in Piazza Bra

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Community of Catholic men and women, one of us ( Memento from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ friedhof.stadt-muenchen, Ostfriedhof 047-2-21 ( Memento from December 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ The history of Berlin, Olympic site
  4. ^ Gavriel David Rosenfeld, Munich and Memory : Architecture, Monuments, and the Legacy of the Third Reich, p. 214
  5. ↑ Deer Fountain
  6. ^ [1] , cultural department, photography from the right: Klaus Hahnzog , Christian Ude , Inge Hügenell, Konstantin Frick, Gertraud Schmidt. P. 11 [2]
  7. ↑ Fountain in Piazza Bra
personal data
SURNAME Frick, Constantine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and architect
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH August 3, 2001
Place of death Munich