Kurt Kroner

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Kurt Kroner and Ella Kroner. Photo by Aura Hertwig (1909)
Kroner's grave (Stahnsdorf)
Eichler-Bischoff grave - reburied in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf in 1939, sculptor Kurt Kroner
Gravestone figure for Minna Cauer in the Alter St. Matthew Cemetery before 1940, sculptor Kurt Kroner / photomontage 2015
Herpich Mausoleum - bench figure by Kurt Kroner, approx. 1920. Alter St. Matthew's churchyard, Berlin

Kurt Kroner (born October 23, 1885 in Breslau ; † May 10, 1929 in Munich ) was a German sculptor .

Live and act

Kroner was the son of a gynecologist. He first studied medicine, but then completed an artistic training in a sculpture workshop in northern Italy . During a study trip to Paris he got to know works by Auguste Rodin , which impressed him very much. With the support of Adolf von Hildebrand , he embarked on the path to sculpture.

After he was represented for the first time in 1912 with drawings at the 25th exhibition of the “ Berlin Secession ”, his work took place through the collective exhibition at Caspari in Munich (1917), through the collective exhibition with Paul Cassirer in Berlin (1920) and through the exhibition in the Hans Goltz's gallery in Munich (1921) wide recognition. The Heinrich Thannhauser Gallery in Berlin organized the most comprehensive exhibition in 1928 . His artistic self-image was shaped by the ideas of the reform movement and the cultural awakening after the First World War . He was friends with Karl Liebknecht , Erich Mühsam and Ernst Toller , whom he also portrayed in busts. He also created numerous portrait busts of other contemporary personalities: Minna Cauer, Richard Dehmel, Albert Einstein, Lovis Corinth, Marie Götze, Willi Jaeckel, Max Liebermann, Werner Sombart, Ferdinand Tönnies, Andreas Weißgerber, Ludwig Wüllner. After receiving the Nobel Prize , he modeled a bust of Gerhart Hauptmann on behalf of Max Reinhardt for the foyer of the German Theater in Berlin (1913). In addition, he created figurative representations (inter alia. "Floating" 1919, "The Guardian" 1922, "The Lonely" 1923, "Adam", "Aufgang", "Moses"). He also made a death mask for the pianist Ferruccio Busoni and prints of his hands. One of the copies was given to his widow Gerda Sjöstrand, a second was part of the Hans Friedenthal collection and another was part of Walter Krieg's collection in Berlin.

Probably the most extensive work on the graphic and sculptural work was created in collaboration with the famous photographer, Albert Renger-Patzsch, when he was working in Berlin in 1923/24. It was published in 1927 by Julius Bard Verlag Berlin. A hand-bound preferred copy No. 37 from an edition of 50 is in the Albert Renger-Patzsch Archive - Ann and Jürgen Wilde, Zülpich. There are also some portraits that Renger-Patzsch took of the Kroner family back then. Some of his Impressionist works can now be seen in museums in Germany ( Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg, Nationalgalerie, German Historical Museum, Jewish Museum Berlin) and in Israel (Mishkan le Omanut Museum of art in Ein Harod). "The mourning" is one of the few surviving life-size sculptures that marks his grave in the Stahnsdorf south-west cemetery . The grave is in the Reformation block, field 9, garden area 81.

family

Kurt Kroner, like his father Traugott Kroner (1854–1899) from Glatz and his brother Theodor Kroner (born May 12, 1845 in Dyhernfurt / Silesia, † 1923 in Stuttgart), educator, journalist and rabbi, came from a Silesian rabbi family. Kurt Kroner's mother was Margarete Kroner, b. Heymann, from a family of merchants. Kurt Kroner converted to Christianity together with his wife in 1909. Later they committed themselves to a "religion of mankind" that transcended all denominational boundaries. His son Thomas Kroner (* 1909 in Munich; † 1992 in Beith Hashita / Israel) and his daughter Dodo Kroner (* 1912 in Berlin; † 2006 in Stuttgart), both also active as visual artists, were able to go abroad before the National Socialist persecution save. The same applies to his brother, the philosopher Richard Kroner (born March 8, 1884 in Breslau; † November 2, 1974 in Mammern / Canton Thurgau). His wife, the painter Ella Kroner geb. Behrendt (1885–1942) stayed in Berlin and was deported to Auschwitz in 1942.

literature

  • Hans Karlinger : About Kurt Kroner's sculpture . In: The art. Monthly magazine for fine and applied arts . tape 39 . F. Bruckmann, Munich 1919, p. 324–327 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Otto Grautoff : (Kurt) Kroner . With a preface by Gerhart Hauptmann . Julius Bard, Berlin 1927, OCLC 250976499 (127 images on 112 plates, 18 vignettes).
  • Kurt Kroner. In: Hanns Martin Elster (ed.): Die Horen, monthly books for art and poetry. Volume 5, 4th issue, Horen Verlag Berlin 1928/1929 (1 portrait and 12 illustrations, mostly based on photographs by Albert Renger-Patzsch).
  • Kurt Kroner On the exhibition in our Berlin house Bellevuestrasse December 13, 1928. Galerie Thannhauser, Berlin / Lucerne 1928, 24 pp.
  • Kroner, Kurt . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 21 : Knip – Kruger . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 576 .
  • German Biographical Encyclopedia. 2.A. Volume 6: Kraatz – Menges. Munich 2006, p. 85.
  • Alice Cazzola: “Not Expressionism”! The sculptor Kurt Kroner within the expressionist art scene in Berlin. In: Expressionism. Issue 8, 2018, pp. 13–21.

Web links

Commons : Kurt Kroner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The music . Volume 27, 1st half-year volume (1934–1935). Max Hesse, Berlin-Schöneberg 1935, p. 102 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  2. ^ Otto Grautoff : (Kurt) Kroner . With a preface by Gerhart Hauptmann . Julius Bard, Berlin 1927.
  3. ↑ Stolperstein Danckelmannstrasse 32.berlin.de, accessed on November 3, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Kroner, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1929
Place of death Munich