Kurt Zimmermann (sculptor)

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Kurt Zimmermann (born May 24, 1910 in Düsseldorf ; † 1961 there ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Bauer , sculpture by the group "The Estates"

Initially, Kurt Zimmermann was a draftsman in a technical office and studied at a mechanical engineering school. From 1919 to 1932 Zimmermann studied at the Art Academy with Hubert Netzer and was most recently a master student in Alexander Zschokke's sculpture class . Zimmermann was a member of the Rhenish Secession . From 1932 to 1933 he studied in Berlin. There his work was initially exhibited at Flechtheim and Cassirer , followed by exhibitions, officially approved by the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts from 1934 , in the Buchholz art dealer , which was initially headed by Curt Valentin . In 1936 Zimmermann received a state scholarship from the Kassel Art Academy for a master's studio and moved into the artist's house in Düsseldorf-Golzheim at Franz-Jürgens-Straße 7. In the same year, just under eight months before the opening of the 1937 Reich Exhibition , he became one of a series of Düsseldorf artists commissioned with the production of the "Ständischen". Among the ten sculptors were himself, Hans Breker, Alexander Zschokke, Joseph Daniel Sommer, Erich Kuhn, Kurt Schwippert, Fritz Peretti, Zoltan Székessy and his friend Robert Ittermann . In 1937 Kurt Zimmermann received the Cornelius Prize from the city of Düsseldorf for the bronze sculpture Eva , which he shared with the sculptor Ittermann. Between 1936 and 1938 he made several study trips to Paris. From 1940 to 1943 military service in France and Russia. After the Second World War , after he had turned down an appointment at the Dresden Art Academy in 1945 , Zimmermann became one of the most sought-after sculptors in the Rhineland. He received numerous orders for the furnishing of churches and created works for public facilities and architectural sculptures on numerous buildings. One of his students from 1946 to 1949 was the sculptor Gretel Gemmert (1923-2004), who in 1968 married the artist Karl Heinz Krauskopf .

Kurt Zimmermann's house at Franz-Jürgens-Strasse 7, Golzheim artists' settlement

Kurt Zimmermann, married to Maria, a née Hoppenheit, died in 1961 in his studio house in the Golzheim artists' settlement , which was built by the architect Arnold Boms as part of the Schaffendes Volk exhibition and where he has lived since then. Maria Zimmermann was able to live in the little house until her death in 1971, although the sculptor and painter Karl-Heinz Klein (born June 12, 1926 in Wuppertal-Elberfeld) was assigned it by the city of Düsseldorf in 1969.

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In the 1930s, the sculptor Kurt Zimmermann was one of the artists in whose works the National Socialists and their ideology were well received. After 1945, the sculptor also turned to Christian themes, and the figurative representations became more abstract and the heroic character softened. "His robe sculptures are committed to the formal language of Greek as well as Gothic sculpture, they concentrate in the reduction on essential characteristics of the motifs." ( Michael Voets :)

Works (selection)

literature

A. Hentzen 1934 ?? KfA 1939/40: 236 ?? DN 7 March 1942 RP 7.9.1961 ?? DN 9/8/1961 Das Tor Nov. 1961, Das Tor 1970: 218ff. Q: A. Hentzen 1934; Bushart 1984

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anja Siedemann: The "degenerate" modernism and its American market: Karl Buchholz and Curt Valentin as dealers of ostracized art , in exhibitions by Karl Buchholz in Berlin (1934-1946), p. 258 ff, De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston, 2013 , ISBN 978-3-05-009507-3
  2. ^ Ernst-Schwarz-Strasse 7U, Zimmermann, Kurt, Sculptor , in the address book of the city of Düsseldorf, 1938, p. 791
  3. ^ List of houses, builders and architects: Lot 10; Artist house; Street 2 (names: in 1936 Bodenstrasse, 1937–1945 Ernst-Schwarz-Strasse, today Franz-Jürgens-Strasse); House number 7; Client Kurt Zimmermann, sculptor; Architect Arnold Boms , from schaffendesvolk1937.de, accessed on August 7, 2017
  4. ↑ Sculptor Karl-Heinz Klein
  5. ↑ Corinna Gertz (Ed.): 80 Years of the Golzheim Artists' Colony , State Capital Düsseldorf, 2017, p. 93
  6. ↑ in object description St. Raphael by Kurt Zimmermann , on emuseum.duesseldorf.de
  7. ↑ Photo: The sculptor Kurt Zimmermann in his studio on the right the sculpture Bauer for the exhibition Schaffendes Volk. , in Meine Heimat 4. 1937.84
  8. ^ Photograph by unknown photographer: Berlin, The sculptor Kurt Zimmermann at work, "The Soldier's Face"
  9. ↑ The protective coat Madonna is displayed on the right-hand side of the market square, near the chicken market. The bronze sculpture is the work of the well-known Düsseldorf sculptor Kurt Zimmermann. Siegburg citizens donated the figure. on stadtarchiv-siegburg.de
  10. ↑ St. Rafael, identified in the illustration as an archangel by the stylized wings, is attributed healing powers. The sculpture was erected in 1953 for the inauguration of the new building and to be renamed after its namesake. , on duesseldorf.de
  11. ↑ Installation of the Heine bust by the sculptor Kurt Zimmermann in the Tußmannbau on the market square, in the administrative report of the state capital Düsseldorf, from April 1, 1959 to December 31, 1960, p. 275
personal data
SURNAME Carpenter, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH 1961
Place of death Dusseldorf