Lothar Dietz

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Lothar Dietz (born April 14, 1896 in Jesserndorf bei Ebern ; † August 11, 1976 in Munich ) was a German sculptor .

Life

The sculptor Lothar Dietz was born in Jesserndorf in Lower Franconia as the son of a teacher. From 1910 he studied in Munich, initially at the trade school under Karl Killer . During this time he created his first public work with the portal decoration at the municipal school in Deroystraße. Following the trade school, he continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Professors Erwin Kurz , Hermann Hahn , Adolf Hengeler and Angelo Jank .

He worked as a freelance artist in Munich and at times led his own sculpture school. One of his numerous students is the sculptor Claus Nageler . Lothar Dietz exhibited regularly as a member of the Munich Artists' Cooperative in the Great German Art Exhibition . Closely connected to the Schwabing art scene, he belonged to the “Seerose” group of artists.

Works

Boy with swan
Snake fountain
Artur-Kutscher-Brunnen

Lothar Dietz created works all over Germany. Above all, he worked for a long time for WWK-Versicherungen, whose office building he designed with his works - sculptures, fountains and mosaics. There were also sculptures for residential complexes built by the insurance company, so u. a. in Germering near Munich.

Other works in public space, mostly created through competition commissions, include a .:

  • 1953: Boy with a swan fountain in Tucherpark Munich
  • 1958: Äskulapschlange - so-called snake fountain - in front of the veterinary faculty of the University of Munich
  • 1958: the memorial for the “White Rose” in the atrium of the University of Munich
  • 1968: the Artur-Kutscher-Brunnen in Munich-Schwabing
  • 1969: the Rubens Fountain in Siegen, Sandstrasse, on behalf of WWK insurance

His special artistic work was portrait art and small sculptures. That is why artists like to call him the artist of the small form, which he showed in his last work, on his 80th birthday and shortly before his death in 1976 in the great art exhibition: a tree trunk worked out as a tree of life, in the niche of which is a selection of the sculptures behind a glass jacket. Lothar Dietz followed the artistic model of the sculptor Fritz Behn in his numerous animal sculptures . As a young sculptor, he spent many hours studying animals in the Hellabrunn Zoo in Munich. The bronze sculpture of an elephant is an example of his animal sculptures.

Awards

Lothar Dietz received the Schwabing Art Prize of the City of Munich in 1963 and the Water Lily Prize in 1970 .

family

Lothar Dietz is the older brother of the sculptor Elmar Dietz . The current Bavarian Minister for Science and Art, Wolfgang Heubisch , is his nephew.

literature

  • Karl Ude, sculptures Lothar Dietz, Munich 1966
  • Christiane Benzenberg: Monuments for the resistance group "White Rose" in Munich and Hamburg in Monumenta Judaica 1964
  • "Steinmetz und Bildhauer" magazine, issue 11/1973 - Portrait: The sculptor Lothar Dietz, page 633 ff.
  • Otto Josef Bistrizki "Fountain in Munich" Callway-Verlag Munich 1974
  • Thomas Raff “Pictures in the main building of the LMU”, contribution from “Der Bilderalltag” by Helge Gerndt and Michaela Haibl, Munich Contributions to Folklore - Waxmann-Verlag - Munich 2005, pages 333 ff.
  • Sailer, Anton: "Lothar Dietz and his tree of life" in "Art and the beautiful home", No. 89, 1977 - pages 672-673
  • Kulturreferat der LH Munich, 2003, exhibition catalog "55 Years of the Water Lily Circle"

Individual evidence

  • Karl Ude; Obituary for Lothar Dietz, Süddeutsche-Zeitung, Munich, August 14, 1976
  • Wolfgang Christlieb: Obituary for Lothar Dietz, Abendzeitung Munich, August 13, 1976

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personal data
SURNAME Dietz, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Jesserndorf near Ebern
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1976
Place of death Munich