Ludolf Albrecht

Sculpture The Dancer in Jenisch Park

Ludolf Albrecht (born January 16, 1884 in Haigerloch ; † January 22, 1955 in Schenefeld ) was a German sculptor and goldsmith and silversmith.

Life

Ludolf Albrecht lived in Hamburg from 1893. He did an apprenticeship in goldsmithing with Alexander Schönauer. He then went to Munich to study sculpture at the arts and crafts school. His teachers were Rupert von Miller and Heinrich Waderé . From 1908 on he took lessons at the Hamburg School of Applied Arts with Richard Luksch . He taught there himself from 1908 to 1910. Alfred Lichtwark , the director of the Hamburger Kunsthalle , and Hamburg's chief building director Fritz Schumacher supported him in his plan to set up as a freelance artist. His public commissions at the time included the sculpture The Dancer , which could be seen in Hamburg's Jenischpark . In 1914 he became a member of the Hamburg Artists' Association from 1832 . From 1923 on he lived and worked in Schenefeld. He married and had a daughter.

Sculpture by Ludolf Albrecht in Hamburg-Dulsberg

In 1919 Ludolf Albrecht was accepted into the artists 'association Hamburgische Sezession , resigned in 1920 to change to the Hamburg artists' body , where he was elected chairman in 1930. During the Great Depression , he was committed to supporting artist colleagues in need.

With the emergence of National Socialist ideas, he became active in the Kampfbund für deutsche Kultur . In 1933 he participated in the organization of the DC circuit German artists' associations with the exclusion of Jewish and avant-garde members. He was one of the informers of the art historian and monument conservator Hermann Röver , who was then dismissed from office.

Albrecht's own works of this time corresponded to the National Socialist understanding of art: bronze figures in sporty movement in a naturalistic style, dancing or ball-playing nude figures, mother-child groups and monumental soldiers and peasants, memorials to the fallen. He created national emblems and imperial eagles, made ceramics, copper work, small sculptures, worked with silver, sandstone, granite and marble.

After the war he joined the professional association of visual artists . A professional court of honor , which dealt with his activities during the time of National Socialism, excluded him from the professional association in 1951. Albrecht then founded the artists' guild of the Pinneberg district and took over the chairmanship until 1955, the year of his death.

literature

• Gustav Pauli , Peter Hirschfeld, Karl Wilhelm Tesdorpf, Hans Leip : Hundred years of Hamburg art. 1832-1932. Verlag Br. Sachse, Hamburg 1932, p. 60 ( digitized version ).
• Kay Rump family, Maike Bruhns: The new Rump. Lexicon of the visual artists of Hamburg , 2nd edition. Wachholtz-Verlag, Neumünster / Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-529-02792-5 , p. 11.

Individual evidence

1. ^ The dancer in Jenischpark (Elbe-Wochenblatt online) ( Memento from April 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

Commons : Ludolf Albrecht  - Collection of images, videos and audio files