Norbert Pfretzschner

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Norbert Pfretzschner in his Berlin studio, 1905. Photo by Zander & Labisch .

Norbert Pfretzschner (born September 1, 1850 in Kufstein ; † December 28, 1927 in Lana a. D. Etsch ) was an Austrian sculptor and hunting writer from a Tyrolean family of artists .

Life

Pfretzschner grew up on his family's estate in Jenbach / Tyrol, where he had his first contact with art. His father, Dr. med. Norbert Pfretzschner senior , member of the Reichsrat, Land and Reichstag, was himself a man interested in art who was already involved in photography in the 1850s. He was likely to have received significant impulses from his grandfather Johann Baptist Pfretzschner (of whom there are excellent paintings in the Innsbruck Museum Ferdinandeum ) and from his uncle, the famous Munich photographer Franz Hanfstaengl .

He received his education at the high schools in Innsbruck and Brixen . From 1871 Pfretzschner studied economics in Leipzig, Freiburg im Breisgau and Innsbruck and was a member of the Corps Thuringia Leipzig , Suevia Freiburg and Rhaetia Innsbruck . In addition to his work as a hunting writer, Pfretzschner took on the position of forest and hunter master first with Duke Ernst II of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and then with Baron Nathaniel Meyer von Rothschild in Gut Schillersdorf , Upper Silesia. After an illness, he trained as a sculptor with Edmund Hellmer and Ludwig Manzel . From 1891 to 1913 he worked as a sculptor in Berlin . The sculptor Franz Tübbecke also worked for him here, for example on the monument to Elector Joachim Friedrich in Siegesallee , monument group 22 .

After the First World War, he with 64 years as a volunteer at the Tyrolean Imperial hunters - Regiment mitmachte to vorderster front, he settled in 1924 in Lana in Burggrafenamt down. There he was again active as a writer and finished the hunting novel Peter Rieser .

Pfretzschner passed on his creative talent to his son Ernst Pfretzschner , an architect in Tyrol and Argentina .

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Bismarck monument

Jung-Bismarck monument on the Rudelsburg (replica 2006)

One of his best-known works is the Jungbismarck monument, unveiled in 1896 on the Rudelsburg near Bad Kösen , which Otto von Bismarck showed in an almost lolling pose with his dog Ariel as a young student of the Corps Hannovera in Göttingen and which was lost in 1951/52. A replica of this unique Bismarck depiction was set up again on April 1, 2006 at the Rudelsburg. The memorial was highly controversial in Germany when it was first unveiled, but had been personally authorized in this form by Bismarck. The Innsbrucker Nachrichten reported in its edition of August 12, 1895:

“The celebration of Prince Bismarck's 80th birthday brought a Tyrolean artist a very honorable commission. Our compatriot Norbert Pfretzschner, who lives in Charlottenburg, was invited to create a design for a Bismarck monument to be erected on the romantic Rudelsburg an der Saale. Pfretzschner completed the conception in a marvelous short time and his clay sketch was so captivating that the artist was immediately assured that the monument would be executed. Bismarck portrays the same thing as a brisk brother studio, sitting in full wank, his right leg boldly crossed, the lowered bat in his right. The prince provided pictures from the time of his stay in Göttingen to model the youthful head. Student emblems, flags and wreaths decorate the base, which is flanked by corner pillars. The original model of the beautiful statue, over 1½ meters high - a characteristic embodiment of the flourishing student life - adorned one of the rooms in Friedrichsruh on April 1st . If, by the way, there is no doubt that the execution of the monument meets with general applause to the same extent as the sketch modeled with boyish ingenious dashing, then Pfretzschner, who is known to have turned to plastic art only a few years ago, is a made man there will be no lack of commissions and honors. "

Apparently they were very satisfied with the execution of the memorial, despite the reservations initially expressed, because another article in Innsbrucker Nachrichten published in 1897 states:

“The master of the monument erected by the corps students for Prince Bismarck, the sculptor Norbert Pfretzschner, received extraordinary recognition in the following letter from the Committee: Dear Captain! The full committee of the Association of Old Corps Students has in its ordinary from 13. d. M. decided unanimously, in grateful recognition of the beautiful work that came out of your hand, which adorns Rudelsburger Höhe, after the fee already paid in accordance with the contract, to give you a voluntary grant of 2000 marks, or two thousand marks. It has become my honorable task to inform you of this decision and to hand over the sum mentioned. May this well-deserved recognition given to you, dear master, be proof of how much the work of art you have created corresponds to the thoughts that we want to see embodied with it, may it be a drive to you, courageously and firmly To continue on the path you have trodden and to achieve those lofty goals of your art in a relentless struggle to which your natural talent indicates. Signed Hans Ritter v. Hops . "

More plastic works

Monument group 22 of Siegesallee, 1900
Rudolstadt, RSC memorial

Publications

  • About Max Klinger , in: Marginal glosses on German literary history. Edited by Anton Breitner, Volume 11, Vienna 1905.
  • Peter Rieser, the game master from Hinterriß. Roman (= Green Books. No. 19). 3rd edition 1925.
  • Publication of numerous smaller sketches and stories in hunting magazines of his time.

literature

Web links

Commons : Norbert Pfretzschner  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Unusual Hero of 1809 , accessed January 8, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Pfretzschner, Norbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian sculptor and hunting writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Kufstein
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1927
Place of death Lana ad Etsch