Oskar Witt

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Oskar Wilhelm Witt (* 9. April 1892 in Hamburg , † 1957 ibid ) was a German sculptor , ceramicist and painter .

Life

Oskar Witt attended the "predecessor school" of the Hamburg School of Applied Arts . From 1907 to 1911 he did an apprenticeship as a sculptor and stonemason , then an apprenticeship as a wood sculptor . He then studied from 1920 to 1925 at the State Art School in Hamburg with Johann Michael Bossard , F. Wehland and Julius Wohlers . In 1933 Witt joined the Hamburg Artists' Association , which was founded in 1920 . In 1944 he was a teacher for plastic at the Hanseatic University of Fine Arts in Hamburg .

Works

Monument 1914–1918, Sülldorf

Oskar Witt was mainly active as a sculptor and ceramist.

He created the 1925 design for the memorial for the fallen soldiers of the First World War in front of St. Michael's Church in Sülldorfer Kirchenweg 189, Hamburg-Sülldorf .

In 1934, Witt and the architect Rudolf Matzen submitted a competition design for the planned “76 Monument on Dammtordamm”, which was honored with fourth prize.

Witt took part in group exhibitions in the Hamburger Kunsthalle , for example in 1937 on the subject of "Applied Art since 1933".

As part of a project for art in public space , he produced in 1939 in Hamburg-Heimfeld in the street area Konsul – Francke-Straße / Hangstraße z. B. ceramic reliefs, honor plaques and fountains.

Witt designed family graves at Hamburg's Ohlsdorf cemetery , for example:

  • 1926 Meyer family (ceramics)
  • 1928 Coen family (marble) - successors: Willich family
  • 1933 Wolkau / Teubert family (marble), with a relief floor slab from 1918
  • 1935 Rieckmann family (marble)
  • 1940 Witt family (Muschelkalk).
  • 1944 mother Veldkamp (shell limestone)

  • Meyer tomb

  • Coen tomb
    (now Willich )

  • Wolkau / Teubert tomb

  • Saved stones at the cemetery museum

  • Witt tomb

  • Veldkamp tomb
    in the women's garden

literature

  • The new Rump - Lexicon of Hamburg's Visual Artists - Second Edition 2013, pp. 513, 514.
  • Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker : General Lexicon of Visual Artists from Antiquity to the Present, Vols. 1 - 37 , Leipzig 1907–1950.
  • Georg Syamken: The third dimension - sculptures. Constructions. Objects. Inventory catalog of the sculpture department of the Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, 1988.
  • Heinz Zabel: Handwritten artist lexicon for work in Hamburg's public space .

Web links

Commons : Oskar Witt (Sculptor)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ full name at Denk mal!
  2. ↑ War memorial in front of St. Michael, Sülldorfer Landstrasse near Denk mal!
  3. ^ Placement of the Dammtor memorial on Google Books
  4. ↑ Inscriptions and images Grab Witt (2016) at genealogy.net and Barbara Leisner, Heiko KL Schulze, Ellen Thormann: Der Hamburger Hauptfriedhof Ohlsdorf. History and tombs, Hans Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-7672-1060-6 , page 170, cat. 1211
  5. ↑ Details of the stone group at Förderkreis Ohlsdorfer Friedhof

Remarks

  1. ^ Oskar Witt's name does not appear on the Ohlsdorf Witt tomb; since, according to the Hamburg address book, he last lived in Bergedorf (1957), it can be assumed that he was buried in one of the cemeteries there
personal data
SURNAME Witt, Oskar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Witt, Oskar Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor, ceramist and painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 1957
Place of death Hamburg