Otto Hitzberger

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Otto Hitzberger (born October 2, 1878 in Munich , † July 22, 1964 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ) was a German sculptor.

Life

Otto Kaspar Hitzberger was born as the son of the photographer Josef Hitzberger and his wife Anna. In 1883 the family moved to Partenkirchen. From 1891 to 1895 he learned the craft of wood and stone carving in the wood carving school in Partenkirchen. In Munich he worked for Josef Flossmann . Then Hitzberger worked under Georg von Hauberrisser at the Munich New Town Hall as a stonemason.

He perfected his skills as a wood sculptor with an old church sculptor in the small town of Süßen in Württemberg . On the roll he crossed Germany in all directions, then Switzerland, Italy and Austria. In all these countries he worked in many studios and workshops. In 1910 he was briefly in Partenkirchen again, after which he lived for three years in southern Africa in order to accept and carry out orders, including altar figures for burial churches, cupboards and door panels for the farms.

In 1914 he returned to Germany, namely to Berlin, where he was director of Josef Wackerle's workshop until 1917 . In 1917 Bruno Paul appointed him head of the wood and stone carving class at the teaching institutions of the Berlin Museum of Applied Arts . In 1924, when the higher art schools were merged, Hitzberger moved to Charlottenburg as head of a training workshop for wood and stone carving. He held this office until 1943.

His work consisted of working with well-known architects in the design of facades and interiors, plastic decorations for interior furnishings, reliefs and full sculptures. During the First World War he was commissioned to copy the figures of the Trier Liebfrauenkirche in order to protect the originals from war damage. He also took on the difficult technical part of the execution of a huge figure of Christ by Ludwig Gies , which, after being partially destroyed by Lübeck citizens, was on display again in the cathedral building at the Munich Trade Show . The figure was exhibited as "degenerate" during National Socialism and was probably destroyed afterwards.

In 1938 three of Hitzberger's works were shown in the Degenerate Art exhibition .

After the war he developed an old work in Garmisch-Partenkirchen that is characterized by unusual vitality and superior wisdom and religiosity.

Otto Hitzberger was married twice. Her marriage to Viktoria Gaugler (* 1876, † 1942) in Munich in 1902 resulted in three children: Anna (* 1903), Otto Georg (* 1904, sculptor) and Friederike (1906). In 1918 this marriage was divorced. With Martha, divorced Bernhard, née Maaß, he got his second marriage in Berlin in 1922, which remained childless.

Honors

On his 75th birthday in 1953, Bussardstrasse in Garmisch-Partenkirchen was renamed Prof.-Hitzberger-Strasse . On September 23, 1953 he received the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class. Further honors took place in 1958 for the 80th birthday (award of the golden badge of honor of the Garmisch-Partenkirchen market) and 1963 for the 85th birthday (award of the honorary citizenship of the Garmisch-Partenkirchen market). In 1964 he was awarded the Benemerenti Papal Merit Medal.

Works

  • 1918: Virtues , four library figures, oak
  • 1919: Shepherd , cupboard filling, pear tree
  • 1920: Seated mother with child , oak
  • 1921: Striding Madonna , pine wood
  • 1921: Tabernacle door , Dominikusstift Berlin-Hermsdorf, embossed brass, gold-plated, with rock crystals
  • around 1922: carved panels , oak wood
  • 1922: Morning , stucco relief for a dining room
  • 1922: evening , stucco relief for a dining room
  • 1922: Pietà , linden wood
St. Georg as a dragon slayer (1934), St. Antonius Church Potsdam-Babelsberg
  • 1923: Conception , bronze
  • 1923: Hitzberger grave cross , Partenkirchen, pine wood
  • 1923: Gravestone General Field Marshal von Eichhorn , shell limestone, Invalidenfriedhof Berlin
  • 1923: poverty , bronze
  • 1923: Christmas crib , oak wood
  • 1923: Allegory , stucco relief for a fireplace
  • 1924: Christ and Mary Magdalene , oak
  • 1924: Sale of the Joseph , relief, walnut wood
  • around 1926: The Wanderer , oak
  • before 1927: mourners , shell limestone, cemetery and crematorium Ruhleben
  • before 1929: The Passion of Christ , 14 pictures carved in wood
  • 1933: Christ , oak wood, Salvator Church Berlin-Schmargendorf
  • 1934: Sarcophagi for President Paul von Hindenburg and his wife
  • 1934: Marienfigur , St. Antonius , St. Georg as a dragon slayer and baptismal font, artificial stone, St. Antonius Church Potsdam-Babelsberg
  • after 1945: war memorial in Wallgau
  • before 1948: stargazers , ceramics
  • before 1948: flute player , ceramics
  • before 1948: Christ and the disciples , relief, white poplar
  • before 1948: blind people , relief, oak
  • 1948: The philosopher , Lindenholz
  • 1949: The Last Supper , relief for the former house chapel of the accident clinic in Murnau, Lindenholz
  • 1951: The good shepherd , linden wood
  • 1955: The four seasons , relief, limewood
  • 1961: Noah's Ark , relief, pear tree
  • 1964: Memorial for the fallen pupils and teachers of the Garmisch-Partenkirchen high school, relief, linden wood

literature

  • Fritz Hellwag: On the work of Otto Hitzberger . In: German Art and Decoration , 49th year 1921–1922, pp. 326–332
  • Josef Maria Frank: The sculptor Otto Hitzberger . In: German Art and Decoration , 53rd year 1923–1924, pp. 85–87
  • Oscar Gehrig: Otto Hitzberger . Verlag Deutsch-Literarisches Institut, Berlin 1925
  • Wolfgang Schächen among others: Siemens buildings in Siemensstadt - housing estates . Konopka, Berlin 1995
  • Karl Heinz Klatte, Karl Georg Schnitzenberger: Professor Otto Hitzberger , private publisher Garmisch-Partenkirchen, 2003

Web links

Commons : Otto Hitzberger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Office of the Federal President
  2. ^ Illustration in German Art and Decoration 49.1921-1922, p. 328 .
  3. ^ Illustration in German Art and Decoration 53.1923–1924, p. 85 .
  4. ^ Illustration in German Art and Decoration 51.1922–1923, p. 47 .
  5. ^ Illustration in German Art and Decoration 51.1922–1923, p. 50 .
  6. ^ Illustration in German Art and Decoration 51.1922–1923, p. 46 .
  7. ^ Illustration in German Art and Decoration 53.1923–1924, p. 88 .
  8. ↑ Illustration in German Art and Decoration 53.1923-1924, p. 89 .
  9. ^ Illustration in German Art and Decoration 53.1923–1924, p. 84 .
  10. ^ Illustration in German Art and Decoration 59.1926–1927, p. 366 .
  11. ↑ Figure ( Memento of the original from March 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bildhauerei-in-berlin.de
  12. ↑ Illustration in German Art and Decoration 63.1928–1929, p. 370 .
  13. ↑ No. 289 in the catalog of the spring exhibition of the Prussian Academy of the Arts in Berlin 1929, there noted as owner: Catholic Church in Wannsee and pictured: Descent from the Cross
  14. ↑ Figure .
personal data
SURNAME Hitzberger, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1964
Place of death Garmisch-Partenkirchen