Otto Kallenbach

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Otto Kallenbach (born December 3, 1911 in Trippstadt ; † March 23, 1992 ibid) was a German sculptor and medalist .

biography

From 1918 to 1925 Kallenbach attended elementary school in Trippstadt. On May 1, 1925 he was accepted into the stone painting department of the master school for craftsmen in Kaiserslautern . After four years he took the assistant test and worked in a company in Landau (Palatinate) until he had earned enough money to apply to the Munich School of Applied Arts . In 1934 he passed the entrance examination. His most important teacher there was Josef Henselmann . The city of Munich gave him a travel grant in 1939 that allowed him to go on study trips through Germany.

In 1940 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht , where he served with brief interruptions until the end of the Second World War. Then he continued his studies in Munich. In 1950 he became an assistant at Henselmann, then a senior teacher and senior teacher in the university service. In 1972 he was made an honorary professor. From 1975 until the end of his life he lived as a freelance sculptor in Trippstadt.

Otto Kallenbach was born with Renate. Kettenring, a forester's daughter from Reipoltskirchen, married. They had two children, Pauline and Luise.

Awards (selection)

  • 1952 1st prize of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts for "medal art"
  • 1954 Palatinate Prize for plastic
  • 1956 1st Prize from the National Olympic Committee for Sports Plastics (Weightlifting, Melbourne)
  • 1960 1st prize from the National Olympic Committee for Small Sculpture
  • 1960 2nd prize of the NOK for large-scale plastic (cyclist, Mexico City)
  • 1972 1st prize of the NOK for sports plastic (Ringer, Munich)

Works (selection)

Sculpture from 1954 on the Munich fish fountain

Medal art (selection)

  • Pallas Athene (1952), Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts
  • Franz von Sickingen Medal (1963), Kaiserslautern district administration
  • Mardi Gras Medal of the Munich Academy (1965), with Prof. Henselmann as a carnival jester
  • Picasso Medal (1971), used as a sponsorship award from the “Palatinate Friends of Art Association”
  • Richard Wagner (1980)

Sculptures (selection)

  • Archangel Michael (1949) Mommingen
  • The man with the dragon, (1959), Munich, Ambergerstrasse / corner Denninger Strasse, stone and bronze
  • Relief (1961), Ludwigshafen indoor riding arena
  • Horse (1966), Munich
  • Moses in front of the burning bush, (1978), Evang. Church in Trippstadt
  • Madonna (1995) Marienheim Speyer

literature

  • Otto Kallenbach, sculptures and drawings . Kaiserslautern, Pfalzgalerie 1975
  • The medals of Otto Kallenbach . Publishing house Pfälzer Kunst, Landau 1981
  • Hans Kiessling, meeting with sculptors. Munich art scene 1955-1982 . EOS Verlag Archabbey St. Ottilien, 1982
  • Ferdinand Dahl: Otto Kallenbach ( Memento from April 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), in ders .: Catalog for the exhibition Kunstmedals - Medaillenkunst , part 3 (= Der Steckenreiter. Ancillary hours dedicated to the pleasure of coins. A coin post from the Numismatic Society Bonner Münzfreunde e.V . , Episode 93). Numismatic Society of Bonner Münzfreunde, Bonn 2014, p. 7f. (with pictures); as a PDF document

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sculpture "Kite Handlebar". In: NordOstKultur Munich. Association for District Culture in the Munich Northeast eV, accessed on September 6, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Kallenbach, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Trippstadt
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 1992
Place of death Trippstadt