Otto Poertzel

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Otto Poertzel (born October 24, 1876 in Scheibe ; † January 16, 1963 in Coburg ; full name: Hermann Hugo Otto Poertzel ) was a German sculptor and modeller.

Life

Figure of a bathing woman on the gable of the Ernst-Alexandrinen-Volksbad in Coburg
figural relief on the bank fortification of the Itz near the Ketschenbrücke
Alexandrine fountain in Coburg

Otto Poertzel was the third child of G. Wilhelm Poertzel and his wife J. Emilie Candida Poertzel born. Pabst. He attended elementary school in Scheibe and later had private lessons with Cantor Sichert and Pastor Henkel. The local porcelain factory AW Fr. Kister took him on as an apprentice, initially for a year in the mold and model foundry and then for a year and a half in the studio for the production of new models, where he was trained as a porcelain modeler. His father was already a designer for porcelain sculptures there. From October 1, 1893, Otto Poertzel attended the Sonneberg industrial school in Sonneberg for three years . He studied with Reinhard Möller at the Technical Academy for Porcelain (one of the branches of the industrial school). In the subjects of drawing, modeling, shapes and anatomy he got the grade 1. This was followed by a short activity in the Atelier G. Stellmacher in Gotha , where he worked on drafts and designs of new models for various branches of industry.

From 1900 Poertzel worked as a freelance sculptor in Coburg. He received commissions for stone and bronze sculptures from state and municipal authorities and, for example, created the bust of the Alexandrine Fountain in 1907 . In 1908 he went to Munich , where he had his own studio and studied with Erwin Kurz (1857–1931) at the art academy . On June 23, 1909, he married Henny Breyding in Munich and in 1910 had a villa with a studio built on the property on Hügelstrasse 8 in Coburg.

Among other things, he was known for his statuettes made of bronze and ivory in the Art Deco style , with which he depicted dancers, circus artists, film stars and elegant young women in graceful postures. His figures were handcrafted and sold by Rosenthal & Maeder and later by Preiss & Kassler .

Otto Poertzel took part in numerous international art exhibitions with manufactured models, for example the 1904 World Exhibition in St. Louis and the Brussels International Art Exhibition (1910).

In the 1920s and 1930s Poertzel received numerous orders for portrait busts of various family members of the dynasty of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha . From 1931 to 1938 he worked for the Max Roesler Feinsteingutfabrik in Rodach .

Honors

On July 19, 1913 Otto Poertzel was awarded the title “Professor” by Duke Carl Eduard , and he was also the bearer of the Knight's Cross of the Ernestine House Order . He was a founding member of the Coburg Art Association and a member of the Reich Association of Fine Artists in Germany as well as for many years chairman of the industrial and journeyman examination committee and honorary chairman of the Association of Fine Artists.

Poertzel's work on the art market

Objects based on Poertzel's models can be found in stores all over the world today and some of them achieve high prices. On October 1, 2017, in the series Lieb & Teuer of the NDR, the art historian Stephan Schwarzl discussed a bronze sculpture of a dancer made by Poertzel in the 1920s.

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Otto Poertzel. Entry: May 21, 1908, subject: sculpture . In: Matrikelbuch 3 (1884-1920), Academy of Fine Arts Munich .
  2. ^ Renate Reuther: Villas in Coburg. Veste-Verlag Roßteuscher, Coburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-925431-31-9 , pp. 87-96.
  3. ^ Government Gazette for the Duchy of Coburg, July 19, 1913
  4. ^ Bronze sculpture of a dancer. In: ndr.de from June 30, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Poertzel, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Poertzel, Hermann Hugo Otto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH disc
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1963
Place of death Coburg