Otto Richter (sculptor)

Emil Otto Richter (born March 18, 1867 in Löbnitz in the Delitzsch district ; † 1941 or 1943 in Braunschweig ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Richter initially worked as an ivory carver. He became a student of the manufactory in Charlottenburg and attended the teaching establishment of the Berlin Museum of Applied Arts , the Royal Art School in Berlin and the Berlin Art Academy . He worked and modeler for the Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin . He made trips to Belgium, Denmark, France, Italy, North Africa, Scotland, Spain and Russia. In 1899 he became a teacher and later a professor at the School of Applied Arts in Berlin. He ran a sculptor's workshop in Berlin, as did the stonemason Carl Schilling (1876–1939), who worked with him more often, in what would later become the Berlin district of Tempelhof .

In 1901 he won first prize in the competition for the Kaiser Friedrich Memorial in Charlottenburg.

Museums and exhibitions (selection)

• 1898: Great Berlin art exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts ( St. Georg , model for a copper fireplace insert)
• 1903: Munich Annual Exhibition in the Royal Glass Palace (marble group Die Qual )
• 1906: 33rd annual exhibition of the Society of Fine Artists in the Künstlerhaus Vienna (bronze relief Die Arbeit , marble group Die Qual )
• 1907: International art and large horticultural exhibition in Mannheim (fountain model for the department store of the city of Mannheim)
• 1909: Bronze statue The winner. Present from the artist to the Mannheim City Art Collection

Works (selection)

Sculpture "The German Guide Dog" in the Berlin Zoological Garden

Panel "The Grateful Blind People of Berlin"

• Architectural sculptures on the Reichstag building, on the Pomeranian Bank and on the real estate and transport bank in Berlin
• around 1900: Models for the sculptures on the business building for the civil departments of the Berlin I Regional Court and the Berlin I District Court in Berlin-Mitte
• around 1903: Eagle with a snake on the government building in Frankfurt an der Oder
• around 1904: Models for the plastic jewelry of the Grunewald Church in Berlin-Grunewald including a figure of Christ
• around 1906: Figures on the extension of the Moabit Criminal Court in Berlin
• around 1910: Models for the plastic jewelry of the Paul-Gerhardt-Church in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg
• around 1915/1919: Memorial to the fallen German soldiers in the southern cemetery in Lille
• around 1924: Building decorations for the office building of the Reichsbahndirektion Opole
• 1928: Guide dog memorial in the Berlin Zoological Garden on Hardenbergplatz , Berlin-Tiergarten
• 1933: Life-size bronze sculpture of two horses, modeled after cold-blooded horses from the Schultheiss brewery , originally in the courtyard of the Red City Hall ; it was intended for Treptower Park in the planning phase . On the initiative of the Mayor of Berlin Julius Lippert , it was set up in the northern part of the Spandauer Südpark . It was dismantled during the Second World War as part of the non-ferrous metal collections in 1942.
• Models for the sculptures at the Schöneberg District Court , the District Court of Dortmund , at the district court of Hanover , at the Amtsgericht Duisburg and at the district court in Essen
• Adler on the Bismarck Bridge in Berlin-Charlottenburg
• Eagle for the Boedecker monument in the Reich Insurance Office in Berlin
• Two portal figures for the building of the old arts and crafts museum in Berlin
• Fountain in the New Town Hall in Mannheim
• Figures on the building of the Prussian Ministry of Culture in Berlin
• Two reliefs for the Magdeburg Life Insurance building in Magdeburg
• Bronze equestrian figure of Heinrich I in the Nordhausen Museum
• War memorials in Brück

literature

• Maximilian Rapsilber: The sculptor Otto Richter - Berlin. In: German art and decoration, illustrated monthly books for modern painting, sculpture, architecture, home art and artistic women’s work. 7th year 1903/1904, 13th half volume (October 1903 to March 1904), p. 303. ( uni-heidelberg.de ).
• Friedrich Jansa: German visual artists in words and pictures. Jansa, Leipzig 1912, pp. 480-482.
• Judge, Otto . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 28 : Ramsden-Rosa . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1934, p. 300 .

Web links

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

• RKD artists

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Volker Lessing: Hanover District Court. A reading book with pictures. Tertulla-Verlag, Soest 2014, ISBN 978-3-9815602-4-4 , pp. 184-193. (Chapter The construction phase since May 1908 )
2. ↑ Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library
3. ^ Hermann Alexander Müller, Hans Wolfgang Singer: Richter, Emil Otto . In: General Artist Lexicon . Literary Institute, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1921, p. 233 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
4. ^ Illustrated catalog . Rud. Schuster, Berlin 1893, p. 99 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
5. ^ Official catalog of the Munich annual exhibition in the Kgl. Glass palace . Verlag der Münchener Künstlergenossenschaft, Munich 1903, p. 160 , Figure p. 125 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive , Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
6. ^ Catalog of the 33rd annual exhibition in Vienna . Cooperative of Visual Artists Vienna, Vienna 1906, p. 33 and 45 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
7. ^ Anniversary exhibition Mannheim 1907 - International art and large horticultural exhibition, from May 1st to October 20th . Mannheim 1907, p. 41 and 104 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
8. ↑ Short list of the paintings and sculptures in the municipal art collection . Self-published, Mannheim 1909 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
9. ^ Günther Jahn: The buildings and art monuments of Berlin. City and district of Spandau . Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1971, p. 356.
10. ^ Rainer Fliegner: Spandau. History and stories. (= Heimat-Archiv .) Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2007, ISBN 978-3-86680-122-6 , p. 94. ( limited preview on Google Books)