Otto Closer

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Fountain figure in the garden courtyard of the Mannheim City Retirement Home (before 1928)

Otto Schliessler (born October 18, 1885 in Forbach , † January 4, 1964 in Baden-Baden ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Otto Schliessler was born the son of a building contractor. From 1902 to 1903 he attended the Karlsruhe School of Applied Arts, his teachers in modeling and drawing were the ceramicist Karl Kornhaas and the painter Karl Eyth.

After he necessarily provided by the accidental death of his father to be, had collected craftsmanship experience in professional services, in Bruchsal, Munich and Dresden in the construction, he moved from 1905 to 1914, the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe as a master student of Hermann Volz , was also from 1907 to 1914 he was a specialist teacher at the arts and crafts school.

In 1913 the first works (large sculptures, nudes and busts) were created, which were also shown in exhibitions in southern Germany. Study trips took him to Florence and Rome. Between 1909 and 1933 he stayed in Schwetzingen in a side building of the Schwetzingen Castle, where he had set up a workshop. In 1922 he received the Ernst Ludwig Prize of the Association of Friends of Art in the countries on the Rhine. He was also awarded the gold medal in the German Art Show in Düsseldorf in 1928, and in 1929 he was awarded first prize for a slender female figure in the Baden-Baden art gallery.

Two applications to the Badische Landeskunstschule were unsuccessful: in 1923 as successor to Wilhelm Gerstel and in 1927 as successor to Kurt Edzard . From 1933 to 1949 he was a professor of sculpture at the Academy in Karlsruhe. During this time he also received state commissions for portrait busts ( Adolf Hitler , Otto Wacker , Johannes Hoops , Karl Roos ) and architecture-related works.

After the Karlsruhe workshop and apartment had been completely destroyed, in 1949 Schliessler retired as a freelance artist to his modest country house near Kohlhof .

Otto Schliessler was married to Gertrud Körner since 1920. The youngest of the four sons was mountaineer and filmmaker Martin Schlössler.

Head of a woman at Otto-Beck-Strasse 40 residential building in Mannheim (1924)

Works

  • 1914: Portrait of Ferdinand Schmidt (1868–1941), trimmings manufacturer in Darmstadt, bronzetondo (private property)
  • 1914: Portrait of Elisabeth Schmidt born. Welsch (1880–1960), Darmstadt, bronzetondo (private collection)
  • 1914: Lotti [Charlotte Schmidt, married. Aufleger 1911–1996], Darmstadt, marble bust (private property)
  • 1924: Portrait of the writer Helene Voigt-Diederichs , Kunststein
  • 1924: Head of a woman at the house at Otto-Beck-Straße 40 in 68165 Mannheim
  • around 1926: woman's head , terracotta
  • 1926: Black Forest woman
  • 1928: Portrait of a young person , stucco
  • 1928: Portrait of Professor Cohen , bronze
  • before 1930: Portrait of Dr. L. Frank , stucco
  • 1930: Portrait of Dr.-Ing. eh Heinrich Brenzinger , bronze
  • around 1930: friendship , stele at the Helene-Lange-Schule Mannheim
  • 1930: Striding girl , bronze
  • before 1932: Portrait of Prof. E. - Heidelberg
  • 1932: Standing girl , cast aluminum
  • 1932: Odenwald woman
  • 1932: Girl's torso , blue limestone
  • around 1933: Falcon hunt , relief at Berlin-Tempelhof Airport
  • 1933: Bust of privy councilor Johannes Hoops , plaster, Kurpfälzisches Museum Heidelberg
  • 1934: Portrait bust of Frau Gampp
  • 1936: Ursula , bronze, fountain figure for Schwetzingen, placed in the courtyard today
  • 1938: Workers , large relief made of cast iron (250 × 500 cm), gatehouse 2 of the Völklinger Hütte
  • 1939: male head , bronze
  • before 1942: bust of Karl Roos , marble
  • 1942: Prof. Dr. Eugen Fischer , bronze
  • 1942: Oskar Hagemann
  • before 1943: portrait of a girl
  • 1943: Portrait head Peter Haupt
  • 1944: Dr. hc Hermann Burte , terracotta
  • 1946: Portrait bust of Prof. Dr. Albert Fraenkel , bronze, installed on November 30, 1946 in the Speyererhof near Heidelberg
  • 1949: portrait of a woman ; terracotta
  • before 1951: bathers , plaster of paris
  • 1953: Portrait bust of Wolfgang Fortner , terracotta
  • 1955: Portrait of Professor Gustav Friedrich Hartlaub , bronze
  • 1956: Commemorative medal Dr. Eberhard Knittel
  • 1964: Portrait bust of Otto Löwenstein , bronze, installed on November 17, 1964 in the Rheinische Landesklinik Bonn (today LVR-Klinik Bonn)

literature

  • Wilhelm Hausenstein: The sculptor Otto Schliessler , in: German Art and Decoration Vol. 70, Koch Verlag, Stuttgart 1932
  • Fritz Wilkendorf: The sculptor Otto Schliessler , in: Ekkhart - year book for the Upper Rhine. Verlag G. Braun, Karlsruhe 1941, pp. 30-43
  • Fritz Wilkendorf: Otto Schliessler, the portrait sculptor , in: Ekkhart - Yearbook for the Badner Land Landesverein Badische Heimat, Freiburg 1957, pp. 15–26
  • Hans Vollmer: General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century , Seemann, Leipzig 1958
  • Martin Schliessler: Drawings by a sculptor - Otto Schliessler , G. Braun GmbH, Karlsruhe 1973

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Illustration in the exhibition catalog Young Art in the German Reich, Vienna 1943, p. 69
  2. ↑ Figure .
  3. ↑ No. 673 in the catalog of the exhibition German Art in Düsseldorf 1928
  4. ↑ Homepage of the Helene-Lange-Schule Mannheim .
  5. ↑ Figure .
  6. ^ Illustration in Davidson.
  7. ↑ Wikipedia article about the monuments in Völklingen .
  8. ↑ Stadtwiki Karlsruhe .
  9. ↑ Figure .
  10. ↑ Data and illustration .
  11. ↑ Data and illustration .
  12. ↑ Stadtwiki Karlsruhe .
  13. ^ Archives in the Rhineland .
  14. ↑ Text and illustration .
personal data
SURNAME Closer, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Forbach , Baden
DATE OF DEATH 4th January 1964
Place of death Baden-Baden