Otto Stüber

Otto Stüber (born April 7, 1885 in Munich , † March 4, 1973 in Hamburg ) was a German gold and silversmith .

Life

Otto Stüber completed an apprenticeship with Fritz von Miller in Munich. He then went to Hamburg, where he worked from 1908 to 1910 in the workshop of the Senate goldsmith Alexander Schönauer. Together with Christoph Kay, he ran a workshop from 1910 to 1920 based on Anckelmannstrasse. He later had his own workshop, which had been on Graskeller Street since 1926. The building was destroyed during World War II in 1943. From 1946 to 1960 he had a workshop in Hamburg-Duvenstedt . His daughter Brigitte (married Klosowski), born in 1924, studied with him in his workshop and continued the gold and silversmith's trade. Her son Arnd Kai Klosowski has now taken over the workshop.

Otto Stüber died in Hamburg in early March 1973.

Works

Otto Stüber made jewelry and table utensils. For this, he mostly used silver, sometimes gold. In the 1920s and 1930s he also created pieces of copper and brass, and occasionally nickel silver. There are only a few accentuating stones to be found in his jewelry. The main work of Stüber are necklaces, pendants, brooches, rings and earrings. A special feature were chains for the deans of Hamburg University based on designs by Carl Otto Czeschka , which were created in the early 1920s. As a silversmith, Stüber made coffee and tea sets, trays, bowls, cans, jugs, mugs and cutlery. He also made liturgical objects and lighting fixtures. He created sports and honorary awards for the Hamburg Senate. Occasionally he also formed sculptural figures.

Several style phases can be found in Stüber's works. The objects made until around 1915 are reminiscent of Scandinavian silver. Stüber designed works from the early 1920s in the style of the Wiener Werkstätte and Art Deco . During this period he used designs by Carl Otto Czeschka and Anton Kling several times . Works created from 1926 onwards show the influences of the New Objectivity . Stüber created basic geometric shapes and reduced the number of machining operations. He repeated and added the same elements, which made the jewelry look unusually strict for this period. After the end of the Second World War, Stüber reverted to style elements from the pre-war period. Here you can find more pieces that are reminiscent of Scandinavian jewelry.

In 1914, Stüber took part in the Cologne Werkbund exhibition. Otherwise he rarely exhibited nationwide. For many years he participated in the Christmas fairs of the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg . This museum now houses many of the artist's works. Numerous objects created by Otto Stüber are privately owned.

literature

• Rüdiger Joppien: Stüber, Otto . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 3 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-8353-0081-4 , p. 373-374 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Workshop mark at the Federal Association of Arts and Crafts. Retrieved October 12, 2015.