Otto stickleback

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Otto stickleback

Otto Stichling (born April 10, 1866 in Ohrdruf ; † April 28, 1912 in Berlin ) was a German sculptor and member of the Werkring Association and the Werdandi Association .

education

Relief on the bay window of Villa Lehmann , 1902
The Mourner , 1906
The four copper tower figures at the Charlottenburg town hall
Pilasters with motifs of blissful wine at the Trarbach house , 1906
Fountain wall in the garden courtyard of Haus Trarbach Behrenstr. 47
Chemnitz-Bellmann-Fountain, 1907

Otto Stichling was born the illegitimate son of the underage Auguste Wilhelmine Rosalie Stichling. Otto's biological father remained unknown. It was decreed that Otto "according to the notification of the ducal justice office of May 29, 1866 , has to lead the weight of the mother" stickleback "". On July 26, 1868 his mother, the only daughter of the master shoemaker Johann Christian Friedrich Stichling, married the Ohrdrufer tailor Wilhelm Bernhard Frommann.

After attending public school in Ohrdruf Otto stickleback completed an apprenticeship as a porcelain painter in the local porcelain manufactory Kestner & Comp .. During this period, Duke Ernst of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha attention to him and encouraged him with a scholarship for studying in Berlin . From 1886 to 1893 Otto Stichling studied at the Berlin Academy of the Arts with Fritz Schaper and Ernst Herter . During his studies he worked as an artistic assistant in the studios of the sculptors Joseph Uphues , Eduard Lürssen , Ernst Westphal and Gustav Eberlein in order to finance his living .

life and work

The first artistic successes of his work were a first prize for a design for a "Spreabrunnen", which was to be installed in the Berlin City Hall , but was never executed, and a victory in 1890 in a competition for two colossal figures for the Wiesbaden State Theater . Fritz Klimsch and Otto Stichling designed the larger-than-life figure of "War Science" sitting on a lion for the "homage car" in the pageant for the 90th birthday of Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke on October 25, 1890 .

Around 1900 Otto Stichling modeled the plastic parts in the Pallenberg Hall of the Cologne Museum of Decorative Arts , designed by Melchior Lechter , including four gilded bronze statues ( painting , sculpture , music and poetry ) - supplemented by inscriptions by Stefan Georges and Friedrich Nietzsche - as well as 24 figurative ones Wood reliefs (door panels) and two majolica sculptures . The State Hall was awarded a Grand Prix at the Paris World Exhibition in 1900 as a “spatial total work of art of Art Nouveau ”. In addition, the plastic music was exhibited at the German national art exhibition in Düsseldorf in 1907.

Stickleback designed numerous tombs in the course of his life. The 2.30 meter high sandstone tomb for the Gerson Salinger family in the Jewish cemetery at Schönhauser Allee was constructed in 1900 by the Schöneberg stonemason's workshop Witschel. For Ditta Hake, wife of the sculptor and architect Ernst Hake (1844–1925), he designed a table grave in 1901 with a stored bronze sculpture of the deceased in a stylized form and the inscription “Sleep is my happiness: Don't wake me up; speak quiet". Ernst Hake carried it out himself on Luisenfriedhof III in Berlin-Westend .

From 1901 to 1902 Otto Stichling created the relief on the bay window of the house when the toy manufacturer Ernst Paul Lehmann was rebuilding the house in Brandenburg an der Havel . With this renovation work, led by the Berlin architect Bruno Möhring , the joint work of the two and their membership in the artists' association Werkring began . For the family of Kommerzienrat Alfred Abraham Cohn, Stichling designed an elaborate wall grave with pylons made of Odenwald syenite with blue enamel tiles and bronze decorations with Art Nouveau ornaments in the Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee in 1903 .

In 1904, the Werkring artists' association took part in the world exhibition in St. Louis . Otto Stichling received a large gold medal for two groups of copper fountain figures exhibited in the courtyard, which subsequently found an unknown American buyer.

Otto Stichling created the four copper - chased tower figures and the bronze, allegorical lighting figures on the facade of the entrance area for the Charlottenburg town hall. Like the marble busts of Emperor Wilhelm II and Empress Auguste Viktoria for the council chamber of the Charlottenburg town hall, they are no longer preserved today.

In 1905 Otto Stichling executed the Art Nouveau grave for Auguste and Oskar Haussmann in Traben-Trarbach based on the designs by Bruno Möhring . For the wall grave of the Kurtze family on the Georgen-Parochial-Friedhof II in Berlin-Friedrichshain he created a bronze relief with a farewell scene with the inscription "Wiedersehen". In the same year stickleback designed Die Sinnende , a standing nude with a bowed head. It was only after Otto Stichling's death in May 1912 that the Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin acquired the model from his heirs and only made it a few times from white bisque porcelain . The young woman , a 1.55 meter life-size female figure, cast in bronze in 1905 , was exhibited at the great Berlin art exhibitions in 1906 and 1908 and received a gold medal in 1908 . In 1908 the statue was bought by the Berlin National Gallery and since 1930 it has been on permanent loan from the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation at the entrance to the Eichtalpark in Hamburg-Wandsbek . Completely restored in 2006 , it was stolen there in 2010 and has since disappeared. The bust Die Träumende was also exhibited at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition in 1908 .

In 1906, stickleback created the bronze statue of mourners for the Schumann-Recke hereditary burial in the St. Marien and St. Nikolai cemetery I in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg and the six relief groups on the pilasters of the Haus Trarbach wine house in Berlin ( Behrenstraße 47 ), whose 2.50 meter figures show scenes of wine enjoyment: left and right outside the couple nudes "Der Labetrank" and "Der Liebestrunk", in between from left to right the women's nudes "The grape", "The flower of wine", "The dance as Effect of the wine ”and“ The wine - the finished drink ”. Otto Stichling made the bronze figure for the house's courtyard fountain designed by the Friedenau architect Richard Walter.

From 1907 Otto Stichling lived in Altona and created the Chemnitz-Bellmann fountain , presumably based on designs by Hermann Hausmann (1865–1907) , with a relief plate of allegorical figures and the inscription: “The poet of the song Schleswig Holstein, wrapped around the sea, German Sitte high watch, Matthäus Friedrich Chemnitz ”, made of sandstone on the retaining wall of the Rainvilleterrasse in Hamburg-Ottensen . On the mediation of Hermann Muthesius , Otto Stichling worked as a teacher at the crafts and arts and crafts school in Altona from 1907 to 1910 and was one of the founding members of the Altonaer Künstlerverein (AKV), which was founded in 1909. He created the sandstone statues of Martin Luther and Nikolaus Kopernikus at the main entrance for the secondary school in Altona , which was built from 1908 to 1910 .

In 1910 Otto Stichling returned to Berlin and accepted the call to the crafts and arts and crafts school in Charlottenburg . He taught there until his death in 1912. In the spring of 1911 Otto Stichling suffered a first attack of weakness , but resumed his work on the interior of the ocean liner Cap Finisterre, which had already begun in Altona, and his teaching activities until another severe attack of weakness ended his artistic work.

Otto Stichling was married and died at the age of only 46 on April 28, 1912 of a heart attack in a sanatorium in Berlin.

Picture gallery

  • Bust of Sophie Doehner

  • Portrait bust

  • The dreaming , 1908

  • Fountain in the winter garden of the ocean liner Cap Finisterre

  • Gargoyles on the fountain in the winter garden of the ocean liner Cap Finisterre

  • Frieze on the fireplace in the smoking room of the ocean liner Cap Finisterre

  • Frieze to the fireplace in the smoking room of the ocean liner Cap Finisterre (detail)

  • Design for a fountain

  • Fountain group (1) for the World Exhibition in St. Louis 1904

  • Fountain group (2) for the World Exhibition in St. Louis 1904

  • Stone fountain

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f ohrdruf.de - Sculptor Professor Otto Stichling ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on August 16, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ohrdruf.de
  2. ↑ Uwe Puschner, Walter Schmitz, Justus H. Ulbricht: Handbook on the "Völkische Movement" 1871-1918 , Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1996, p. 319. ( digitized version ), accessed on August 17, 2015
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Otto Stichling - An obituary by Hans Schliepmann  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in Berliner Architekturwelt , Volume 15, December 1912, pp. 344–355 (PDF), accessed on August 19, 2015@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / europeanalocal.de  
  4. ↑ Moltke's special day. Latest communications, IX. Vintage. No. 85 of Tuesday, October 28, 1890. (digitized version) , accessed on August 22, 2015
  5. ^ Walther Greischel, Stefan George Foundation: Stefan George in a portrait: selection . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1976, p. 24. ( digitized version ), accessed on August 15, 2015
  6. ↑ Jürgen Krause: "Martyrs" and "Prophet". Studies on the Nietzsche cult in the visual arts of the turn of the century . Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1984, p. 81. ( digitized version ), accessed on August 15, 2015; Wolfgang Osthoff: Stefan George and "les deux musiques": sonorous poetry set to music in harmony and conflict . Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden 1989, p. 53 ( digitized version ), accessed on August 15, 2015.
  7. ↑ stadt-koeln.de : Speech by Lord Mayor Jürgen Roters on the occasion of the ceremony to mark the 125th anniversary of the Museum of Applied Arts Cologne on June 10, 2013, 7 p.m., MAKK (PDF), accessed on August 16, 2015
  8. ↑ a b c d e f g stickleback, Otto . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 32 : Stephens – Theodotos . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1938, p. 36-37 .
  9. ^ Everhard Kleinertz: Files of the cultural administration of the city of Cologne 1880-1930 Volume 1, Historical Archive of the City of Cologne, Cologne 2005, p. 139 ( digitized version ).
  10. ↑ Wolfgang Gottschalk: The cemeteries of the Jewish community in Berlin. Argon, Berlin 1992, ISBN 978-3-8702-4201-5 , p. 54
  11. ↑ uni-bonn.de: Dissertation of Ulrike Meyer Evangelia -Woeller - tombs of the 19th century in the Rhineland between identity, customization and individuality. ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 22, 2015; Birgit Jochens, Herbert May: The cemeteries in Charlottenburg .: History of the cemetery complexes and their tomb culture. Stapp-Verlag, 1994, p. 132. (digitized version) , accessed on August 22, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / hss.ulb.uni-bonn.de
  12. ↑ a b kmkbuecholdt.de - Bruno Möhring (1863-1929) From Little Bridge Man to Urban Development , accessed on August 16, 2015
  13. ↑ berliner-grabmale-retten.de Alfred Cohn , accessed on August 21, 2015; stadtentwicklung.berlin.de Jüdischer Friedhof Weißensee ( Memento of the original from June 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on August 21, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de
  14. ↑ berlin.de -Gisela Scholtze: The three town halls of the city of Charlottenburg , accessed on August 16, 2015; Architekturmuseum.ub.tu -berlin.de - Otto Stichling: Allegorical figure decorations, mostly for the main facade of the Berlin-Charlottenburg town hall, draft and execution models , accessed on August 17, 2015
  15. ↑ bildindex.de:Grabmal Oskar Haussmann, died 1905 , accessed on August 16, 2015
  16. ↑ hartwig-w.de: Kurtze wall grave (picture) , accessed on August 22, 2015; Friedhofsfinder.stiftung-historische-friedhoefe.de: Cemetery II of the Georgen Parochial Community (Kurtze wall grave) , accessed on August 22, 2015
  17. ↑ beyars.com - Auction (May 8, 2010 - June 8, 2010): Figure "Sinnende" , accessed on August 16, 2015
  18. ↑ bildindex.de:Junges Weib , accessed on August 16, 2015
  19. ↑ alscher-restaurierung.de: Young woman , accessed on August 18, 2015
  20. ↑ hamburger-wochenblatt.de: The "Hun" has to go back to Berlin ( Memento of the original from May 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on August 18, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hamburger-wochenblatt.de
  21. ↑ ansichtskarten-center.de -Otto stickleback "Daydreaming" Great Berlin Art Exhibition , accessed on August 16, 2015
  22. ↑ M. Creutz. - The new building "Haus Trarbach" ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in Berliner Architekturwelt, 8th year, December 1906, pp. 61–76 (PDF), accessed on August 20, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / 130.73.102.69
  23. ^ Rainvilleterrasse Chemnitz-Relief, Hamburg - Ottensen (Hamburg) , accessed on August 16, 2015
  24. ↑ hamburg.de: Baudenkmal Gymnasium Altona , accessed on August 20, 2015

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personal data
SURNAME Stickleback, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Ohrdruf
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1912
Place of death Berlin