Otto Zehentbauer
Otto Zehentbauer (born August 27, 1880 in Landshut ; † August 20, 1961 in Munich ) was a German sculptor who specialized in church art and was successful in depicting nativity scenes .
Life
Otto Zehentbauer completed an apprenticeship in Michael Mayer's sculpture workshop in Landshut. For some time he was an assistant to Master Linner in Landshut and went to Munich in 1902. Here he studied four semesters at the School of Applied Arts , including the subject of figure with Heinrich Waderé , and architecture with Leonhard Romeis . A 14-semester sculpture course at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts under Balthasar Schmitt in Munich followed.
His work was heavily focused on Christian art. As a freelance sculptor, he created figures of saints and crucifixes, mainly nativity scenes. They were either completely carved from wood or they were cloth-clad figures with the carved head and limbs connected with wire or ball joints. A variant were figures made of so-called chilled cast , a special plaster of paris that was reinforced with wire and linen fabric.
Otto Zehentbauer was a member of the Bayerischer Krippenfreunde association and was a member of the Munich local group for over 40 years. Before the Second World War, a full-length nativity film was made in broadband cinema format (silent film), which contains an approximately 15-minute scene in Zehentbauer's studio at Lerchenauer Straße 206.
Otto Zehentbauer's studio remained unchanged until 2014. At the beginning of 2014, the non-profit foundation of Raiffeisenbank München Nord bought the property and had the building demolished on January 11, 2017.
Dissemination of his works
Zehentbauer worked for monasteries and churches in Aachen, Bayreuth, Bernkastel, Bonn, Erlangen, Freising, Fürth, Fulda, Lichtenborn, Mallersdorf, Miltenberg, Munich, Nuremberg, Olching, Paderborn, Raesfeld, Saarbrücken, Speyer, Springiersbach, Waxweiler and Moselkern .
The Maria of the nativity scene in Munich Cathedral is shown on a Christmas postage stamp from Deutsche Post.
literature
- Zehentbauer, Otto . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 36 : Wilhelmy-Zyzywi . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1947, p. 431 .
- W. Zils: Otto Zehentbauer. In: The Christian Art . 17th year (1920/21), pp. 29–35 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Karola Kennerknecht: Otto Zehentbauer, sculptor and crib artist. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2012, ISBN 978-3-89870-797-8 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The demolition is sealed. In: sueddeutsche.de. April 9, 2015, accessed August 26, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zehentbauer, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 27, 1880 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Landshut |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 20, 1961 |
| Place of death | Munich |