Paul Kimritz

Paul Kimritz (born August 8, 1888 in Königsberg i. Pr. , † 1973 in Erfurt ) was a German sculptor.

Life

Kimritz 'medallion by Mrs. Dewischeit in Lötzen (1908)

Memorial Dewischeit, medallion 2019

Over four years Kimritz was from the carver Albert Boy and the Steinmetz trained Bogumil Sláma. After another year with Sláma, he attended the Königsberg Art Academy . In the first two years he was tutored by two of Friedrich Reusch's students (Borchert and Sauer). Stanislaus Cauer was his teacher for the next two years .

Trained in handling wood , ivory and stone , Kimritz became indispensable for the academy colleagues. Walter Rosenberg , the same age Franz Andreas Threyne and Erich Schmidt-Kestner gave him their models to cut. The air raids on Königsberg and the East Prussian Operation (1945) destroyed most of his works in Königsberg and in the province of East Prussia . In the burned-out Königsberg Cathedral , Kimritz saved the alabaster bust of Dorothea (Prussia) . Today it is in the Pushkin Museum .

In the course of the flight and expulsion of Germans from Central and Eastern Europe between 1945 and 1950 , he came to Erfurt, where he restored church sculptures . He helped Herbert Meinhard Mühlpfordt with a directory of the sculptures in Königsberg, which was published in 1970 by the Göttingen working group .

Works

Colossal eagle in red granite for Kraupischken
Muschelkalk putti riding a ganter in the garden of the art and trade school
Statue of Friedrich III. in the Kalthöfer Church.
Colossal bust by Friedrich Ludwig Jahn
Heads on the tomb for Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet in the New Old Town Cemetery
Arch relief by Leopold Götz
Memorial with relief for Friedrich Dewischeit in Lötzen

Web links

HM Mühlpfordt: One of the quiet in the country. The sculptor Paul Kimritz . In: The Ostpreußenblatt. August 10, 1968, p. 5.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b H. M. Mühlpfordt (1968)
^ Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon. Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1 .
^ HM Mühlpfordt: Königsberg sculptures and their masters 1255–1945. East German contributions from the Göttingen working group, Volume XLVI (1970).
↑ From Schichau to Ferdinand Schulz. Monuments of the Prussia (12). In: Ostpreußenblatt . October 25, 1969, p. 10 , accessed July 10, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Kimritz, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sculptor and restorer
DATE OF BIRTH	August 8, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH	Koenigsberg i. Pr.
DATE OF DEATH	1973
Place of death	Erfurt

[HMM-1] H. M. Mühlpfordt (1968)

[RA-2] Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon. Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1 .

[3] HM Mühlpfordt: Königsberg sculptures and their masters 1255–1945. East German contributions from the Göttingen working group, Volume XLVI (1970).

[4] From Schichau to Ferdinand Schulz. Monuments of the Prussia (12). In: Ostpreußenblatt . October 25, 1969, p. 10 , accessed July 10, 2019 .