Paul Lindau (sculptor)

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Rudolf Wilhelm Paul Lindau (born October 23, 1881 in Ortrand , † February 13, 1945 in Dresden ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Lindau learned the trade of wood sculptor and attended a drawing school. He studied from 1902 to 1903 at the Royal Saxon School of Applied Arts in Dresden and then from 1906 to 1914 at the Royal Saxon Academy of Fine Arts there . In 1906 he became a member of the Corps Lusatia Dresden. Richard Müller , Robert Diez and Selmar Werner were among his teachers .

After a study trip to Italy, he lived and worked in Dresden from 1913. He was a member of various art associations and the Reich Association of Visual Artists . He was killed in the bombing of Dresden in 1945 and a burial could not take place. Only a few works by Lindau have survived. Many of them were destroyed during the Second World War or dismantled after 1945.

Works

Fonts

  • Clay and cement as the artist's material . In: Tonindustrie-Zeitung 46 (1922), p. 44.

literature

  • Willy Oskar Dressler : Dressler's art manual . Eighth year, second volume. Wasmuth, Berlin 1921, p. 357.
  • Willy Oskar Dressler: Dressler's art manual . Ninth year, second volume. Curtius, Berlin 1930, p. 615.
  • Lindau, Paul . In: Ernst-Günter Knüppel: Robert Diez. Sculpture between Romanticism and Art Nouveau. Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2009, pp. 180–181.
  • Hans Vollmer : General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century . Volume 3. EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 233.

Individual evidence

  1. Manfred Feller: City of Ortrand remembers its great daughters and sons , in: Lausitzer Rundschau , January 22, 2005.
  2. Erwin Willmann (Ed.): Directory of the old Rudolstädter Corps students. (AH. List of the RSC.) , 1928 edition, No. 2781
  3. Märchenhaus ( Memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), Singer City Finsterwalde
  4. ^ Great German Art Exhibition in 1939 in the House of German Art in Munich . Knorr & Hirth, Munich 1939, p. 55 ( digitized version - official exhibition catalog).
  5. ^ Supplementary part to the official exhibition catalog of the Great German Art Exhibition 1941 in the House of German Art in Munich . F. Bruckmann, Munich 1941, p. 16 ( digitized version ).