Peter Terkatz

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Peter Terkatz (born February 7, 1880 in Viersen , † August 31, 1954 in Bad Honnef ) was a German sculptor .

Life

His parents were the silk weaver Hermann Terkatz and Anna Maria Thevißen. He is the uncle of the writer Dieter Wellershoff . Terkatz began his training as a sculptor with a stonemason . The entrepreneur Josef Kaiser promoted his studies at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . Terkatz studied from 1909 at the Royal Academic University of Fine Arts Berlin (today Berlin University of the Arts ) with Peter Breuer , the creator of the Beethoven monument in the Rheinaue Bonn, and Ernst Herter , the creator of the Helmholtz statue at the main entrance of the Humboldt -University of Berlin. Between 1911 and 1913 Terkatz created the gable decorations for the Viersener Festhalle, which could be built with the financial support of Josef Kaiser. He took part in the First World War as a company commander. In 1921 he moved to Honnef (Hauptstrasse 14). In 1922 he married Wilhelmine Weber. His studio was on Anna-Platz in Honnef-Rommersdorf until 1929. In the years up to 1933 he repeatedly presented his work at exhibitions at the Prussian Academy of the Arts in Berlin (now the Academy of the Arts ) and in the Obernier Museum in Bonn. In 1933 he received the Rome Prize of the Prussian Academy of the Arts for his work Klagende Frauen and a scholarship to study at the Villa Massimo .

Terkatz's work reveals two creative periods: a “Berlin” and a “Rhenish” or a secular (marble torso) and a sacred (Madonna figures). As a "Berliner" he was modern (in competition with many young talents of his time), as a "Rheinischer" he was committed to the traditional. The group of lamenting women for which he was honored can be seen as a synthesis of both periods and can therefore be considered his masterpiece.

Work (selection)

  • Gable decoration of the festival hall (around 1912) in Viersen
  • Grave complex (1914) of the Kaiser family in the Löh cemetery in Viersen
  • Nude Girl in Bronze (1914 or earlier)
  • Crouching Boy in Bronze (1914 or earlier)
  • Marble knee end (1914 or earlier)
  • Bust of a girl , marble torso of a young woman (1914 or earlier), private collection
  • Anna column (1923) in Honnef- Rommersdorf
  • Portal of the Prosper Hospital (1930) in Recklinghausen
  • Sculptures (1930) on the extension of the Vincenz orphanage in Dortmund
  • Gefallenenmal (1930) on the Poppelsdorf cemetery in Bonn
  • Kröhnke-Nossack tomb (1930 or 1940), Ohlsdorf cemetery , Hamburg
  • Group of Plaintive Women (1932), location? (Illustration in the art library Staatliche Museen Berlin)
  • Statue of the Madonna and equestrian image of Charlemagne (1937) in the Aachen diocesan library
  • War memorial for infantry regiment No. 160 in the nursery forest in Bonn (competition 1920s, inaugurated in 1939)
  • Relief of the plowman (1940 or earlier) at the Wülfing grave in the Bonn south cemetery
  • Madonna figure made of oak (1942) in the Michaelskirche Opladen
  • Crucifixion group (1952) and the Madonna figure (1953) in the Marienkirche in Siegen
  • Statue of the Madonna made of shell limestone (1953) above the portal of the parish church of St. Mary's Visitation in Honnef-Rhöndorf
  • Larger-than-life Madonna figure on the tower of the Church of Our Lady in Arnsberg

gallery

literature

  • Albert Pauly: Peter Terkatz (1880 - 1954), "a Rhenish sculptor" from Viersen , Association for Home Care eV Viersen
  • German art and decoration , illustrated monthly issues, Volume XXXIV, Alexander Koch Publishing House, Darmstadt 1914
  • Josef Niesen: Peter Terkatz . In: Internet portal Rheinische Geschichte.

Web links

Commons : Peter Terkatz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Josef Kaiser founded Kaiser's Kaffee-Geschäfts AG in 1880 (since 2001 Kaiser's Tengelmann )
  2. ↑ The institutional entanglement of the university with the Academy of the Arts occasionally leads to misunderstandings. The college (at that time under the direction of the history painter Anton von Werner ) was only a partially independent institution under the umbrella of the academy, so there is no contradiction, even if it is said that Terkatz was a student at the academy of arts
  3. ↑ The gable sculptures were temporarily attributed to the sculptor Heinz-Peter Dreymüller (1887–1915) from Viersen. The city of Viersen had the figures on the side gables chopped off in 1957. In 2008/2009 the sculptor Burkhard Klöter made replicas. They have been in their intended place since 2009
  4. ↑ Sold by an auction house in Uppsala in June 2011
personal data
SURNAME Terkatz, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Terkatz, Peter Hermann Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Viersen
DATE OF DEATH August 31, 1954
Place of death Honnef