Philipp Harth

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Philipp Harth (1940)

Philipp Harth (born July 9, 1885 in Mainz , † December 25, 1968 in Bayrischzell ) was a German sculptor.

Philipp and Ida Harth (1962)

Life

Philipp Harth: Tiger, bronze, 1936 (Kunsthalle Mannheim)
Ph.Harth, lion, bronze Kunsthalle Mannheim

After training in his father's stonemason as a stone printer from 1901 to 1903, Philipp Harth trained as a sculptor in Mainz and Karlsruhe . In 1908 he married the future opera singer Ida zur Nieden .

In 1908/09 he lived temporarily in Munich , Worpswede and Mainz, where he was also a teacher at the arts and crafts school. In the first few years, Harth created wooden reliefs with depictions of animals and wooden sculptures. After 1925 he devoted himself entirely to animal sculptures. In 1910 he moved to Berlin and stayed there until 1941. In Berlin he completed an architecture apprenticeship with Peter Behrens and Hermann Muthesius . After the First World War , from which he returned seriously injured in 1917, he resumed his studies at the Kunstgewerbeschule Charlottenburg with Hans Perathoner . Philipp Harth worked at the Odenwald School and worked there as a teacher of art education with interruptions until 1930. This was followed by study visits to Paris , Rome , Hamburg , Cologne and the main Trakehnen stud . From 1926 to 1933 Harth worked as a freelance artist in Schwaz (Tyrol). Until 1934 he was a member of the Berlin Secession .

Barth was initially a supporter of the Nazi regime and hoped that it would support his artistic work. A cast of a tiger sculpture that had been acquired by the Reich Aviation Ministry was shown several times in propaganda exhibitions in areas occupied by Germans. In the course of the Second World War, he increasingly took a critical stance towards the Nazi regime.

After his Berlin apartment and studio were destroyed by bombs in 1941, the family was evacuated to Offenhausen . There, after a denunciation, Harth was arrested by the Gestapo and placed under police supervision because he had made derogatory comments about art policy in the “Third Reich” .

From 1946 he lived in Bayrischzell, where he died in 1968.

The focus of Harth's work was on large animal sculptures in wood, stone and bronze. Works by him can be found in Mainz, Mannheim, Berlin, Hamburg, Düsseldorf and in Grugapark Essen , among others .

Philipp Harth's circle of friends included the painters Werner Gilles , George Grosz , Emil van Hauth , Erich Heckel , Alexej Jawlensky , Emil Nolde and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff as well as the sculptors and architects Georg Kolbe , Kurt Lehmann , Gustav Seitz , Mies van der Rohe and Hermann Muthesius . He had a very close friendship with the founder of the Odenwald School Paul Geheeb and his wife Edith Geheeb-Cassirer. Philipp Harth was a member of the German Association of Artists .

After his death, there was a museum in his home and studio in Bayrischzell, in which around 150 exhibits could be seen. On July 6, 1991, the Philipp Harth Gesellschaft egV was founded in Bayrischzell.

Two storks in the Rheinpark Cologne
Heron (bronze) in Grugapark Essen
Horse group (bronze, 1938) in the Grugapark Essen

Works (selection)

  • Jaguar (walnut wood) for the National Gallery Berlin (1927)
  • Eagle (bronze) for the Pergamon Museum Berlin (1928)
  • Seated Jaguar (bronze), small sculpture from the Schwazer series (1931)
  • Tiger (bronze) stands on the banks of the Rhine in Mainz, in front of the Berlin Zoo , in Grugapark Essen, in Mannheim and in the courtyard of the Pomeranian State Museum in Greifswald (1936–37)
  • Horse group (bronze) in Grugapark Essen (1938)
  • Lion (bronze), Kunsthalle Mannheim (1940)
  • Heron (copper) in Hannover City Park (1951)
  • Heron (bronze) in the courtyard of the Liselotte-Gymnasium Mannheim (1951)
  • Wolf (bronze), Kunsthalle Hamburg and in front of the Natural History Museum in Mainz (1953)
  • Fountain with three stone pelicans on the O 7 square in Mannheim (1953)
  • Striding storks (bronze) including Kunsthalle Mannheim , Grugapark Essen and Rheinpark Cologne (stolen there on March 14, 2016) (1957)
  • Stork and female stork (bronze) including Mönchengladbach and the Schlangenbad spa gardens (1957)
  • Striding lion (bronze), Königsallee Düsseldorf (1963), depicting the Bergisch lion there
  • Donkey (bronze) including Stadtpark Mainz and Allwetterzoo Münster (1964)
  • Standing lion (bronze) Mönckebergbrunnen Hamburg (1965)

Harth also wrote a few books and treatises on sculpture and recorded his childhood memories in the book Mainzer Viertelbuben .

Lost works (selection)

  • Crib (wood), last recorded at the Aue crib show in 1934 (1920)
  • The Thinker (linden wood), statue of the philosopher Christoph Schrempf (1921)
  • Pietà (oak) (1922)
Pietà (oak), lost (1922)
  • Hyena (walnut wood), last exhibited in Munich in 1935 (1926)
  • Dromedary herd (walnut wood relief), most recently in the Bruno Adriani Collection in Carmel, USA (1927)
Herd of camels (wood relief), lost (1927)
  • Tiger (marble relief), most recently in the Bruno Adriani Collection in Carmel, USA (1931)
Tiger (marble relief), missing (1931)
  • Pelican shell (wood) last at the Pelikan factory in Hanover (1951)
  • Two pelicans (relief, embossed copper sheet), most recently in an exhibition in Mainz in 1962 (1954)

Awards

  • 1935 - Villa Romana Prize awarded by the German Association of Artists
  • 1937 - Grand Prix with gold medal at the international art exhibition in Paris
  • 1956 - Cornelius Prize of the City of Düsseldorf
  • 1958 - Art Prize for Sculpture from the State Government of Rhineland-Palatinate
  • 1962 - Art Prize of the City of Mainz on the occasion of the 2000 year celebration
  • 1967 - Honorary member of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich
  • 1967 - Silver city seal of the city of Mainz on the 80th birthday

Fonts (selection)

  • Essays on sculptural design . Riemerschmidt Verlag, Berlin 1939
  • Mainz quarter boys . Publishing house Dr. Hanns Krach, Mainz 1962
  • Thoughts on sculptural design . Self-published in 1967
  • Pegasus, a poetic fling . Printing: Verlag Hanns Krach, Mainz 1973

literature

  • Bruno Adriani : Monograph Philipp Harth . Riemerschmidt Verlag, Berlin 1939
  • Friedrich Gerke : Philipp Harth. Life - Works - Thoughts (= Small Writings of the Society for Fine Arts; Book XI). Mainz 1962
  • Wilhelm Boeck : About the plastic with Philipp Harth . Publisher Hanns Krach, Mainz 1967
  • Walter Heist, Philipp Harth: The sculptor Philipp Harth . Publishing house Hanns Krach, Mainz 1974
  • Ulrich Gertz: Philipp Harth . Werner Helmes: People and Effects - Biographical Essays. Krach, Mainz 1979. Edited by the Landesbank Rheinland-Pfalz Girozentrale, ISBN 3-87439-065-9
  • Eberhard Vogel: Of tigers, pelicans and herons - the animal sculptor Philipp Harth . In: 100 years Liselotte-Gymnasium Mannheim . Festschrift for the anniversary 2011

Catalogs

  • Galerie Karl Buchholz Berlin: Emil van Hauth Oil Paintings - Philipp Harth Plastik (1939)
  • Kunsthalle Mannheim: Philipp Harth (1957)
  • Art History Institute of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz: Philipp Harth - Sculptures and Drawings (1962)
  • Mannheimer Kunstverein: Philipp Harth on his 80th birthday (1967)
  • Kunst- und Kunstgewerbeverein Pforzheim: Philipp Harth on his 80th birthday (1967)
  • Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern: Philipp Harth - sculptures and drawings (1970)
  • Otto Fischer, Kunstsalon, Bielefeld: The sculptor Philipp Harth (1971)
  • Günter Franke, Munich: Philipp Harth, sculptures, reliefs, drawings (1971)
  • Middle Rhine State Museum, Mainz: Philipp Harth - Animal sculptures and drawings (1975)
  • Gerhard Marcks Foundation Bremen: Philipp Harth - Gerhard Marcks and German Animal Sculpture in the 20th Century (1977)
  • Mittelrheinisches Landesmuseum, Mainz: Philipp Harth on his 100th birthday - Animals in German sculpture of the 20th century (1985)
  • Rabalderhaus Schwaz: The animal sculptor Philipp Harth and his time in Schwaz (2002)
  • Kunsthalle Mannheim: Noah's Ark - animal sculptures by Philipp Harth (2010)

Web links

Commons : Philipp Harth  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernd Fäthke, Alexej Jawlensky, heads etched and painted, Die Wiesbadener Jahre, Galerie Draheim, Wiesbaden 2012, p. 63 f. ISBN 978-3-00-037815-7
  2. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Harth, Philipp ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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 15, 2015) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  3. ^ Illustration in the exhibition catalog Young Art in the German Empire, Vienna 1943, p. 74 [1]
personal data
SURNAME Harth, Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 1968
Place of death Bayrischzell