Raimund Kittl

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Raimund Kittl (* 1932 in Vienna ) is an Austrian belt maker , chaser and metal sculptor .

Life

Kittl is a trained master model sculptor and master belt maker and chaser. After the Second World War , he dealt with the repair and restoration of monuments. He later moved from Austria to Germany. He lived for a long time in Flensburg , where he worked with the artist Hein Hoop .

In 1964, he founded his own foundry at Bremer Straße 72 on the headland in the Düsseldorf harbor , which, in addition to casting new metal objects, also made enlargements and reductions of existing objects using the sand mold and lost wax process.

He was a professor at the Düsseldorf Art Academy and until his retirement he was head of the art foundry workshop at Eiskellerstraße 1.

In 1999, master chaser Rolf Kayser took over the Kittls art foundry in the port of Düsseldorf, where he had received his training, and replaced his master in his workshop. In 2008, the married couple Marija and Raimund Kittl finally resigned from the management and appointed Rolf Kayser as the new managing director.

Raimund Kittl described himself as a "naturalist". According to his own statement, he has the ability to shape a head faster than to draw it. Today he lives in Tetenbüll .

Work (selection)

The restored group of figures is lifted onto the base of the Deutsches Eck , 1993
Front view of the reconstructed equestrian statue of Wilhelm I with an angel of victory

One of the highlights of Kittl's work in 1993 was the reconstruction of the equestrian statue of Wilhelm I with an angel of victory at the Deutsches Eck in Koblenz .

The equestrian statue formerly existing there was shot from the pillar hall by the artillery of the 3rd US Army in March 1945 and thus largely destroyed. Werner Theisen (former publisher of the Rhein-Zeitung ) and his wife Anneliese committed in 1987 to finance the reconstruction of the destroyed statue and to donate it to the city of Koblenz, for which the citizens' initiative Deutsches Eck e. V. was founded. Years of heated dispute broke out between the state of Rhineland-Palatinate , the city of Koblenz, the donor and other groups over the implementation of the project. The citizens' initiative and Theisen commissioned Raimund Kittl to reconstruct the group of figures in February 1989, without an agreement having been reached with the state government. The donation of the headland at the Deutsches Eck by the state government to the city of Koblenz paved the way for the reconstruction to be built in May 1992.

In addition to the few remaining fragments, Kittl and his employees also had a scaled-down replica of the original statue that is kept in the Middle Rhine Museum as a template for the reconstruction . They did not use copper plates that were driven and mounted on an iron frame, as they did originally, but instead created 84 individual parts from more resistant cast bronze, which they welded together to form a hollow body. Different alloys were used for the individual parts , so that the resulting patina now has different colors and the individual cast parts can be clearly distinguished. The outer wall of the object is between 8 and 30 millimeters thick, it weighs 69 tons and is 14 meters high.

The completed reconstruction of the equestrian statue was shipped under eleven bridges from Düsseldorf up the Rhine, where it arrived on May 16, 1992 on board the MS Futura in Koblenz. Because of the necessary renovation of the base, the restored group of figures was stored in the Rheinhafen Koblenz for more than a year until it was lifted onto the base on September 2, 1993 by the then largest mobile lattice boom crane in Europe.

Other works that were handcrafted by Kittl:

Web links

Commons : Raimund Kittl  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files
Commons : Raimund Kittl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Uwe Carstens : Dear friend Ferdinand. The remarkable friendship between Theodor Storm and Ferdinand Tönnies. BoD, 2008. ISBN 3-83704-762-8 , pp. 215ff.
  2. ↑ Raimund Kittl. Miscellaneous Nonmetallic Mining Companies - Düsseldorf - Germany. In: FindTheCompany.
  3. ^ Otto J. Groeg: Who's who in the Arts: A Biographical Encyclopedia Containing Some 13,000 Biographies and Addresses of Prominent Personalities, Organizations, Associations and Institutions Connected with the Arts in the Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 2. Who's Who-Book & Publishing, 1978. ISBN 3-92122-022-X , p. 503.
  4. ↑ Marco Zerwas: Learning place 'Deutsches Eck'. On the variability of historical-cultural interpretation patterns. Logos Verlag, Berlin 2015. ISBN 3-83253-856-9 , p. 299.
  5. ^ Archeology of Austria, issues 6-7. Announcements of the Austrian Society for Prehistory and Early History, 1995. p. 41
  6. ^ Reichsstudentenführung, Verband Deutscher Studentenschaften: Deutscher Hochschulführer, Vol. 1-2. Publishing house Dr. Josef Raabe, 1992. p. 29.
  7. ↑ Helga Meister: Great art from a single source. In the Medienhafen, the stars of art have their works made in the Kayser art foundry. ( Memento from April 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: Westdeutsche Zeitung from March 15, 2010.
  8. ↑ Chronicle. ( Memento from June 28, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) In: kunstgiesserei.com.
  9. ↑ Oliver Burwig: Art foundry. A backbreaking job for art. In: Rheinische Post from April 17, 2015.
  10. ↑ Juliane Kaelberlah: monuments in Dusseldorf. Mendelssohn monument almost finished. In: Rheinische Post from July 19, 2012.
  11. ↑ Kunstguß Kittl GmbH. In: cylex.de.
  12. ↑ Raimund Kittl. In: Open Directory Tetenbüll.
  13. ↑ a b Video: How did the Kaiser Wilhelm I monument come about? In: Rhein-Zeitung from September 1, 2013.
  14. ^ Heinz Csallner: German imperial monuments in old views. Zaltbommel / Netherlands 1982, ISBN 9-02881-961-4 , p. 74.
  15. ^ Matthias von der Bank, Ines Heisig (Ed.): Middle Rhine Museum Koblenz . Selection catalog, Petersberg 2017, pp. 156–157.
  16. ↑ monuments. Stone lump. Wilhelm I is supposed to ride again at the "Deutsches Eck" near Koblenz - to the annoyance of the Social Democrats in Mainz. In: Der Spiegel , issue 5/1992 from January 27, 1992.
  17. ↑ Heroic imperial monument or “punch made of stone”? The German Corner in Koblenz. In: Portal Rhenish History of the Rhineland Regional Association .
  18. ^ Relief of the royal court. In: emuseum.duesseldorf.de
  19. ^ Cord Eberspächer, Peter Schamoni, Nicolaus Sombart: Wilhelm II. And Wilhelmshaven: on the topography of a Wilhelmine city. Verlag Lohse-Eissing, Wilhelmshaven 2003. ISBN 3-93051-021-9 , p. 201.
  20. ↑ The Elberfeld Lions. In: denkmal-wuppertal.de.
  21. ^ Raimund Kittl: Willy Millowitsch, Bronze, 1992. Eisenmarkt, 50667 Cologne. In: Art and Museum Library of the City of Cologne .
  22. ↑ Figures in front of block. In: emuseum.duesseldorf.de
  23. ^ Uwe Karwath: Wilhelmshaven. Sights from A to Z.
  24. ^ Johann Ralf Beines, Walter Geis, Ulrich Krings : Cologne: the equestrian monument for King Friedrich Wilhelm III. of Prussia on the hay market. Bachem, Cologne 2004. ISBN 3-76161-796-8 , pp. 1906, 1915, 1917.
  25. ↑ Jens Rönnau: Art by the wayside . In: Kieler Nachrichten of March 28, 2014.
  26. ↑ St. Florian Fountain. In: emuseum.duesseldorf.de
  27. ↑ Heimatbrunnen In: emuseum.duesseldorf.de
  28. ^ Heinrich Heine Monument. In: emuseum.duesseldorf.de
  29. ↑ Markus Knappe: The sculptor Karl Bobek. Life and work. July 12, 2000.
personal data
SURNAME Kittl, Raimund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian master model and sculptor as well as master girders and chiselers
DATE OF BIRTH 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria