Richard Adolf Zutt

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Richard Adolf Zutt (born January 25, 1887 in Basel , † September 12, 1938 in the Suez Canal ) was a Swiss sculptor , painter and medalist .

Life

Growing up in Basel as the fourth son of the Basel government councilor Richard Zutt , he briefly attended the Karlsruhe Art Academy , which he found to be too academic, and continued his autodidactic training in Munich and Florence.

From 1908 to 1921 he was married to the artist Margrit Heer , the daughter of the Swiss writer Jakob Christoph Heer, and had two children with her, the son in Florence and the daughter in Munich.

At the exhibitions of the Munich Secession in the summer of 1912 and at the Bavarian Trade Show in Munich from May to October 1912, he stood out for his wide-ranging work and in autumn was appointed professor at the Royal School of Applied Arts in Budapest. At the same time he founded MMM (Magyar Müveszeti Mühely) as a private Hungarian craft workshop with a sales point.

Between 1921 and 1924 he worked as an art and craft teacher at the school of Alexander Sutherland Neill in Hellerau .

From 1924 he headed the East German workshops in Neisse / Upper Silesia. The staff included the sculptors Otto Zirnbauer and Rudolf Knörlein.

After an exhibition in Paris, where he presented his World Peace Cross project , he returned to Switzerland in December 1930, where he headed the experimental workshop for older unemployed people in Zurich and, from 1936, the RAZUTAL workshop in Degersheim (SG), in the under Among other things, the aluminum alloy Razutal developed by him was processed.

The writings of Ramakrishna and Vivekananda encouraged him to take a “short vacation” in Ceylon from December 1937, and on his return he was killed in 1938 on the German liner Gneisenau in the Suez Canal.

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"Christ" made of Ilse clinker brick, 1920s

A catalog for an exhibition in the National Salon in Budapest in 1925 includes 380 works by Zutt. Various works are photographed in the booklets German Art and Decoration: Illustr. Monthly booklets for modern painting, sculpture, architecture, home art etc. artistic women work. 1912-1919:

  • Bronze sculpture: portrait head
  • Marble plastic: (girl) head with hat (marble)
  • Roman head (around 1910)
  • Mask (around 1910)
  • Roman girl (1912)
  • Expression Study (1913, bronze)
  • "Hungarian Royal Cup" for the coronation of Charles of Austria as King of Hungary (1916)
  • Bowl and chalice (silver with ivory)
  • "Saint Antonius", Großräschen (1924)
  • Figure "Pied Piper" (1929) in Zabrze (PL, formerly Hindenburg, Upper Silesia), copy in the Silesian Zoological Garden

Zutt also created coins and medals.

literature

  • Peter K. Jakob: Richard Adolf Zutt - his life for art craft work. Lulu Press, Morrisville 2018, ISBN 978-0-244-10703-1 .
  • Historical biography lexicon of Switzerland. Vol. 7, 1934, p. 772.
  • Bruno Jahn: The German-language press. A biographical-bibliographical handbook. Saur, Munich 2005, p. 1176.
  • New German Paris newspaper , August 16, 1930
  • Contribution to the experimental workshop for older unemployed people in Zurich ( Swiss Federal Archives E6100A-10 # 1000/1910 # 17 * , Dossier No. 299).
  • State Archives St. Gallen: Dossier Zutt 1937–1938 Razutal_StASG_A_146_060_1.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.sgbk.ch/index.php?id=149 Margrit Gsell-Heer at the Swiss Society of Visual Artists, accessed on December 11, 2017
  2. ↑ https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/kuh1912_1913/0013 Karl Lory: The Bavarian Trade Show Munich 1912 Precious Metals and Stones. in Kunst und Handwerk, born 1912–1913, issue 1 (October 1912) p. 3, accessed on December 11, 2017
  3. ↑ http://paed.com/reformpaedagogik/index.php?action=kind Johann-Martin Kamp: Children's republics. 2. Extended PDF version 2006 of the dissertation 1995. (714 pages), Chapter 17 Neill's school foundation in Dresden pp. 329–376
  4. ^ New German Pariser-Zeitung , August 16, 1930
  5. ↑ Contribution to the experimental workshop for older unemployed people in Zurich (Swiss Federal Archives E6100A-10 # 1000/1910 # 17 *)
  6. ↑ State Archives St. Gallen Dossier Zutt 1937–1938 Razutal
  7. ^ Exhibition catalog Budapest 1925 , accessed on May 21, 2015.
  8. ^ German art and decoration , vol. 35, 1914-1915, p. 208: Bronze-Plastik
  9. ^ German art and decoration , Vol. 35, 1914-1915, p. 209: Marmor-Plastik
  10. ^ Budapest Museum of Fine Arts: Young Roman , accessed May 21, 2015.
  11. ^ Budapest Museum of Fine Arts: Mask
  12. ^ German art and decoration , Vol. 35, 1914-1915, p. 431: Roman girl
  13. ^ German art and decoration , Vol. 35, 1914–1915, p. 430: Expression study
  14. ^ German art and decoration , Vol. 39, 1916–1917, pp. 415–416: Ungarischer Königskelch
  15. ↑ German art and decoration , vol. 43, 1918-1919, p. 179: bowl and chalice
  16. ↑ German Photo Library: "Saint Antonius"
  17. ^ Numismatical Newspaper , Vol. 35, No. 1, February 2005 , p. VI (PDF file; 1.63 MB), accessed on May 19, 2015.
  18. ^ Sunhild Salaschek, Hamburger Kunsthalle: Catalog of medals and plaques of the 19th and 20th centuries in the French and German-speaking areas in the Hamburger Kunsthalle. Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg 1980, Vol. 1, pp. 426–429 (text); Vol. 2, p. 127 (photos).
personal data
SURNAME Zutt, Richard Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES RAZ (signature for caricatures)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss sculptor, painter and medalist
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1938
Place of death Suez Canal