Richard Grüttner
Richard Grüttner (born April 7, 1854 in Breslau ; † July 3, 1919 in Berlin ) was a German sculptor .
From 1868 to 1872 he attended the art school in Breslau . He then worked as a stone sculptor in Leipzig , Berlin, Dresden , Paris and Munich . For some time he was in charge of the molding of the pieces found during the excavations in Olympia from 1874 onwards for the Berlin plaster molding shop . In 1886/1887 he set up the museum at the excavation site. After a stay in Italy, he returned to Berlin in 1889.
Works
- In 1883 he created the reconstruction of the Nike des Paionios .
Statue of St. Michael in front of the Egestorff Foundation's Rosenhof in the Osterholz district of Bremen
Statue of Freiherrn vom und zum Stein at Rathaus Wetter , 1909
Detail, Luisenstädtischer Friedhof , Berlin-Kreuzberg
Detail, Richard Güntsche grave , Berlin-Wilmersdorf
literature
- H. Pomtow: The Paionios-Nike in Delphi . In: Yearbook of the Imperial German Archaeological Institute . tape 37 . Georg Reimer, Berlin 1922, p. 55 ff . ( Text archive - Internet Archive ).
- Grüttner, Richard . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 140 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sibylle Einholz (arrangement): “Fine, white… plaster!” On the meaning of a controversial material. (Booklet for the exhibition in the Heimatmuseum Charlottenburg) Berlin 1991, p. 3 f.
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SURNAME | Grüttner, Richard |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 7, 1854 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
DATE OF DEATH | July 3, 1919 |
Place of death | Berlin |