Richard Knecht

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Richard Knecht (born January 25, 1887 in Tübingen , † August 14, 1966 in Munich ) was a German sculptor and painter .

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Richard Knecht studied from 1906 to 1914 at the Munich Art Academy in the sculpture class of Erwin Kurz and Adolf von Hildebrand , studying the sculptures of the German Gothic, the Italian Renaissance and the works of Auguste Rodin and Aristide Maillol . He made his debut at the Great Art Exhibition in Stuttgart in 1913 with a bust of his father that was bought by the state. Shortly before the end of his studies, he was commissioned by Franz von Stuck in 1914 to model the large fighting amazon (also riding amazon ) von Stucks based on a 1:10 model. A copy of it is still standing in front of the Villa Stuck in Munich and Eberswalde.

In 1929 Knecht was awarded the title of professor and in 1934 the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich made him an honorary member. In 1937 the Prussian Academy of the Arts in Berlin accepted him as a full member. 1933 and 1937 to 1939, he was together with Hermann Kaspar of the NSDAP Gau Munich with the design of the parades on the Day of German Art commissioned the 1937 under the motto German Two thousand years of culture is emphasized. From November 1, 1939, he had a teaching position at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. In 1942, at the request of German Bestelmeyer , he finally became a full professor of sculpture in Munich. One of his best-known students is Marlene Neubauer-Woerner , who moved from Josef Henselmann to Richard Knecht in 1942 and was his master student until 1945.

On the occasion of his 50th birthday in 1937, Knecht was described by the Völkischer Beobachter as the most important sculptor in Munich; according to Ernst Klee , he was on the God-gifted list in 1944 .

After the war, Knecht was stripped of his professor title due to his involvement with the Nazi regime. However, he experienced a kind of rehabilitation in 1949 when the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich made him an honorary member. He was a long-time member of the Munich Secession and its jury at the Haus der Kunst. Knecht belonged to a. of the Innviertel artists' guild. He was buried in Munich's north cemetery in 1966 .

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Memorial for Theodor von Cramer-Klett on the premises of the MAN engine plant in Nuremberg . The monumental seated figure in aluminum was designed by Richard Knecht and cast by Hermann Noack in 1939/40.
The four evangelists on the outer wall of the Church of the Resurrection in Bebra

A detailed catalog of works can be found in Wilhelm Rüdiger's book Der Bildhauer Richard Knecht on pp. 89–96 (see literature ).

  • From the pageant Two Thousand Years of German Culture on the Day of German Art 1937 in Munich, designs by Richard Knecht and Hermann Kaspar, Munich 1937
  • Bathers , plaster of paris , Great German Art Exhibition, Munich, 1940
  • Frederick the Great , plaster, Great German Art Exhibition, Munich, 1939
  • Portrait bust of Adolf Jutz , Munich, 1938
  • Portrait of Miss H. , Glaspalast, Munich
  • Four evangelists , drafts and plaster models for the Evangelical Church of the Resurrection in Bebra , 1953–57.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 03218 Richard Knecht. In: Matriculation Book 1884–1920. ( matrikel.adbk.de . Accessed January 11, 2014).
  2. ↑ Knecht, Richard . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 20 : Kaufmann – Knilling . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 578 .
  3. ↑ Richard Knecht: From Moses to Malchus. Klara Knecht, Munich 1975.
  4. ↑ Stefan Schweizer: "Giving our worldview visible expression." National Socialist images of history in historical pageants. Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-8353-0107-8 .
  5. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 .
  6. ↑ The Gothic Painting of the Middle Ages  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / spkkunstbibliothek-cdm.gbv.de  
  7. ↑ Badender, 1940 ( Memento of the original from January 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / spkkunstbibliothek-cdm.gbv.de
  8. ↑ Frederick the Great, 1939 ( Memento of the original from January 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / spkkunstbibliothek-cdm.gbv.de
  9. ↑ Portrait bust of Adolf Jutz, 1938 ( Memento of the original from January 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / spkkunstbibliothek-cdm.gbv.de
  10. ↑ Portrait Miss H. ( Memento of the original from January 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / spkkunstbibliothek-cdm.gbv.de
  11. ↑ Church of the Resurrection in Bebra . Retrieved January 9, 2016.

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personal data
SURNAME Servant, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor, painter and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Tübingen
DATE OF DEATH August 14, 1966
Place of death Munich