Richard Schnauder

Georg Richard Schnauder (born January 12, 1886 in Dresden ; † May 28, 1956 there ) was a German sculptor and draftsman .

Life

Richard Schnauder was born the son of the sculptor Reinhard Schnauder (1856–1923). At an early age he worked in his father's studio and thus received a basis for his later artistic work. As a result, he studied at the Art Academy in Dresden . with J. Große, Ernst Julius Hähnel and later at the arts and crafts school in Paris . His study trips took him to Paris and Rome . He later returned to Dresden and worked as a freelance sculptor in his own studio. He lived at Ziegelstrasse 16 and had his studio on Elisenstrasse. As a result of the multiple devastating bombing raids on Dresden in 1945 , he lost his apartment and studio and all of his works. The new beginning was very difficult in the destroyed city, also because he could not make friends with the new communist rulers. Nevertheless, he worked as an artistic advisor in the reconstruction. His artistic works were mainly small sculptures, portraits and cemetery art.

Works (selection)

Red City Hall Berlin. Detail of the facade with a section of the terracotta relief with scenes from the history of Berlin.

• Groups of putti at the Dresden Art Academy building
• 1922: bronze sculpture of a nude girl on a marble base,
• 1924: bronze sculpture seated eagle, height 55 cm
• 1937: Memorial of KS Infantry Regiment 177 for its 3,376 fallen in the First World War , bronze sculpture, Marienallee 14, Dresden, 1946 removed
• Bronze figure, gilded, young football player on a marble base, height 33.5 cm, private property.
• large bronze plaque Richard Wagner , patinated, 22 cm
• Figures of boys on the balustrade of the extension of the Dresden theater
• Restoration of terracotta friezes at the Rotes Rathaus Berlin with the Dresden sculptor Hansfritz Werner (1952–1954)

literature

• Heinz Busch: What the stone chronicle tells - The frieze on the Berlin town hall. Berlin Information, 1983, DNB 209346698 .
• Heinz Quinger : Dresden and the surrounding area. Art - travel guide. DuMont Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3-7701-4028-1 , p. B 214.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Birth register StA Dresden I, No. 93/1886
2. ↑ Death register StA Dresden I, No. 834/1956
3. ↑ Archive of the Dresden University of Fine Arts.
4. ↑ Dresden Address Book 1944. P. 776.
5. ^ Archives of the Dresden Art Academy (files from the register, art fund).
6. ↑ brunnenturmfigur.de ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2013 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. . 
7. ↑ lot-tissimo.com .
8. ↑ hermann-historica.de
9. ↑ mehlis.eu ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2016 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.