Robert Bednorz

Robert Bednorz (born May 18, 1882 in Pilzendorf (Upper Silesia), today a district of Zabrze , † April 6, 1973 in Wiesbaden ) was a German sculptor and university professor .

life and work

Bednorz first completed a craft apprenticeship and then studied between 1903 and 1907 at the Royal Art and Applied Arts School in Breslau under Albert Werner-Schwarzburg (1857-1911) and from 1907 to 1910 as a master student of Ludwig Manzel in Berlin. In 1911/1912 he stayed at the Villa Strohl-Fern on a Rome scholarship and worked in Wroclaw on his return. In 1913, a Pallas Athene fountain was created for the inner courtyard of the cultural history department of the exhibition of the century in Breslau as a joint work by Bednorz and Hans Poelzig .

From 1924 until its closure in 1932, Bednorz was a professor of sculpture at the Breslau Academy of Arts and Crafts . Political reasons led to his dismissal from civil service in 1933. From 1941 to 1943 he was a professor at the Cracow State School of Applied Arts . After the end of the Second World War and his escape, he settled in Wiesbaden. In 1949 he designed the Goethe plaque for the Hessian Ministry of Science and Art .

Bednorz, Robert . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p. 153 .
Carl Emde: Prof. Robert Bednorz. Visit to Wiesbaden studios. In: Wiesbadener Leben , 13th year 1964, No. 9, p. 5.
Ulrich Gertz: Robert Bednorz. Delp, Munich 1972.

^ Artificial stone work at the exhibition of the century in Wroclaw. In: Tonindustrie-Zeitung , 37th year 1913, No. 96 (from August 16, 1913), p. 1243 f.

personal data
SURNAME	Bednorz, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sculptor and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	May 18, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pilzendorf, Upper Silesia (today Zabrze, Poland)
DATE OF DEATH	April 6, 1973
Place of death	Wiesbaden