Robert Graessle

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War memorial in Flein
Grape fountain at Uhlandplatz in Heilbronn

Robert Graessle , occasionally also Robert Graessle or Robert Graeßle , (born January 19, 1887 , † March 1964 in Heilbronn ) was a German stonemason and sculptor. He worked mainly in Heilbronn.

Life

Grässle completed his training as a wood sculptor and expanded his field of work to include stone sculptures. He then trained as a modeller in Munich and then studied at the Stuttgart School of Applied Arts . From 1911 he worked as a freelance sculptor in Heilbronn and first had a studio at Fleiner Strasse 9 and then at Wollhausstrasse 127/1. Grässle was a founding member of the Heilbronn Artists' Association and became an honorary member in 1962.

Works (selection)

Grässle was involved in the creation of numerous tombs and monuments in Heilbronn and the surrounding area, including the war memorial in Flein, the memorial in Untergruppenbach (Crailsheimer Muschelkalk, 1927) and the war memorial in Obereisesheim . He also made the grape fountain based on a design by Maria Fitzen-Wohnsiedler , which stood on Uhlandplatz in Heilbronn until the redesign in spring 2016.

He also made numerous copies and replicas of works in Heilbronn, including a replica of the wayside shrine on Armsündersteige from 1514 and a gargoyle on the tower of Kilian's Church as well as two masked heads, which he recreated for the Old Theater based on old models. After a restoration by the Talheimer stonemason Thomas Rücker in September 2012, they were placed on the terrace of the Heilbronn city theater next to the original masked heads of Karl Gimmi .

Several works are now in the House of City History in the Heilbronn City Archives , including the bozzetto for the nail figure "Eisenhart" based on a design by Josef Michael Lock and a copy of a sculpture group of the Annunciation from the Heilbronn Klarakloster .

Web links

Commons : Robert Grässle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on Grässle in the Heilbronn City Archives
  2. ↑ Flyer Historical Views - 900 Years of Untergruppenbach (PDF; 755 kB)
  3. ↑ Norbert Jung: 1914 - Albert Volk - War Memorials - 2014 , Heilbronn 2014, ISBN 978-3-934096-39-4 , p. 13.
  4. ↑ Gertrud Schubert: Ade grape eaters. The Uhlandplatz is being rebuilt. The parking spaces and the fountain figure disappear. In: Heilbronn voice . March 29, 2016 ( from Stimme.de [accessed on March 29, 2016]).
  5. ↑ Entry in B035-125 about the reconstruction of the two mask heads at the Old Theater . in the HEUSS database
  6. ↑ Silke Zschäckel: Mask heads are in their place , September 18, 2012 theater-heilbronn.de
  7. ↑ Mask heads greet the audience again , October 1, 2012 theater-Heilbronn.de
  8. ↑ Data from the Heilbronn city archive, contemporary history collection, signature ZS-6801, entry on the Bozzetto, made by Robert Grässle in the HEUSS database
  9. ^ The group of figures "Annunciation" in the Heilbronn city archive
personal data
SURNAME Graessle, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gräßle, Robert; Graessle, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German stonemason and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1887
DATE OF DEATH March 1964
Place of death Heilbronn