Rudolf Christian Baisch

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The Defenseless One (dt .: The defenseless ), before 1990, cast bronze, on stone base; owned by the city of Glenrothes in Scotland ; in the Riverside Park; a gift from the twin town Böblingen in 1991.

Rudolf Christian Baisch , also Rudolf C. Baisch (born October 20, 1903 in Böblingen , † December 14, 1990 in Mettmann ) was a German sculptor , poet and painter.

Live and act

Rudolf Christian Baisch actually wanted to become an aviator and in 1918 became a student at the Böblinger Fliegerwerft. In the economically difficult years after the First World War, however, he was unable to realize his professional dream and then became a dentist , which was then possible with a two-year technical college education. Baisch soon specialized in the field of ceramic processes.

Initially stimulated by material-technical questions, he began studying sculpture at the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 1937 . Baisch was mainly a student of the sculptors and art professors Edwin Scharff , Alexander Zschokke and Josef Mages .

After 1945 Baisch worked as a freelance artist. The Second World War and, above all, the bombing raids were a traumatic experience for him; they left him with the feeling of a “broken world”. He turned to the healthy creature and thus to animal sculpture , which, in addition to portraits, became his main subject. Since the 1950s he has carried out numerous commissions for public spaces and designed, among other things, animal sculptures and fountains for parks, congress halls and government institutions in Böblingen, Bonn, Düsseldorf, Duisburg and Mönchengladbach. His sculptures were also set up in several schools, and his animal figures were in demand as "artistic jewelry".

Rudolf Christian Baisch: Bär , 1976
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Baisch also made a number of animal figures as small sculptures. The mostly rounded and smoothed forms of these small sculptures tempted to touch and "touch", similar to Japanese netsuke figures.

His small tactile animal figures were also known as " flatterers " and had their own circle of lovers.

He always created harmonizing forms; stylistically, Baisch belonged to the abstract realism of the 1930s. The pioneers of this style include artists such as Hermann Blumenthal and Gerhard Marcks . A close observation of nature and the expression of an inner conception, an "ethical attitude" of the artist enter into a synthesis . As a material for his sculptures, Baisch mostly used bronze , but sometimes also plaster . He created his small sculptures as bronze casts , their number was limited to 10 copies.

Artistically he was mainly active as a sculptor, he also created drawings and graphics and painted a number of pictures , such as some small-format works in tempera . He also wrote poems and aphorisms , some of which he published.

Baisch was active in the Düsseldorf art scene in the post-war period and into the 1970s and was a member of the circle of friends of the composer Theo Kreiten (1887–1960) and his wife, the mezzo-soprano and chamber singer Emmy Kreiten-Barido (1894–1985). Baisch often took part in the house concerts of the musical Kreiten couple, which at that time were considered a center of the musical society in their adopted home in Düsseldorf.

Rudolf Christian Baisch: Karlrobert Kreiten , around 1945
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Around 1935, his daughter Rosemarie Sofie Kreiten (1918–1975) sat for him as a model for a bust that is now in the possession of her descendants.

The son Karlrobert Kreiten (1916–1943), a highly talented and very successful pianist from an early age, was convicted by the National Socialists for undermining military strength after a denunciation and hanged in Berlin-Plötzensee in 1943 ; a memorial bust created later by Baisch is now in the Düsseldorf City Museum .

Baisch lived and worked in Mettmann near Düsseldorf, but always remained connected to his hometown Böblingen. Fourteen of his works were exhibited there between 1955 and 1984. In 1980 he donated the sculpture Die Sinnende , created in 1975 , to the Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg and at the same time had a copy set up in his hometown of Böblingen. The Sinnende was one of Baisch's last monumental works.

Honors

  • 1984: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • In honor of the artist, two streets in Böblingen were named after him.

Works (selection)

Sculptures

  • Guanaco , 1948, small sculpture
  • Tortoise , 1971, small sculpture, cast bronze with dark brown patina, height 7.5 cm, width 12.5 cm
  • Bär , 1976, small sculpture, cast bronze with golden brown patina, H. 9.3 cm, width 12.2 cm, D. 7.5 cm (annual gift of the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf; 100 copies; with the artist's signature Baisch)
  • Standing hippopotamus , not dated, small sculpture

Sculptures in public collections

  • Karlrobert Kreiten , sculpture ( bust ), tinted plaster, City Museum, Düsseldorf
  • Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum , Hagen
  • The defenseless (english The Defenseless One ), bronze statue cast in stone plinth, at Riverside Park from Glenrothes , Scotland . The statue was donated to the citizens of Glenrothes in 1991 on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the partnership by the German twin town Böblingen.

photos

  • Evolution , tempera, 23.5 x 16.5 cm, signed lower center with the initials RCB, framed and verso called

Signatures

  • Baisch usually signed his small sculptures on the underside with: RC Baisch
  • Baisch also used the initials as a signature in his pictures: R. C. B.

Books

  • We gave the lyre to the birds . Hornung, Düsseldorf 1975, without ISBN. (Font: Walter Sauer)
  • Between the star and the sea. Poems . Hornung, Düsseldorf 1981, without ISBN. (Font: Walter Sauer)
  • Rudolf Christian Baisch. Vol. 3., Aphorisms . Aurel Bongers, Recklinghausen 1980, ISBN 3-7647-0418-7 .

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

  • 1972: Rudolf Christian Baisch - sculptures, drawings, graphics. 1938–1972 , Kunsthalle Düsseldorf , Düsseldorf

Group exhibitions

literature

  • Düsseldorf city libraries (ed.): Rudolf Christian Baisch, Gerd Vielhaber . City libraries, Düsseldorf 1973 (= documentation from Düsseldorf authors; 36), without ISBN.
  • Painting gallery Abels: Rudolf Christian Baisch. Painting Gallery Abels, Cologne, from Nov. 3 - Dec. 15, 1973 . Painting gallery Abels, Cologne 1973, without ISBN. (Exhibition catalog)
  • Yvonne Friedrich: Rudolf Christian Baisch. Vol. 1., The Sculptor . Aurel Bongers, Recklinghausen 1980, ISBN 3-7647-0331-8 .
  • Yvonne Friedrich: Rudolf Christian Baisch. Vol. 2., The Painter . Aurel Bongers, Recklinghausen 1980, ISBN 3-7647-0343-1 .
  • Cultural Office d. City of Düsseldorf (ed.): Rudolf Christian Baisch. Painting. Städtische Kellergalerie Düsseldorf, October 27 - November 21, 1982 . Kulturamt, Düsseldorf 1982, without ISBN. (Exhibition catalog)

Web links

Commons : Rudolf Christian Baisch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Escape into the representation of the undamaged creature. Animal sculptures by Rudolf Christian Baisch  ( 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. , Article by Ursula Peters in Kulturgut , III. Quarter 2005, issue 6, p. 10; published by the Germanisches Nationalmuseum , Nuremberg ( PDF file; 369 kB; last accessed: May 2, 2009).@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / forschung.gnm.de  
  2. ↑ Web project: In memory of Karlrobert Kreiten (last accessed: May 2, 2009).
  3. ↑ a b Collection 1902–1945 >> Karlrobert Kreiten , information and illustration of the memorial bust on the website of the city of Düsseldorf (last accessed: May 2, 2009).
  4. ↑ Viewpoints along the way. Die Sinnende ( Memento of the original from April 23, 2010 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. , Report about Rudolf Christian Baisch on the website of the Freundeskreis Historisches Homberg e. V. (last call: May 2, 2009). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.historisches-homberg.de
  5. ↑ Glenrothes ( Memento of the original from July 30, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Information report on the website of the city of Böblingen (last accessed: May 2, 2009). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.boeblingen.kdrs.de
personal data
SURNAME Baisch, Rudolf Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baisch, Rudolf C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor, poet and painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Boeblingen
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1990
Place of death Mettmann