Rudolf Dietelbach

Rudolf Dietelbach's studio opposite the Pragfriedhof in Stuttgart, 2018.

Rudolf Dietelbach (born December 22, 1847 in Stuttgart , † September 25, 1917 in Stuttgart) was a German sculptor in Stuttgart who created portrait busts and portrait medallions in marble and bronze.

Life

Rudolf Alexander Dietelbach was born on December 22, 1847 in Stuttgart. His father was the medalist and court engraver Gottlob August Dietelbach (1806-1870), his mother was Caroline Rapp († 1877). Dietelbach took part in the Franco-German War in 1870/1871 as captain of the Royal Württemberg Landwehr . Until 1873 he studied under the sculptor Theodor von Wagner at the Stuttgart Art School, together with the sculptors Theodor Bausch , Adolf Fremd , Albert Gäckle and Georg Rheineck . He then continued his education in Berlin and on trips abroad to Paris, London and Italy.

From 1874 Dietelbach lived and worked in Stuttgart, first in various rented apartments, from 1880 in his own house at Bahnhofstrasse 12, where he set up his “studio for grave monuments” conveniently close to the Prague cemetery. After 1910 he built another house as a retirement home at Kornbergstrasse 37, which was located outside the city center at half height in the then quiet west of Stuttgart.

Grave of Rudolf Dietelbach in the Pragfriedhof in Stuttgart.

He specialized in portrait busts and portrait medallions of mostly Württemberg personalities as well as grave reliefs in marble and bronze, including a bronze relief of the poet Eduard Mörike , a marble relief of the doctor and medical researcher Robert von Mayer and a marble relief of the lawyer Wilhelm Ganzhorn .

family

Dietelbach was married to Sara Gaby (1850-1894) for the first time. After her death, he erected a family grave in the Prague cemetery with the bronze portrait relief of his wife, which he had created in 1882, the year his daughter was born. The daughter Fanny Laggai (1882-1958) emerged from the marriage and was also buried in the family grave with her husband Friedrich Laggai. Dietelbach married Mathilde Beißwänger in his second marriage. He died at the age of almost 70 on September 25, 1917 in Stuttgart. His second wife survived him, she died after 1920.

List of works

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image	year	place	Location	object
	1877	Berlin	Cemetery III of the Jerusalem and New Church Congregation in front of Hallesches Tor	Marble medallion relief of the actor Friedrich Haase , grave in the cemetery III of the Jerusalem and New Church Congregation in front of the Hallesches Tor in Berlin. → Photo of the grave .
	1877	Unknown		Bronze bust of Duke Wilhelm Eugen von Württemberg , casting: Wilhelm Pelargus . Should be set up in the park of Villa Berg. Whereabouts unknown. Literature: Kunstchronik, Volume 12, 1877, Column 614, pdf .
	1877	Heilbronn	Old graveyard	Marble medallion relief of the doctor and medical researcher Robert von Mayer , grave in the old cemetery Heilbronn. Literature: Kunstchronik, Volume 14, 1879, Column 43, pdf .
	1877	Stuttgart	Prague cemetery	Bronze medallion relief of the poet Eduard Mörike , grave at the Pragfriedhof Stuttgart, section 10. Literature: Kunstchronik, Volume 12, 1877, column 691, pdf .
	1880	Tübingen	Tübingen city cemetery	Bronze medallion relief with the portrait of the lawyer Christian Reinhold Köstlin and his wife, the singer and song composer Josephine Caroline Lang , grave at the Stadtfriedhof Tübingen, Department D VI / 15. Literature: #Hornbogen 1995 , page 92, 93. → Photos of the grave .
	1880	Tübingen	Tübingen city cemetery	Bronze medallion relief with the portrait of the theologian Johann Tobias Beck , grave in the Tübingen city cemetery, Department M VI / 16. → Photo of the grave .
	1880	Stuttgart	Uff churchyard	Marble medallion relief with the portrait of the lawyer Wilhelm Ganzhorn , who created the song “In the most beautiful meadow area”, grave in the Uff-Kirchhof Stuttgart, department 8. → Photo of the grave .

Honors

• Order of Frederick 1st class.
• Silver commemorative medal for the 25th anniversary of King Karl's reign , 1889.

literature

• Willy Oskar Dressler: Dressler's art yearbook: a reference book for German fine and applied arts. Volume 7. Rostock, Verlag von Dressler's Art Yearbook, 1913, page 595.
• Helmut Hornbogen: The Tübingen city cemetery: paths through the garden of remembrance. Tübingen: Verlag Schwäbisches Tagblatt, 1995, pages 75-76, 92, 93.
• Hermann Alexander Müller: Biographical Artist Lexicon. Leipzig 1882, page 136, pdf .
• Susanna Partsch: Dietelbach, Gottlob August . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 27, Saur, Munich a. a. 2000, ISBN 3-598-22767-1 , p. 283.
• Hans-Ulrich Simon: Mörike in portraits of his time: an iconography. Stuttgart: Hohenheim-Verlag, 2004, pages 129-130 (Mörike's death mask).
• Dietelbach, Rudolf . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 9 : Delaulne-Dubois . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1913, p. 253 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Dietelbach, Gottlob August . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 9 : Delaulne-Dubois . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1913, p. 253 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Dankmar Trier: Dietelbach, Rudolf . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 27, Saur, Munich a. a. 2000, ISBN 3-598-22767-1 , p. 283.

Footnotes

1. ↑ Grave inscription: "KW Hauptmann d. L. a. D. ".
2. ↑ #Partsch 2000 , # Thieme-Becker 1913.2 .
3. ^ Stuttgart address books 1874–1920.
4. ↑ #Partsch 2000 , # Thieme-Becker 1913.2 .
5. ↑ #Dressler 1913 .

Web links

Commons : Rudolf Dietelbach  - Collection of Images