Rudolf Enderlein
Rudolf Enderlein (born February 21, 1908 in Dresden , † September 10, 1985 in Bautzen ) was a German sculptor .
Life
Rudolf Enderlein spent his childhood and youth in Dresden and from 1915 in Gnaschwitz near Bautzen.
Enderlein began to carve animal sculptures out of wood at an early stage, examples date back to around 1917. However, he initially had to do without turning his artistic talent into a profession. At the request of his parents, he trained as a locksmith from 1922 , and then began an apprenticeship as a wood carver in Bautzen in 1925.
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From 1930 to 1931 Enderlein took lessons at the wood carving school Bad Warmbrunn (Lower Silesia) with Professor Cirillo Dell'Antonio . From 1932 he stayed in Switzerland and from 1933 attended the Basel School of Applied Arts for four semesters . There he was a student of Otto Meier and worked with Beate Gasser, Josef Nauer and Paul Bay. Study trips took him to Paris , England , Holland , Belgium and Italy .
Enderlein returned to Germany in 1935 and since then has worked as a freelance sculptor in Bautzen.
From 1946 he participated in the repair of the war damage, for example in the Ortenburg he restored the stucco ceiling in the audience hall and the Matthias Corvinus monument on the tower . He also made exterior stucco additions to house facades in the old town .
Rudolf Enderlein was married to the jewelry designer Charlotte Unterbeck († 1977) from Leipzig since August 1940. Both were buried in the Protschenberg cemetery in Bautzen.
Works
Rudolf Enderlein created busts, small sculptures and sculptures , especially animal representations, from stone, bronze, plaster cast, wood and clay. Many of his works enrich the street scene in the cities of Bautzen, Görlitz , Hoyerswerda and Berlin, among others .
Selection of works
- Apprentice, 1951 photo on Wikimedia Commons
- The Bremen Town Musicians , 1956 photo
- The convalescent, 1960 photo
- Geese, 1963 photo
- Girl with German Shepherd, 1966 photo
- Jan Arnošt Smoler , 1968 photo
- Acrobats, 1972 photo
Exhibitions (selection)
- 1938: Exhibition at the Kunstverein Dresden
- 1940: Participation in the Great German Art Exhibition in Munich
- 1958: Anniversary exhibition with Marianne Britze in the Museum Bautzen
literature
- General artist lexicon. Volume 33: Bucket - Engehser, Munich [u. a.]: 2002, p. 537
- Bernd Seiffert: Rudolf Enderlein - homage for his 90th birthday, animal sculptures, busts and sculptural drawings . In annual journal 4, 1998, Stadtmuseum Bautzen, p. 50 ff.
- Walter Starke: sculptor Rudolf Enderlein . In: Bautzener Kulturschau, 35th year, November 1985, pp. 4–5
Web links
- Rudolf Enderlein ( memento from September 7, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) in the Biographical Lexicon of Upper Lusatia
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Enderlein, Rudolf |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Enderlein, Rudolph |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 21, 1908 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
DATE OF DEATH | September 10, 1985 |
Place of death | Bautzen |