Rudolf Heltzel

Rudolf Heltzel (born January 14, 1907 in Habstein , Bohemia , † June 10, 2005 in Berlin ) was a German painter and sculptor .

Life

Rudolf Heltzel was the son of an Austro-Hungarian railway official and was born in Bohemia . At the age of four he moved with his mother to Berlin, where at the age of twelve he sketched through Kreuzberg , the Treptower Wiesen and the Grunewald .

During the Second World War he took part in the Russian campaign as a soldier and drew the Russian landscapes and cities on behalf of the Wehrmacht . As an opponent of National Socialism , he was close friends with active resistance fighters .

After 1945 he first set up his studio in Berlin-Neukölln . A little later he moved to Berlin-Schöneberg . His studio at Kolonnenstrasse 38 became a meeting point for people from culture, politics, church and business during his work. Heltzel remained creative until old age. The last lifetime at the side of his wife Ingrid Heltzel-Schwombeck was filmed and processed in the documentary The beloved life . Heltzel was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon.

Grave of Rudolf Heltzel in the Heerstrasse cemetery in Berlin-Westend

Rudolf Heltzel died in Berlin in June 2005 at the age of 98. His grave is on the state's own cemetery in Heerstraße in Berlin-Westend (grave location: 4-A-51). The grave crucifix is a work of the artist.

plant

Heltzel became famous for his landscape watercolors . As a “painting Fontane ” he walked in the footsteps of the Mark poet and chronicler, drawing . As a sculptor, he mainly created the ways of the cross , nativity scenes and figures of saints . His most famous sacred works include the Madonna in the protective cloak in the chapel of the Christian-Schreiber-Haus in Alt-Buchhorst , which has been the destination of opposition pilgrimages since 1937 during the reign of National Socialism and in the GDR , as well as the crib of the Charlottenburg church Maria Regina Martyrum , whose figures bear the portraits of resistance fighters.

literature

Wolfgang Schulz (arrangement), Rudolf Heltzel: watercolors from seven decades . Exhibition catalog Deutschlandhaus, Berlin 1993.
Being a stranger in Germany. A film made by young people . Book accompanying the film, Stuttgart et al. 1996.
Maria Dunkel (Ed.): Rudolf Heltzel. Living landscape - five decades of the Kolonnenstrasse studio . Berlin 2005.
Bernd Juds : Rudolf Heltzel. Sacred sculptor and "painting fontane" . In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt . Volume 99, Issue 9, 2002, p. A 581.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ District Office Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf of Berlin: Prominent graves in the state-owned cemetery Heerstrasse . Notice in the cemetery. As of November 2012. Read on December 3, 2019.

personal data
SURNAME	Heltzel, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	January 14, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH	Habstein
DATE OF DEATH	June 10, 2005
Place of death	Berlin

[1] District Office Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf of Berlin: Prominent graves in the state-owned cemetery Heerstrasse . Notice in the cemetery. As of November 2012. Read on December 3, 2019.