Rudolf Saudek

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Rudolf Saudek, 63 years old in the Theresienstadt ghetto

Rudolf Saudek (born October 20, 1880 in Kolín , † July 19, 1965 in Prague ) was a Bohemian or Czech sculptor and graphic artist who lived and worked in Germany between 1910 and 1935.

Life

Rudolf Saudek first learned a commercial profession. In 1900 he began his first sculptural work in Paris . After a stay in London , he studied from 1903 to 1906 at the Royal Academy for Graphic Arts and Book Trade in Leipzig . In 1906 Friedrich Nietzsche created a marble bust entitled "Stormwind, You Cloud Hunter". After further studies in Prague and Florence , he settled in Leipzig as a freelance artist in 1910 .

In 1910, Saudek revised Friedrich Nietzsche's death mask, which Curt Stoeving had removed in 1900, at the request of Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, and adapted these ideals.

On behalf of Leipzig publishers, he created busts of Arthur Schopenhauer , Friedrich Nietzsche and Philalethes (pseudonym of King Johann of Saxony as Dante translator) for the German library in 1916 . Busts of Felix Marchand and Hubert Sattler were created for the University of Leipzig . He also worked for the playhouse. The Gewandhaus Leipzig owns a bust of the Leipzig singer Elena Gerhardt .

He made a marble bust by Henrik Ibsen . In the Leipzig Zoo he designed the ornamental Art Nouveau accessories on the front of the aquarium, which was inaugurated in 1910. Etchings for Dante's Divine Comedy are an example of his graphic work .

Rudolf Saudek: marble bust by Arthur Schopenhauer
Rudolf Saudek: marble bust by Arthur Schopenhauer 1916

As a Jew , he was banned from working in 1935 . In 1938 he moved from Leipzig to Prague, where he after the establishment of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in 1942 in the Theresienstadt concentration camp deported was. He was saved from death through artistic commissions from the camp management. In the film “Theresienstadt” he can be seen doing pottery work for a fountain figure.

After 1945 he returned to Prague, where he worked until his death. He was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague .

literature

  • Julius Zeitler: Rudolph Saudek. With 9 illustrations after sculptures by the artist . In: Reclams Universum , 34.1 (1918), pp. 761-764.
  • Horst Riedel: Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z. Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8 , p. 520.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Krause: "Martyrs" and "Prophet". Studies on the Nietzsche cult in the visual arts of the turn of the century . de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1984, ISBN 978-3-11-009818-1 , pp. 256, no. 117 .
  2. ↑ Krause: "Martyrs" and "Prophet" . S. 151 f .
  3. ↑ Hertl, Michael .: The myth of Friedrich Nietzsche and his death masks: optical manifestos of his cult and pictorial quotations in art . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-8260-3633-0 .
  4. ^ Foundations for the German Library. Directory of foundations for the House of the German Library . Poeschel & Trepte (print), Leipzig 1916.
  5. ↑ Böhm, Claudius: Donors wanted. In: Gewandhausmagazin , No. 86 (2015), p. 44.
  6. ↑ Wolf-Eberhard Engelmann: A guide through aquarium and terrarium. Among employees by Hans-K. Remane (planetarium) and Lothar Dudek (tips for aquarium beginners). Zoological Garden, Leipzig 1994, p. 8 .
  7. ↑ Documentary / propaganda film. In: ghetto-theresienstadt. Retrieved April 27, 2015 .
  8. ^ Artists from Bohemia. In: Naumburger Tageblatt. Retrieved April 27, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Saudek, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Saudek, Rudolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bohemian or Czech sculptor and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Kolín
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 1965
Place of death Prague