Rudolf Wittig

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Rudolf Wittig (born October 10, 1900 in Warnsdorf , † August 26, 1978 in Dresden ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Ölberg relief, St. Anne's Church, Annaberg-Buchholz 1932
Relief Life on Buildings , Dresden 1954
Relief Ratschaisträger hands over a love letter , Dresden 1955

Wittig initially completed an apprenticeship as a stone sculptor, wood carver and glass painter and worked as a glass painter in Haida . From 1919 he studied at the Dresden School of Applied Arts under Karl Groß and from 1924 to 1927 at the Dresden Art Academy under Karl Albiker .

From 1929 he worked as a freelance sculptor. In addition to smaller works of art, which are in the possession of the Dresden City Museum , among other things , Wittig mainly created architectural sculptures . For the west portal of St. Anne's Church in Annaberg-Buchholz , an oil mountain relief was created in 1932. Wittig worked before 1932 at the architectural sculpture at the water tower Klotzsche which the dancer Marianne Vogelsang as kneeling shows. In the course of the renovation of the tower, the building sculpture was set up separately in front of the water tower in 2004.

After the end of the Second World War , Rudolf Wittig was mainly active in Dresden. In 1947 he was one of the founding members of the Dresden artist group Das Ufer and worked for many years at the Zwingerbauhütte , which restored the Dresden Zwinger . As part of the reconstruction of the city, Wittig was also one of the sculptors who were involved in the artistic redesign of the Altmarkt , so he created a relief at Café Prague . In 1958, together with Max Lachnit , he was commissioned to design the Löwen-Apotheke on Wilsdruffer Straße . Wittig's design provided for a "protruding flag made of tinplate", which was rejected by the jury in favor of Max Lachnit's lion design. Other works include reliefs for a building of the TH Dresden and the New Town Hall .

In 1969, Hans Theo Richter created the portrait drawings Kopf by the sculptor Rudolf Wittig ; there is evidence of two works in chalk and ink.

Works (selection)

  • Fountain and reliefs at the savings bank and school in Neusalz on the Oder
  • before 1932: woman with goat , tinted plaster
  • before 1932: Study of the sculpture of the knee - the dancer Marianne Vogelsang , tinted plaster
  • around 1932: standing , wood
  • 1932: red buffalo , bronze
  • 1932: Ölberg relief, west portal of St. Anne's Church in Annaberg-Buchholz
  • 1935: Relief on the knee - the dancer Marianne Vogelsang at the Klotzsche water tower
  • 1950s: Bust of Hermann Ilgen , in front of the Wurzen town hall
  • 1951: Folk dance group , plaster for metal casting, shown at the 3rd  German Art Exhibition in Dresden, Albertinum
  • 1953: Bronze sculpture Young Farmer's Woman (with goat) , shown in March 1953 at the 3rd German Art Exhibition in Dresden in the Albertinum
  • 1954: Sandstone relief on the subject of life on the building site on the bay window of the student dormitory “Prof. Dr. Fetscher ” in Dresden
  • 1955: Relief Ratschaisträger hands over a love letter , arcades of Café Prag , Dresden
  • 1957: Elementary phenomena of physics , bas-reliefs at entrance D of the Physics Institute of the TH Dresden
  • 1962/65: Coats of arms of the twin cities, west wing of the New Town Hall , Dresden

literature

  • Wittig, Rudolf . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 5 : V-Z. Supplements: A-G . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1961, p. 155 .
  • Rudolf Wittig . In: Joachim Uhlitzsch: Art on the move, Dresden 1918–1933 . Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden 1980, pp. 332–333.
  • Wittig, Rudolf . In: Dietmar Eisold : Artists in the GDR . New Life Publishing House, Berlin 2010, p. 1038.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Simone Simpson: Between cultural mandate and artistic autonomy: Dresden sculptures from the 1950s and 1960s . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne and Weimar 2008, p. 152.
  2. ↑ Wittig, Rudolf . In: Hans Vollmer: General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century . Volume 5. EA Seemann, Leipzig 1961, p. 155.
  3. ↑ a b Rudolf Wittig . In: Joachim Uhlitzsch : Art on the move, Dresden 1918–1933 . Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden 1980, p. 333.
  4. ↑ Water tower Klotzsche on das-neue-dresden.de.
  5. ↑ Petra Jacob: Collectivization of Imagination ?: Artist groups in the GDR between appropriation and inventiveness . transcript Verlag, 2007, p. 128.
  6. ^ Simone Simpson: Between cultural mandate and artistic autonomy: Dresden sculptures from the 1950s and 1960s . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne and Weimar 2008, p. 157.
  7. ^ Forerunners: 25 artists from the GDR . Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1976, p. 473.
  8. ↑ Wittig, Rudolf . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 5 : V-Z. Supplements: A-G . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1961, p. 155 .
  9. ↑ Barbara Bechter (arrangement): Georg Dehio - Handbook of German Art Monuments: Saxony II . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1998, p. 10.
  10. ^ Bronze bust of Ilgen . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , December 8, 1997, p. 1.
  11. ^ Walter May, Werner Pampel, Hans Konrad: Architectural Guide GDR, Dresden District . VEB Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1979, p. 23.
  12. ^ Walter May, Werner Pampel, Hans Konrad: Architectural Guide GDR, Dresden District . VEB Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1979, p. 24.
  13. ^ Georg Dehio - Handbook of German Art Monuments: Dresden (special volume) . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2005, p. 70.
personal data
SURNAME Wittig, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Warnsdorf
DATE OF DEATH August 26, 1978
Place of death Dresden