Siegfried Prütz

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Siegfried Prütz (born April 21, 1900 ; † May 7, 1939 ) was a German blacksmith , painter, co-founder of the Gildenhall arts and crafts cooperative near Neuruppin and professor at the Hanover School of Arts and Crafts .

Live and act

At the age of 23 Siegfried Prütz was a co-founder of the Gildenhall arts and crafts association. The global economic crisis ended the historic Gildenhall project in 1929. In the same year he became professor for metal design at the Hanover School of Applied Arts.

The lions by Arno Breker at the lion bastion on the Maschsee, the Prütz railing visible in the middle distance

His public ironwork includes the bastion railing with playful motifs on the so-called lion bastion on the Maschsee in Hanover, which was built around 1934 to 1936. It is in contrast to the lion sculptures by Arno Breker , which were erected in 1938. The forging by Prütz enjoyed a high reputation, especially among the rulers of National Socialism , which resulted in numerous state and municipal orders.

When Siegfried Prütz died at the age of 39, he left his family an inheritance that consisted of numerous forgings and many working drafts. In 2005 his wife's estate contained previously unknown small-format pictures, some only slightly larger than 10 × 10 centimeters, colored with pastel chalk and some drawn on greaseproof paper, as financial possibilities were limited at the time. Siegfried Prütz drew motifs from nature; they are similar in style to the blacksmith's objects. In some pictures Prütz has modeled the migration of plovers from their winter quarters in Africa to the tundra. His son Jobst-Hinrich Prütz suspects that Bengt Berg , a pioneer of animal photography, inspired his father. Berg's book, Der Zug der Regenpfeifer , published in German in 1925, inspired his parents and himself.

In September 2010, the book with the title It says, the bumblebee can't fly was presented at the Kulturbahnhof in Neuenkirchen-Vörden with pictures by Siegfried Prütz and texts by his son. His original pictures were also on view in the Kulturbahnhof.

Fonts

  • Development through laypersons , published by the German Labor Front, Nazi community “ Strength through Joy ”, Jänecke, Hanover, 1938.

literature

  • They say the bumblebee cannot fly. Pictures & poems . Pictures by Siegried Prütz, texts by Jobst-Hinrich Prütz. edition Moby, Neuenkirchen-Vörden 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-030982-3
  • Kristina Bake: The Gildenhall open-air settlement. Crafts, life reform, social utopia . European university publications, art history, vol. 384, Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 2001
  • Hellmut Mebes: Siegfried Prütz, the master blacksmith and skilled craftsman . Ulrich Riemerschmidt, Berlin 1940

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Siegfried Prütz , www.alsatica.eu, accessed 25 September 2011
  2. ↑ See web link schmiedeschatz.de
  3. ↑ The Maschsee approx. 70 years ago , www.myheimat.de, illustration of the railing and the lions, accessed on September 26, 2011
  4. ↑ Alfred Rosenberg (Ed.): National Socialist Monthly Issues , Volume 13, Issue 1, Zentralverlag der NSDAP, Berlin, 1942, p. 332.
personal data
SURNAME Prütz, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German blacksmith, professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1900
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1939