Ulrich Kottenrodt

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Ulrich Kottenrodt (born July 7, 1906 in Hermsdorf in the Mark near Berlin; † July 31, 1984 in St. Märgen ) was a German sculptor .

Life

He was born as Ulrich Kotzde and son of the ethnic writer Wilhelm Kotzde , who called himself Wilhelm Kotzde-Kottenrodt from 1932 . When Ulrich was twelve years old, the family moved from the province of Brandenburg to the Kirchzarten district of Neuhäuser and from 1921 lived in a house on Steinhalde in Ebnet . He learned the stonemasonry after school in the building works of the Freiburg Minster . He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna from 1925 to 1927 with a focus on anatomy, style and perspective. He had previously created six groups of fairy tales for the Ebneter Villa Mez from musch limestone .

Figure on the Löffinger Hexenbrunnen

In 1928 he entered - at the same time with his brother Wilhelm (1904–1981) - in the register of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , where he took part in Karl Killer's sculpture class until 1932 . In 1932 he moved to the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin. There he worked in the master workshop under Hugo Lederer and had his own master workshop. From 1935 he worked independently in a municipal studio in Freiburg, then in an extension to his house on the Steinhalde. From 1963 he worked in Ebnet. From the sale of the Ebneter house in 1971 until his death in 1984, Kottenrodt lived in St. Märgen. The last work he created was the witch from the Löffinger Hexenbrunnen in the studio of his house.

Kottenrodt was a respected and busy artist with the National Socialists . For the main portal of the Freiburg Clinic, he worked on the figure group The Age of Life and created the maiden and the old man . The sculpture Die Mütterliche in the former orphanage on Handelstrasse in Freiburg was praised in the contemporary press as "[...] sprung from the beautiful German race ideal". After the city of Freiburg tried very hard to get artistically valuable representations of Adolf Hitler in 1936 , Kottenrodt offered a bust of Hitler because he was afraid of losing his studio, which was already owned by the city of Freiburg. But the bust did not appeal: Mayor Karl Hofner complained that Kottenrodt's proposal did not correspond to the ideas that one had of the “strong personality of the Führer”. In November 1937, however, the city finally bought another sculpture from him for the youth reading room of the public library, depicting the head of a soldier from the First World War. For the Hindenburg-Gymnasium (today: Parler-Gymnasium) in Schwäbisch Gmünd , he created a relief between 1943 and 1945 that depicts a soldier next to a Hitler Youth, both armed with rifles, thus serving the popular Nazi heroic ideal of warriors. For the school (today: Peace School) in Villingen-Schwenningen , which was then named after NSDAP Gauleiter Hans Schemm , he designed the fountain sculpture Girl with Swan . He made a Germanic equestrian figure with helmet and sword for the propaganda exhibition “German Greatness” in Strasbourg, which was occupied by the National Socialists.

In 1955 he created the sculpture "Mädchen mit Füllen" for List-Platz in Reutlingen, as well as numerous other sculptures in public spaces. As the last major work, Kottenrodt created the 1.70 meter high fountain figure Witch for the witch fountain in Löffingen in 1975 .

In 1952 he exhibited together with Alfred Hagenlocher and Edmund Steppes in the Reutlinger Spendhaus and in 1975/76 in the Freiburg art salon Staetz.

Works

Jungfrau at the University Medical Center Freiburg (1938/39)
  • six fairy tale groups in the park of Villa Mez in Freiburg-Ebnet (1925)
  • Maternal woman with two children at the entrance to the Handelstrasse dormitory, the former railway orphanage (1934)
  • Larger-than-life stone sculptures Maid (Jungfrau) and old man at the University Medical Center Freiburg
  • Foals in the courtyard of the widow and orphan fund Freiburg ⊙
  • Pleading hospital Villingen-Schwenningen (patient gardens in the new building)
  • Girl with Filling List-Platz, in front of the Reutlingen train station (1955), plaster cast in the St. Märgen town hall
  • Foal Mooswaldschule Freiburg, plaster cast in the town hall of St. Märgen.
  • Dolphin at the Center for Psychiatry, Emmendingen
  • Playing bears at the Tullaschule Freiburg
  • Knower at the Mundenhof in Freiburg (after 1945)
  • Witch at the witch's fountain in Löffingen (1975)

literature

  • Primitive Germans. Bronze sculptures by Ulrich Kottenrodt. In: Karl Peppler (ed.): The German people. Its essence - its classes. Vol. 14. Stubenrauch, Berlin 1940, plate 5 b.
  • Karl Schwarz: Ulrich Kottenrodt, a sculptor of our time. In: Strasbourg monthly books. 5, 1941, pp. 183-186.
  • Walburga Herbst: A visit to our friend, the sculptor Ulrich Kottenrodt . In: Badische Heimat 58, 1978, pp. 101-108.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Adolf J. Schmid : Ebnet im Dreisamtal. Schillinger, Freiburg 1999, ISBN 3-89155-247-7 , pp. 237-274, (excerpts) , accessed on December 16, 2011
  2. ↑ Register book of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich (facsimile)
  3. ^ Michael Klant (ed.): Sculpture in Freiburg, 20th century art in public space. mondo, Freiburg im Breisgau 1998, ISBN 3-922675-76-X .
  4. ↑ Quotations in: StadtAF, C4 / VII / 6/5. Kottenrodt didn't want to sell this bust for cash, but use the proceeds to settle his rent arrears. His studio was owned by the city and at that time he owed 300 RM.
  5. ^ Illustration of the Hitler bust and reference in: Zeitschrift des Breisgau-Geschichtsverein Schauinsland , 127, 2008, p. 122 ff.
  6. ↑ Ute Scherb: Hoping for the big order: Freiburg artists under National Socialism. In: Journal of the Breisgau history association "Schau-ins-Land" 127th annual issue 2008, p. 124
  7. ↑ ostalb-online.de The history of Parler-Gymnasium (with picture) Access December 16, 2011
  8. ↑ Villingen-Schwenningen City Archives (PDF)
  9. ↑ A look into the past, DIE NECKARQUELLE, Saturday, December 24, 2016
  10. ^ Jean-Pierre Legendre, Bernadette Schnitzler, Isabelle Bardiès: Important propaganda exhibitions in Alsace and in the Moselle department. In: Hans Peter Kuhnen: Propaganda, Power, History. Archeology on the Rhine and Moselle in the service of National Socialism , Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier, 2002, pages 81–92
  11. ^ Dina Sonntag: Reorganizations - Southwest German Museums in the Post-War Period , State Office for Museum Care Baden-Württemberg, Silberburg-Verlag, 2002 ISBN 978-3-87407503-9 , p. 185.
  12. ^ Website of the city of Reutlingen
  13. ↑ Internet site of the Löffingen witch group
  14. ↑ a b Silvia Groß: Ulrich Kottenrodt. The non-existent mother in: Michael Klant (Hrsg.): Skulptur in Freiburg: Art of the 20th Century in Public Space , modo Verlag, Freiburg 1998, ISBN 3-922675-76-X , p. 51.

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personal data
SURNAME Kottenrodt, Ulrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kotzde, Ulrich (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Hermsdorf in der Mark (today: Berlin-Hermsdorf )
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 1984
Place of death St. Märgen