Vittorio Güttner
Vittorio Güttner (born April 24, 1869 in Trieste , Austria-Hungary , † December 5, 1935 in Munich ) was an Austrian - German sculptor , actor and hobby Indianist .
Life
Güttner enrolled in October 1885 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , where he attended Max von Widnmann's class .
Grüttner's focus was on human and animal sculptures. For example, in 1897 he showed portrait busts and bronze statuettes in the Munich Glass Palace . He developed an interest in Indian cultures , was a member of the first German western club ( Cowboy Club Munich ) and collected Indian utensils and costumes, some of which he later sold to Klara May . He modeled including three Indians figures in life size at the opening of the Karl May Museum Radebeul were admired in December 1928: an Apache warriors, an Iroquois - chief and a young Blackfoot -Indianerin. For this he received a fee totaling 1,148 Reichsmarks from Klara May . A year later she commissioned him with busts of the chiefs Red Cloud and Sitting Bull , which are part of the museum's inventory , as well as the painted plaster sculpture “ Prairie Indians grazing mustang ” and a Tlingit chief from 1933. He also created figures for the diorama “Homecoming from Battle”, some of which were completed by his son Bruno Güttner after his death . The figures were painted by Wilhelm Emil "Elk" Eber . In the Karl-May-Haus there is a Winnetou bust that Güttner created shortly before his death .
Around 1920 Güttner played in Western film productions that were made in the Munich area.
Filmography
- 1920: The Railway Robbers (D: Fred Stranz )
- 1921: The vultures of the gold mines (D: Otto Lins-Morstadt )
literature
- Wolfgang Seifert: Patty Frank - the circus, the Indians, the Karl May Museum , Karl May Verlag 1998 .
Web links
- Vittorio Güttner in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Entry in the Karl May Wiki
Individual evidence
- ^ Artists - G , FAUST database excerpt, Letter Foundation .
- ↑ 00159 Vittorio Güttner , Academy of Fine Arts Munich, register book: 1884-1920.
- ^ Güttner, Vittorio; Bulldog , Lot-Tissimo.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Güttner, Vittorio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian-German sculptor, actor and hobby Indianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 24, 1869 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Trieste , Austria-Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 5, 1935 |
| Place of death | Munich |