Walter Sebastian Resch

Botanical Institute, south side, door by the Iris Garden, figure of Flora by Walter Sebastian Resch (1913)

Walter Sebastian Resch (born April 29, 1889 in Munich ; † April 1, 1962 there ) was a German sculptor .

Resch was a pupil of G. Busch (1903–1907), H. Jobst (1908), Karl Killer (1909–1911), Max Heilmaier (1911–1912) and Fritz Behn , where he received his artistic training exclusively in private studios. From 1912 he worked as a freelance sculptor. He belonged to the trade association of visual artists in Munich and the artists' association of sculptors in Bavaria. For a time he was managing director and board member of the Munich Feldgrau Künstlerbund.

His works include a bronze crucifixion group in the Trier municipal cemetery , half-length figures of St. Joseph and the Sacred Heart of Jesus for the Catholic Church in Ehingen, and the Sacred Heart of Jesus figure, St. Jakobus and Modoaldus for the Church of the United Hospices in Trier. He created a number of war memorials (including Wallerstein , Trier , Waging , Uffing ) as well as architectural sculptures . This includes his first major order, a window rosette for the house chapel of the "Central Institute for Cripples" in Harlaching . Further examples are four limestone figures in the jewelry courtyard of the Kurhaus Kissingen and the figures on the southern facade of the Botanical Institute of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich-Nymphenburg, built between 1911 and 1914.

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Langenberger, S. 1916. The new botanical garden in Munich-Nymphenburg . In: Der Baumeister, monthly books for architecture and building practice 14: 74–79. Georg DW Callwey, Munich.
Archive holdings in the Bavarian State Archives for construction in the Munich State Archives (Schönfeldstrasse)
1913 March, papers in the archive holdings for the construction of the Botanical Institute in the Munich State Archives. Cost estimate Resch, 1913 March 8, about "two versions of a flora figure, as a crowning of the portal on the round tower in shell limestone - version 2 pieces incl., Stone material and stone carving on the back wall, however without moving 585, - [Mark]"

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Individual evidence

^ Sabine Klotz: Fritz Landauer (1883–1968). Life and work of a Jewish architect. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2001, p. 246.
↑ Resch, Walter Sebastian . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 28 : Ramsden-Rosa . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1934, p. 181 .

personal data
SURNAME	Resch, Walter Sebastian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	April 29, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH	Munich
DATE OF DEATH	April 1, 1962
Place of death	Munich

[1] Sabine Klotz: Fritz Landauer (1883–1968). Life and work of a Jewish architect. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2001, p. 246.

[2] Resch, Walter Sebastian . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 28 : Ramsden-Rosa . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1934, p. 181 .