Wilhelm Kruse

Wilhelm Kruse (born October 22, 1887 in Schwaan , † July 26, 1960 in Berlin-Charlottenburg ) was a German sculptor .

Life

As the son of a carpenter, Wilhelm Kruse gained his first experience in carving with his father at an early age. Around 1903 he completed a four-year apprenticeship as a stonemason , plasterer and wood sculptor in Rostock , followed by several years at the teaching institution of the Berlin Museum of Applied Arts . Kruse practically worked in the studio with Walther Schmarje , who involved him in several of his commissions, especially for building sculptures. In 1911 he worked in Wilhelm Haverkamp 's studio until he finally founded his own studio in Berlin-Friedenau in 1914 . During the First World War Kruse served as a soldier in France, Russia and finally in the Balkans , in Macedonia as the artistic director of the war graves administration. From 1933 to 1945 he worked together with other colleagues in the "House of 40 Artists" in the Berlin studio community in Klosterstrasse , and from 1942 onwards he was their deputy chairman. Little is known about the years after the war, except that he returned to Berlin in the mid-1950s.

plant

Monument to the fallen in Schwaan (1926)

1913: Competition design for a Fritz Reuter monument in Rostock (awarded one of three 2nd prizes at 500 marks, not executed)
1914: "Running Goose"
1922/1923: Building sculpture for the Groß Runow manor in Pomerania
1923: Ida Kruse tomb in Schwaan
1926: Memorial for the fallen of the First World War in Schwaan
around 1934: bust of the mother
around 1934: bust "Schwaaner girls"
1935: Memorial of the province of Pomerania for the fallen of the First World War (called Provincial Memorial )
Relief "self-portrait"
Fountain figure "Puck" (sold in Switzerland )
Majolica "Madonna with Child"
"Christmas relief"

literature

Kruse, Wilhelm . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 22 : Krügner – Leitch . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1928, p. 19 .
Mecklenburg monthly magazines . Volume 10, 1934, panels opposite p. 216, 250 and Volume 11, 1935, p. 431, panel opposite p. 650, p. 651 ff.
Kruse, Wilhelm . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 128 .

Web links

Literature about Wilhelm Kruse in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

^ Short biography Kruse, Wilhelm. In: Ateliergemeinschaft Klosterstrasse - Berlin 1933–1945. Artist in the time of National Socialism. Akademie der Künste (Edition Hentrich), Berlin 1994. ISBN 3-89468-134-9 , p. 224.
↑ Berlin architecture world. 16th year 1913/1914, volume 3 (from June 1913), p. 225 (communication of the competition results).

personal data
SURNAME	Kruse, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	October 22, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH	Swaan
DATE OF DEATH	July 26, 1960
Place of death	Berlin-Charlottenburg

[1] Short biography Kruse, Wilhelm. In: Ateliergemeinschaft Klosterstrasse - Berlin 1933–1945. Artist in the time of National Socialism. Akademie der Künste (Edition Hentrich), Berlin 1994. ISBN 3-89468-134-9 , p. 224.

[2] Berlin architecture world. 16th year 1913/1914, volume 3 (from June 1913), p. 225 (communication of the competition results).