Wilhelm Loth

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Wilhelm Loth (born September 24, 1920 in Darmstadt ; † February 17, 1993 there ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Loth completed an apprenticeship as a surveying technician and took private lessons with Fritz Schwarzbeck and, as he rejected Arno Breker and Josef Thorak , oriented himself towards Wilhelm Lehmbruck and Ernst Barlach . In 1937 he entered into letter contact with Käthe Kollwitz , who encouraged him from 1938 to devote himself entirely to sculpture. From 1940, during the Second World War , he was active in labor and military service and attended Toni Stadler's sculpture class at the Städelschule in Frankfurt. In 1946 Loth was released from a two-year captivity. In 1947 he continued his studies with Fritz Schwarzbeck and in the following year he taught as an assistant at the Technical University of Darmstadt . Loth was committed to the re-establishment of the Darmstadt Secession , from 1953 as its chairman. From 1958 to 1986 he headed the sculpture class at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe as a professor . In 1955 he was awarded the City of Darmstadt Art Prize, which has been known as the Wilhelm Loth Prize since 1995 . In 1959 he received a scholarship from the Villa Massimo . Loth was one of the participants in documenta III in Kassel in 1964 . Loth was a member of the German Association of Artists , in 1989 as first chairman.

Loth's pupils were u. a. the sculptor Franz Bernhard , the sculptor Barbara Isabella Bauer-Heusler, as well as Jürgen Goertz , Jörn Kausch, Guido Kucznierz, Ingeborg Maier-Buss, Robert Schad , Jutta Schwalbach and Elisabeth Wagner.

Prizes and awards (selection)

  • 1955 Art Prize of the City of Darmstadt
  • 1965 Grand Art Prize of the City of Cologne
  • 1979 Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
  • 1990 Jerg Ratgeb Prize

Wilhelm Loth Foundation

In 1992, the Wilhelm Loth Foundation was set up in Karlsruhe, the basis of which comprises thirty bronzes as well as plastics and numerous plasters, as well as around three thousand drawings and watercolors.

plant

Loth's oeuvre as a metal sculptor can be assigned to the New Figuration . His works are symbols of the modern, sensual and optimistic woman on the threshold of the third millennium.

“For me, beauty is not an ideal that is detached from life, but I look for it in forms that real life offers and that are beautiful to me because they are life-affirming. A beauty that all women can participate in. "

- Wilhelm Loth

From around 1957 Loth's formal language changed fundamentally and the shapes of his figures became angular. In the mid-1960s, Loth then switched to contrasting his figures (or torsos) with stereometric forms, often cubes, or combining both, which leads to an exciting contrast between the soft and hard forms.

Loth carried out several commissions for the Federal Republic of Germany, including work for the German Embassy in Lisbon (1970), the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg (1972) or the Figure 41/70 (1973), cast aluminum, 330 × 90 × 90 cm, The temporary accommodation option for refugees and asylum seekers from the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (formerly the diplomatic school of the Foreign Office), Gudenauer Weg 134-136, Bonn.

  • Mother with Child (1955).
    Bronze, 190 × 120 × 160 cm (with base).
    Beckstrasse / Heinrichstrasse, Darmstadt. Property: Bauverein AG Darmstadt

  • Falling Figure (1961).
    Stresemannufer, Mainz

  • Figure in Die 15 (1964).
    Kunsthalle Mannheim

  • Vertical double figure (1968).
    KG II of the University of Education, Kunzenweg 21, Freiburg im Breisgau

literature

  • Dieter Honisch (Vorw.): Art in the Federal Republic of Germany. 1945–1985 . National Gallery. Nicolai, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-87584-158-1 .
  • Wilhelm Loth: torso of the woman. Sculptures, drawings, photographs, paintings. Exhibition catalog, catalog raisonné. Publisher: City of Karlsruhe, Wilhelm Loth Foundation. Organizer: Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe ... Catalog editors: Brigitte Baumstark, Erika Rödiger-Diruf. Städtische Galerie, Karlsruhe 2001, ISBN 3-923344-53-8
  • Stuttgart encounters: The Wolfgang Kermer donation ; Städtische Galerie Neunkirchen, May 18 - June 24, 2005. Exhibition catalog, Ed. Neunkircher Kulturgesellschaft gGmbH, Nicole Nix-Hauck, catalog: Wolfgang Kermer
  • Rainer Schoch (arrangement): Wilhelm Loth: Catalog raisonné of prints: woodcuts, lithographs, etchings. Publisher: Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg, Wilhelm Loth Foundation Karlsruhe. Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-936688-56-6
  • Loth, Wilhelm . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 261 .

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Loth  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Board members of the German Association of Artists since 1951/1989 ( Memento from December 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on November 4, 2015)
  2. ^ Nine pupils of Wilhelm Loth. Tribute to an academy teacher. Barbara Isabella Bauer-Heusler, Franz Bernhard, Jürgen Goertz, Jörn Kausch, Guido Kucznierz, Ingeborg Maier-Buss, Robert Schad, Jutta Schwalbach, Elisabeth Wagner, 26.1. – 2.3.1986. Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Kunstverein Darmstadt eV Darmstadt 1986. (Exhibition catalog, 58 pages).
  3. ↑ Wilhelm Loth: sculpture 41/70 (figure 41/70) 1973 , Museum of the 1,000 places - art in architecture commissioned by the Federal since 1950
  4. ↑ Wilhelm Loth - Torso of the Woman - sculpture, drawing, photography , Georg Kolbe Museum, March 24 to May 20, 2002
  5. ↑ Wilhelm Loth - Torso of the Woman - sculpture, drawing, photography , Georg Kolbe Museum, March 24 to May 20, 2002
  6. ↑ Wilhelm Loth: sculpture 41/70 (figure 41/70) 1973 , Museum of the 1,000 places - art in architecture commissioned by the Federal since 1950
personal data
SURNAME Loth, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH 17th February 1993
Place of death Darmstadt