Willibald Fritsch
Willibald Fritsch (born May 16, 1876 in Berlin ; † July 1948 in Berlin-Charlottenburg ) was a German sculptor .
Life
The sculptor, who lived and worked in Charlottenburg , first graduated from the teaching institute of the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin before studying sculpture at the Berlin University of Fine Arts under Ludwig Manzel .
From 1900 he exhibited portrait busts and small bronzes , such as those of the German Empress Auguste Viktoria and Crown Prince Wilhelm , at the major Berlin art exhibition . In 1910 he presented a draft of a monument to Peter the Great for the city of Riga , but this monument was not executed. Fritsch of his life created other monuments, such as the Grabenseedenkmal in over Hanover (1919), the racing equestrian monument in Berlin-Karl Horst (1925), the Georg von Lehndorff - Herme in Hoppegarten near Berlin and an equestrian statue of Prince Sigismund of Prussia in Klein Flottbek in Hamburg .
Works (excerpt)
- Portrait bust General Field Marshal August von Mackensen , 1914/18, zinc , 47 × 28 × 51.5 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum , Vienna
Web links
literature
- Ilse Krumpöck: The sculptures in the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum , Vienna 2004, p. 49 f.
- Hans Vollmer (ed.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century . Leipzig 1955, Volume 2, p. 166.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Death register of the Charlottenburg registry office in Berlin No. 2685/1948.
- ↑ Ilse Krumpöck: Die Bildwerke im Heeresgeschichtliches Museum , Vienna 2004, p. 49 f.
- ↑ Hans Vollmer (ed.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century . Leipzig 1955, Volume 2, p. 166.
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| SURNAME | Fritsch, Willibald |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 16, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 1948 |
| Place of death | Berlin-Charlottenburg |