Wolf Shepherd Rider
Wolf Hirtreiter (born March 6, 1922 in Zwiesel , † March 11, 2014 in Gröbenzell ) was a German sculptor . Numerous sculptures in public and church buildings come from him.
Hirtreiter served as a youth in the Wehrmacht during the Second World War . After the end of the war, he first completed a commercial apprenticeship. From 1950 to 1956 he studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Anton Hiller .
Hirtreiter makes his work in stone, bronze, wood and enamel. His works include the Kräutlmarktbrunnen from 1972 on Marienplatz in Munich and a bronze glass container in the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs. He played a key role in shaping the churches in Lindberg , Bischofsreut , Passau-Auerbach , Winzer and Jandelsbrunn, for example .
From 1955 until its dissolution in 1992, he was a member of the artists' organization Donau-Wald-Gruppe . In 1959, Hirtreiter was awarded the silver medal of honor of the city of Graz and the culture prize of the city of Kiel . In 1972 he received the East Bavarian Culture Prize and in 1999 the Federal Cross of Merit .
Anecdotal
In 1965, the approximately 1.50 meter high bronze figure Sterntaler by the sculptor and ceramist Ferdinand Auerhammer was created. In the manner customary at the time, the figure shows the girl from Grimm's fairy tale Die Sterntaler , who holds up her skirt to catch the silver coins falling from the night sky. These coins are depicted three-dimensionally and have different inscriptions. One shows the year of manufacture 1965, another the inscription: "The architect + artists". In addition to the sculptors Arno Visino and Wolf Hirtreiter, a coin with the embossing "Kunstmaler Fottner" was dedicated to Josef Fottner . The sculpture originally served as a fountain figure, on whose raised skirt the jets of water met. With the renovation of the Gröbenzell S-Bahn station, the fountain system disappeared, the figure remained in the same place.
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Web links
- Literature by and about Wolf Hirtreiter in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Shepherd rider, wolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 6, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zwiesel |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 11, 2014 |
| Place of death | Groebenzell |