Zoltan Székessy

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Anchor fountain in front of the IHK in Duisburg (1958)
Genius of Time in Minden (1954)
Cenotaph for the victims of fascism in Viersen (1957)

Zoltan Székessy (born March 7, 1899 in Dombiratos , Hungary; † December 18, 1968 in Düsseldorf ) was a Hungarian-German sculptor and professor at the Düsseldorf Art Academy .

life and work

After studying at the Free Art School in Budapest from 1921–1922, he studied with Richard Langer at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf until 1927 . Only interrupted by training as a wood carver journeyman in Budapest. He received further training at the Burg Giebichenstein Art College in Halle with Gerhard Marcks and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Bernhard Bleeker . After a short time as a freelance sculptor in Budapest, he finally moved to Düsseldorf in 1929.

He designed his sculpture Sitzendes Kind in 1937 on the occasion of the Reich Exhibition Schaffendes Volk in Düsseldorf for a fountain in the Düsseldorfer Schlageter Siedlung (today Golzheimer Siedlung). Originally he was supposed to design one of the twelve sculptures on the water axis in the north park, but he had to swap his original, lucrative order for the sculpture in the north park with the party-loyal artist Ernst Gottschalk . In 1939 the sculpture Seated Child was classified as degenerate by the National Socialists . Székessy bought the sculpture back himself and saved it from melting down. Before the city of Düsseldorf could buy back the sculpture before the war, the sculpture was stolen from Székessy's garden and destroyed. In 1963 the city made a duplicate, which is now in the old place in the Golzheimer Siedlung.

After the Second World War, he received a professorship at the local art academy from 1952 to 1964. Some of his students were Wolfgang Binding , Udo Meyer , Benno Werth and Hubert Löneke and Pieter Sohl from Heidelberg.

Media coverage

On December 2, 2018, an episode of the NDR's Lieb & Teuer program was broadcast, moderated by Janin Ullmann and filmed in the Kupferstichkabinett of the Hamburger Kunsthalle . In it, two sculptures were discussed with the art historian Stefan Schwarzl, which represented Johanna Ey and were created by Hermann Hundt and Zoltan Székessy.

Honors

Works (selection)

  • 1936/37: Shepherd for the Reich Exhibition Schaffendes Volk in Düsseldorf
  • 1937: Dresden, Saxon State Library - State and University Library Dresden: Boy with a pigeon
  • 1937/1963: Düsseldorf: Fountain figure seated child
  • 1954, Minden: the genius of time
  • Memorial to the victims of the resistance against the National Socialist tyranny in Herne
  • 1957, Viersen: memorial for the victims of National Socialism in the city of Viersen
  • 1958, Duisburg : IHK fountain - on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the Duisburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry
  • 1952–1953, Mindener Dom , together with Werner March creation of the pulpit. (Stored today)
  • 1960, historical town hall Düsseldorf , in the entrance hall: guard , 1.7 meter high bronze figure
  • 1962, Friedensplatz Oberhausen : bird (swan)
  • Wiesbaden, Castle and Hessian State Parliament , foyer of the plenary hall: bust of the first Federal President Theodor Heuss

Exhibitions and literature

  • 1939 Robert Pudlich : pictures, watercolors and drawings; Gerhard Marcks , Zoltan Székessy: Sculptures and drawings: 36th exhibition (with Karl Buchholz in Berlin)
  • Zoltan Székessy. (= Monographs on Rhenish-Westphalian contemporary art, Volume 30.) Fischer, Wend Verlag: Recklinghausen, (1965)
  • Zoltán Székessy. Sculptures, drawings; June 9 - July 31, 1978, Galerie Vömel, Düsseldorf. (1978)
  • Zoltán Székessy as a teacher; State Art Academy, Hochschule f. Fine Arts (1962)

Web links

Commons : Zoltán Székessy  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefanie Schäfers: From the Werkbund to the four-year plan. The exhibition Schaffendes Volk, Düsseldorf 1937 , sources and research on the history of the Lower Rhine. Edited by Düsseldorfer Geschichtsverein, Volume 4 Die Ständischen Online available ( Memento of the original from November 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schaffendesvolk.sellerie.de
  2. ↑ a b c Figure: Seated child  in the German Digital Library . Retrieved November 20, 2013
  3. ↑ a b Stefanie Schäfers: From the Werkbund to the four-year plan. The exhibition Schaffendes Volk, Düsseldorf 1937 , sources and research on the history of the Lower Rhine. Edited by Düsseldorfer Geschichtsverein, Volume 4 Seated Child Available online ( Memento of the original dated December 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schaffendesvolk.sellerie.de
  4. ^ Website of Pieter Sohl
  5. ↑ Video sculptures with images of Johanna Ey on ndr.de
  6. ↑ Figure: Boy with a pigeon  in the German Digital Library . Retrieved November 20, 2013
  7. ↑ Genius der Zeit on Public Art wiki , accessed November 20, 2013
  8. ↑ Schwan ( Memento of the original dated December 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on Oberhausen-Rheinland.de  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / Aussichten.oberhausen-rheinland.de
personal data
SURNAME Székessy, Zoltan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Dombiratos , Hungary
DATE OF DEATH 18th December 1968
Place of death Dusseldorf