He created in Bayrischzell some of his well-known sculptures of animals. On the first day of Christmas, 50 years ago, Philipp Harth died. For 2020, the planned re-opening of his Studio.
Bayrischzell – A life-sized Tiger to be guarded with sharp paws for over half a century, the house of his Creator, his gaze still watchful. Through the cold Season is also the building and the garden work at the tannerhof road in Bayrischzell frozen. The time froze as well in this cultural place where many memories are hidden – in a time of creativity and creation. There, the sculptor and artist Philipp Harth, sang live some of his internationally renowned sculptures of animals that lived for 22 years.
1946 were drawn Harth and his wife, Ida zur Nieden to Bayrischzell, after they had Got in Berlin in the conflagration of the Second world war and lost. In the Oberland Harths sister-in-law Mimi Thier lived, and on your property at the tannerhof street, the artist built according to own plans of his new house and Studio. In the workshop it’s freezing cold, and a grey plastic tarp covered what has created the sculptor Harth: some of his “animals” that conk out in keeping with the Season of the winter sleep.
+ Homely atmosphere: great-granddaughter Marica Doll celebrates Christmas this year with your family in the Studio of the great-grandfather in Bayrischzell.©Thomas Plettenberg
a return But in the home Harth now live again. In the fireplace of the Studio, a fire crackles. On the tables, flickering candles, a Christmas tree stands in the middle of the room. Decorated it with silver Tinsel, hung with colored foil paper figures of Mary, Zeus or the Nicholas, the Harth to the end of the war for his grandson has made. The handwriting of the artist is omnipresent. The life and survival of large plaster models of a Pelican, lion, wolf, and two storks look silent to your viewer down. Your cast in Bronze animal sculptures can be seen at prominent and public places in Germany, from Berlin to Bayrischzell. For example, the “standing lion is to be found” at the mönckeberg fountain in Hamburg, is reported by Marica Doll. The 57-year-old Munich native is the great-granddaughter of Harth and now manages his estate.
Doll was seven years old when her great-grandfather at 25. December 1968, died Netspor shortly after midnight in his bayrisch Zell domicile in the bedroom. On the night of his death she can’t remember, but probably at his “refreshing” personality: “He’s a therapeutic effect had, indeed, just fine,” she says. If he worked, he was always in a “high spiritual state”.
Harth lived withdrawn in the place, rather, worked hard. In the international art scene, he is regarded as one of the “phenomena of the greatest sculptors that Germany has produced since the turn of the century”. The village historican Michael Meindl, refers to documents of the Academy of fine arts in Munich says that Harth has been awarded a year before his death, the honorary membership. In spite of the many awards he had always remained “incredibly modest with a great humility,” says great-granddaughter Doll.
It was, above all, humility to the creation of nature: Harth loved-namely, the animals, and they loved him. A hunter brought the Harths were two Bambi’s, who lived on until her death in the house. Actually, there was a shed in the garden, but these are the two deer refused, and went rather to the house of the Harths. “Riecke and Sissi slept and ate there,” says Doll. And in the morning you pull your favorite pair of pants, should wear Harth, from his wardrobe. It was a “fluffy brown cord pants”.
+ True love of Animals: The deer Riecke and Sissi slept and ate in the home Harth. The sculptor felt the confidence of the shy animals as a special honor.©Private
For Harth were the encounter and the common life with the shy forest animals, “the highest honor, since you have chosen him as a human being, friend”. And so henceforth, all visitors to the Harths always quiet and not hectic move, so that the deer will not be disturbed.
Harth was an animal sculptor of classic Modernism, which had in the 1930s, its High-time. “He has always worked meticulously and carefully,” explains Doll. The Bavarian Zeller artist Tutti Gogolin (79), played as a child in the summer holidays outside on the Lawn and indoors in the Studio Harths confirmed. “He has brought out the Characteristic of the animals in his Work,” says Gogolin. A property that was dormant early in the Harth. After his stone pressure training he had at the beginning of the 20th century. Century for architects to train and wanted to be a master Builder. His training is reflected in his works. His sculptures show, according to great-granddaughter Doll “architectural Physiognomy,” and he in particular worked on the “evolutionary function”: “animals are creatures of Survival. Nothing in them is superfluous.“
the purpose of the Harths work would like to offer the Doll together with the nature of hotel Tannerhof for people interested in art. In 1990, the Bavarian Zeller Studio was once for a couple of years accessible to the Public, but again, as the descendants of the Harths had because of their professional obligations is actually no time for it. Doll now has this time, and receives support from her partner Burkhard drizzle, a landscape painter. For the summer of 2020, the Atelier is planned for opening in addition to a “sculpture garden”. It’s supposed to be a “place of well-being,” she says.
Doll closes the door to the Studio again, you can see a black-and-gray cat that she named Bobo, past her out into the cold. Doll reported that he was running to her. “He comes and goes, and I don’t know who he actually belongs,” she says, laughing. And last summer, she visited the terrace is always a grouse. Apparently, the animals still feel comfortable in and at the old Harth-house. Where Doll placed this year for the first Time the Christmas tree in the Studio, to celebrate Christmas with the family. Where once an artist many creative years spent with the loved animals and ladies and images of you created, the defy until today, the time and make next to Harth in the history of art immortal.
biography
As the second of five children of the stone printer Adam Harth and his wife, Katharina, Philipp Harth comes on 9. July 1885 in Mainz to the world. In 1908, he married aspiring Opera singer Ida zur Nieden (1886-1981). In Berlin in 1911, daughter Herta is born. Harth starts training to be an architect. In the First world war, he is injured in a chlorine gas attack. 1927 to 1936, studies and working stays in Tyrol, Hamburg, Paris and Rome. In 1941, the Harths leave Berlin. Until the end of the war, the artist is under the supervision of the Gestapo, and must not work. In 1946 the family moved to Bayrischzell. Harth dies on Christmas day in 1968.
Daniel Wegscheider
