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| Cirillo dell'Antonio at work "on Hauptmann's" |
was summer 1922, when the mayor of Jablonec, Mr. Dr. hc Karl R. Fischer, was on holiday in Teplice and one evening he took me with him to Gerhart Hauptmann. Fischer has recently helped the poet at the border, he was returning from a long trip through Europe and conceded just Jablonec the mayor, that expired in the passport, so that the fears of trouble at the border. Mayor Fischer packed Hauptmann to his company car at the border and spoke to Czech customs officer: "This is the greatest poet of our times, Gerhart Hauptmann, who returns from a few months traveling through Europe, during which time his passport expired, but please do not do it with this Because of the difficulties. " The border guard said, "I do not intend, and ask for an autograph," and suggested the poet - in the absence of any other paper - a form bill of lading, then you very much for an authorized signature thanked. "We drove up to the Prussian border guard so," he said Fischer. "Here I repeated the formula prior." - "It can not be! May be the greatest poet, but passport must be right! In any case it does not pass." - "So I called the office of President in Jagniątków and district governor in Jelenia Gora, after prolonged negotiations, we managed to pass, finished the story of Fischer.
When Hauptmann was told that I come from South Tyrol and I was born at the foot of Rosengarten ( Catinaccio - editor. crowd. ), after dinner, read extracts from "Blaue Blume" he wrote recently, during his stay in Gries near Bolzano ( today: the district of Bolzano - editor. crowd.) in the shade Catinaccio. That night I ventured to ask the poet, I wanted to pose for a bust, for the sake of my friend Fischer.
Ten years later, in summer 1932, Hauptmann called me and invited me to tea. I was asked for the glass of the site where the wax was a bust. "You know," said the poet, "is a bust of Benvenuto I made my son a few years ago, softened wax, all tilted and may tip over. How can I restore it to the vertical?". Measurements, I have made, commissioned the School of woodcarving in Teplice and support the implementation of the pedestal on which rested a wax sculpture - and everything was fine. This time, however, turned to Hauptmann, asking that I wanted to pose. "Now I'm too busy," he said. "But when I have time - I'll call you."
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| 70-year old bust of 1932 Hauptmann . |
Before Christmas 1932, the poet told me that now would be the time to pose. He would not sit, stood, saying that could become a lot more than sit. "You see? From my cold, cracked lips, it's too cold, so I can not walk on the court. But if I can not walk outside, I can not write well. All my songs were, after all 'wychodzone', ie: when I think of all the walks and composes in her head, and later at home pouring it on paper. And because of this cold I can not go, I have the time to pose for you. After Christmas I am going to Italy and there I will be able to work again. "
In January 1942, I posed the poet to another bust." Sculptures you learned in South Tyrol, right? It is there yet it is home to wood carvings, home of the whole art. And people are so pleasant. Often there would visit in the near Brixen and Gries Bolzano. "-" This is where you wrote 'Die Blaue Blume', doctor, "I said." I have to read it, I wonder what you wrote about my country. "-" It seems that the "Blaue Blume" came out in paperback also in the Reclam publishing house, the same as' Bahnwärter Thiel '(' Thiel Station Agent ') who, among all the editions Reclamu had - as they say - the best selling. "-" I think, "I said' that's very noble on the part of this publication that publishes such works at an affordable price, making a number of very wealthy fellow citizens have access to spiritual nourishment. " - "The truth is," he said. "Too seldom is it points out." "Sculptor Klimsch also modeled my bust, for many years to good friends, a great artist. You must see a bust by Klimscha in my archives at the bottom." We went down stairs and immediately threw me in the eyes of a plaster model of the monument by the sculptor Mommsen Schaper, compact in design and sophisticated in the attitude. "I deeply regret that this statue was not," said Hauptmann, "I think that Mommsen was well captured and presented. When the war is over I will have cast in bronze this model to keep this beautiful work for future generations. "bust sculpted by Klimscha was quite high but it was obvious that a great job and - although that was twenty years ago - still in his eyes cast a likeness." One is modeled a bust of the wife of Rainer Maria Rilke, a pupil of Rodin. Imagine, one day, Rilke wrote me that he wants to create a Rodin bust of me, I would go to Paris and sit there. Unfortunately, some difficulties arose, and this never happened. I regret also that it posed to Max Klinger, wanted to create my bust for my fiftieth birthday. To this end, he came from Paris to Leipzig. Unfortunately, I was so busy that I could not put up for meeting with him. Well, come to terms with this, but that was not unusual will work. "
When the bust was nearly finished, and I was carrying a large wooden spatula amendments, my model said with a smile:" It makes me great pleasure observing how you end such a big bust modeling tool. "-" Yes, my teacher taught me, "I said," require us to work large tools, because thanks to the work goes faster than using small tools, and the model itself is a vibrant and fresher. "-" This is good science, what you gave, just such advice is very important for the sculptor. When I modeled the bust, I worked with them only small tools. "In addition to the aforementioned bust of his son Benvenuto, showed me two more, which he modeled, and I said:" It is a pity, sir, that you could not ask for more rzeźbiarstwu ". -" Maybe the damage, "he replied," but I wanted a little more show off and prose and poetry. "
" Gerhart Hauptmann poses for a bust, "
in" Wanderer im Riesengebirge "of 1943, Issue 11/12
(author: [Cirillo] dell'Antonio)
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