Paul Nisse

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Paul Nisse

Friedrich Paul Nisse (born January 31, 1869 in Halle (Saale) ; † June 6, 1949 in Mörsdorf ) was a German sculptor and artist .

Life

Paul Nisse was born into a merchant family in Halle an der Saale in 1869. From 1886 to 1894 he attended art schools and academies in Leipzig , Dresden , Karlsruhe , Munich and Berlin . In 1894 he worked as an employee and freelance artist in the studio of Prof. Ferdinand Hartzer , later he had his own studio in Berlin. In 1896 he married Meta Hanke. From 1898 to 1901 he created the fountain figure "Gänsemädchen", later named " Gänseliesel ", for the market square in Göttingen with the older Heinrich Stöckhardt . The son Thilo was born in 1900 and the daughter Melanie in 1901. From 1902 to 1914 he worked in Poznan , Leipzig, St. Louis (participation in the world exhibition with a fountain figure), Göttingen, St. Petersburg and Berlin. In 1903/04 he separated from the family.

From 1914 he participated as a war volunteer in the First World War, in which he was seriously wounded in 1915 and lost his right leg. In 1919 he created the memorial for those who died in the First World War in Lower Saxony , later also a memorial in Berga-Kelbra. From 1921 he had a job as a technical draftsman at Carl Zeiss in Jena. From 1924 he worked in his own studio in Mörsdorf / Thuringia. In 1925 he married Elsa Rudolph.

Works

  • Altar sculptures

  • "Thorn puller"

  • "Rider"

  • The original Gänseliesel - sculpture of the fountain figure (Göttingen)

  • Altar figures of the Kaiser-Friedrich-Gedächtniskirche in Berlin
  • War memorials in Niedersachswerfen and Berga-Kelbra

Fonts

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Church archive St. Ulrich Halle
  2. ↑ a b c Göttingen City Archives
personal data
SURNAME Nisse, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nisse, Friedrich Paul (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 1949
Place of death Mörsdorf (Thuringia)