Adolf Liebermann

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Adolf Liebermann (born September 5, 1891 in Steinbach , Thuringia , † February 15, 1945 in Dresden ) was a German sculptor .

Life

In the period from 1913 to 1914 and from 1918 to 1923 Liebermann studied at the Dresden Art Academy with Selmar Werner and was his master student. Adolf Liebermann was a member of the German Association of Artists . From 1932 Liebermann, who was considered right-wing, was chairman of the Dresden Art Cooperative . In 1940 he was elected chairman of the artist association. In March and April 1943 he was director of the exhibition Soldat und Künstler , which took place under the patronage of Martin Mutschmann in the gallery building on Brühlsche Terrasse .

He was killed in the bombing raids on Dresden on February 15, 1945. His studio at Zirkusstraße 43 was destroyed and the works he had created were destroyed.

Liebermann created small and large sculptures, portrait busts and plastic facade decorations on Johann-Georgen-Allee in Dresden.

Works (selection)

  • 1922: Granite figure sword bearer in front of the König-Friedrich-August-Seminar on Teplitzer Straße, later Pedagogical Institute Dresden, removed after 1945, whereabouts unknown
  • 1936: Bronze figure Deutsche Wacht , House of German Art Berlin, HDK 464
  • 1943: Plaster figure of standing female nude, ring game , Dresden art exhibition 1943
  • 1940: bronze figure battle cry , Dresden City Museum, Lost Art-ID: 421903.

literature

  • Catalog Great Dresden Art Exhibition 1943, painting plastic graphics from October 16 - December 31, in the Saxon Art Association Brühlsche Terrasse (with text by Adolf Liebermann).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archive of the Dresden University of Fine Arts .
  2. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Ordinary members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Liebermann, Adolf ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed October 29, 2015)
  3. ^ Maria Petrasch: Otto Altenkirch. Life and work . State palaces, castles and gardens of Saxony, Nossen Castle / Altzella Monastery Park, 2005, p. 75.
  4. ^ Mortimer G. Davidson: Art in Germany 1933–1945 . Grabert 1992, p. 478.
  5. ^ Working group of Saxon military history e. V. Dresden: Disappeared monuments . Volume 7, 2nd edition. Beyer Verlag Sachsen for Culture and History, Dresden 2005, ISBN 3-9809520-2-9 , p. 54.
  6. ↑ Dresden City Archives 2.5. 15.64 Document No. 12; Great Dresden Art Exhibition 1941. Painting - plastic. Dresden July 5th - October 5th 1941, s. 19 No. 123; List of the collections of the Dresden City Museum during World War II, sheet 7; City Museum Old Stock, sheet 57
personal data
SURNAME Liebermann, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Steinbach
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 1945
Place of death Dresden