Albert Pehle

Albert Pehle (* 1874 in Lippstadt , † 1948 in Düsseldorf ) was a German sculptor and interior decorator.

Life

Houses on Drakeplatz from left to right on the corner of Wildenbruchstrasse: No. 5 and 4 houses by the sculptor Albert Pehle (1905).

Albert Pehle, coming from Lippstadt, studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from May 1895 under Karl Janssen. Classmates included Heinrich Baucke , Fritz Coubillier , Joseph Hammerschmidt and Carl Heinz Müller .

Pehle was a member of the association of the "Sculptors Group 1900", the artists' association Malkasten and the association of Düsseldorf artists , where around 1910 he was on the commission for external exhibitions.

As a sculptor and interior decorator, he created numerous altar ensembles and individual figures for churches in the Rhineland and Westphalia. In 1925, he even worked as an architect in Rixbeck, a district of Lippstadt. “[...] However, the people of Rixbeck wanted the sculptor Pehle as the draftsman and the Heinrich Pehle company as the building contractor. There were good contacts through the Pehlsche Dampfziegelei, which had been in Schlingfeld for over 20 years. With this constellation, there would be no costs for plans and construction supervision, argued the Rixbeckers, and thus prevailed even though it was church regulation that the author and the construction company could not be the same. "

At the beginning of 1900, Albert Pehle acquired house no.5 (70) and house no.4 (72) in what was then the Düsseldorf suburb of Oberkassel on Drakeplatz at the corner of Wildenbruchstrasse (formerly Karolinger Strasse). Albert Pehle had been married to the piano teacher Aenne Bornemann since 1903, a sister of Walter Ophey's future wife Bernhardine Bornemann (1879–1968). Thanks to the friendly relationship with Pehle, Ophey was able to move into a studio in Pehle's studio house, which he shared with the painter Heinz May . In 1913 Heinrich Maria Davringhausen (1894–1970) moved into Albert Pehle's studio while studying at the academy. The painters Fritz Köhler , Hans Seyppel and Hans-Albert Simon-Schaefer (1907–1993) and the sculptors Burga von Wecus and Willy Hanebal also had their studios there in the 1930s. The studio house was partially destroyed in the Second World War . In the 1960s, Joseph Beuys took over the four-story house at Drakeplatz 4 from Pehle's son Georg.

Works (selection)

Statue of Bernhard II zu Lippe, Lippstadt

St. Antonius Church , Rixbeck

1900: high altar, St. Laurentius , Thüle
1903: Marienaltar, St. Laurentius, Thüle
1907: Sculpture in the figurative part of the Girardethaus , Königsallee / Grabenstrasse, Düsseldorf
1907: Portrait bust of Friedrich Wilhelm Grimme , cast bronze, Assinghausen (a monumental design for a Grimme monument from 1907 was not carried out)
1907: neo-Gothic main altar with carved reliefs, St. Michael , Werdohl
1909: Sculpture of St. Anthony above the portal of St. Antonius Church in Düsseldorf-Friedrichstadt
1910: Pietà , Herz-Jesu Church, Bochum-Werne
1910 Josefs altar, St. Laurentius , Thüle
1914: Statue of Bernhard II. Zu Lippe on the Bernhardbrunnen, Lippstadt (due to the war, however, Pehle's work could not be inaugurated until 1920.)

after 1917: 14th station of the cross, St. Josef , Rheydt, designed as an altar

1921–1922: Pietà made of Baumberger sandstone in the chapel room of the parish church, Olpe (the chapel extension on the northern tower of the parish church was used as a war memorial chapel after the First World War)

1922: Figure of Josef the carpenter on the choir pillars stand on ornamental plinths, St. Anna , Mönchengladbach-Windberg

1922: Praying warrior at the grave , Meal, Memorial for the Fallen, Nordwalder Straße, Emsdetten

1925: Anna statue , namesake of the Church of St. Anna with Maria, Mönchengladbach-Windberg

1925: Catholic Church of St. Antonius von Padua , Rixbeck, Lippstadt district

1928: Soldiers Pietà , Langenberg

1910: Antonius altar and warrior memorial altar with Pietà, St. Antonius , Düsseldorf-Oberkassel

Web links

Commons : Albert Pehle - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Albert Pehle is included in the inventory of the RAK, Bonn
Image (detail) Albert Pehle in his studio under a monumental crucifix, p. 31 (PDF) , in messages from the Rhenish archive for artists' bequests, issue 1, Bonn 2009

Individual evidence

^ Albert Pehle, place of origin Lippstadt, inventory signature BR 0004 No. 1562, sheet 263V, school year 1894/95, teacher Karl Janssen, art subject or existing training as a sculptor , finding aid 212.01.04 student lists of the Düsseldorf Art Academy, on archives in North Rhine-Westphalia

^ Sculptor Group 1900 , in address book for the city of Düsseldorf, 1907, p. 36

^ Artists' associations , in address book for the city of Düsseldorf, 1911, p. 33

^ Lecture by Hubert Marke on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the St. Antonius Church in Rixbeck

^ Pehle, Albert, Karolinger Straße 70, 2nd floor , in the address book for the municipality of Düsseldorf, V. Theil Mayor's Office Heerdt, Obercassel, 1904, p. 52

^ Pehle, Albert, Karolinger Straße 72 , in address book for the municipality of Düsseldorf, V. Theil Bürgermeisterei Heerdt, Obercassel, 1907, p. 71

↑ Note: When Oberkassel still belonged to the municipality of Heerdt (until 1909, after the name of the streets was changed), Pehle lived according to the address book in 1905 at Karolingerstraße 70 in Oberkassel; in 1907 at Karolingerstrasse 72; in 1908 Karolingerstraße 70/72, which became Drakeplatz 4/5 with the incorporation of Heerdt.

^ Drakeplatz 4: E Pehle, Alb., Art sculptor 1; by Wecus, Walburga, art sculptor U; Hanebal, Willy, art sculpture. U; Seyppel, Hans, painter U; Köhler, Fritz, painter 1; Simon-Schaefer, Hans Alb., Painter 3rd in the address book of the city of Düsseldorf 1938 ( ub.uni-duesseldorf.de )