Alois Mayer (sculptor)

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Alois Mayer (born March 3, 1855 in Füssen , † October 7, 1936 in Munich ) was a German sculptor . At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, he created several statues and other monuments in Germany , mainly made of bronze, as well as various small sculptures.

Life

Mayer was born as the son of the married couple Franz Josef and Regina Mayer on March 3, 1855 in Füssen. Alois Mayer has not yet known anything about childhood, youth, school education, apprenticeship, etc.

From 1882 he lived in Munich, where he was awarded the certificate of civil and homeland rights.

From about 1885 he was an assistant in the studio of the sculptor Wilhelm von Rümann . He also worked as a freelance artist.

He was a member of the Reich Association of Fine Artists in Germany and the Munich Artists' Cooperative.

In 1901 he received the Ludwig Medal for Science and Art on the occasion of the 80th birthday of Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria . In 1910 Mayer was awarded the Prince Regent Luitpold Medal in silver.

Works

Small plastic

  • Girl bust , plaster, bronzed, Linz, Castle Museum
  • Girl with a basket of fish ; sign. Alois Mayer; Copper bronze; 27 cm; around 1900.
  • Allegory of Justice / Justitia ; sign. on plinth: A. Mayer; Figure with the attributes Libra in the raised left hand, sword in the lowered right hand, right foot standing on a book of law, underneath a snake; dark patinated bronze on a circular stone base; approx. 50 cm, base 6 cm
  • Psyche ; sign. A. MAYER; Standing representation of the mythological figure leaning against a pilaster; patinated bronze on a circular green marble base; 39.5 cm; Images of a copy
  • Bacchante ; sign on the plinth. Mayer; Figure on a stepped stone base (granite?), Holding a wine goblet in the raised right hand, a grapevine in the left hand, a drum on the hip; dark patinated hollow copper casting
  • Knight in complete armor with weapons, on a bronze base; 70 cm.
  • Figure with dog ; bronzed electroforming ; 72.5 cm. Illustration of a copy
  • Naked, standing boy with a ball in his right hand ; sign. on the plinth: ALOYS MAYER; Wood, on a square plinth; 33.5 cm (including base 37 cm)
  • Naked standing boy with a ball in his hands, on the left a monkey, also with a ball, which is playing and reaching for the child ; Linden wood, signed on the reverse of the plinth: ALOYS MAYER - MÜNCHEN - 1921; Total height 30.5 cm

Monuments

Alfred Krupp monument in Essen, around 1910
Bismarck monument in Frankfurt-Höchst
  • 1892: Alfred Krupp memorial in front of the main gate of the Krupp cast steel factory in Essen
    The Krupp workers financed this memorial in order to honor their employer Alfred Krupp, who died in 1887, for his outstanding achievements in both industrial and humanitarian fields . Krupp was depicted as a statue one and a half times life size. Two assistant figures flanked the base: on the left a blacksmith as a symbol of work, on the right a worker widow with child who embodied humanitas . It was ceremoniously unveiled in 1892 with the participation of the entire Krupp workforce. The memorial fell from its base during the Second World War due to the impact of a bomb and was re-erected in 1954 in the immediate vicinity of its original location. In 1962 it was moved to the park of Villa Hügel , where it was replaced by a new cast in 1999. The original statue is now in the Ruhr Museum in Essen.
  • 1899: Bismarck monument in (Frankfurt) Höchst am Main
  • 1902: Wittelsbach monument in Füssen (with statue of Prince Regent Luitpold)
  • 1903: Kaiser Wilhelm monument in Herne (equestrian statue; not preserved)
  • 1904: Prince Regent Luitpold monument in front of the entrance building of the main train station in Nuremberg (involved as an employee of Wilhelm von Rümann; architecture by Paul Pfann ; destroyed in World War II)
  • 1911: Prince Regent Luitpold Monument in Heilsbronn , Kammerecker Platz (cast by H. Klement, Munich; under monument protection)

literature

  • Mayer, Alois. In: Willy Oskar Dressler : Dressler's art manual . The book of the living German artists, archeologists, art scholars and art writers . 8th edition, volume 2 (fine arts), Curtius, Berlin 1920.
  • Mayer, Alois . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 24 : Mandere – Möhl . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1930, p. 462 .
  • Harold Berman: Bronzes. Sculptors & Founders 1800–1930. 4 volumes, Abage, Chicago 1974–1981, index volume: 1981; 2nd edition of the volumes. 2-4: Schiffer Pub., Atglen, PA 1994.
  • Gunnar Hillenbrand: Bronze Signatures and Foundry Marks. Battenberg, Augsburg 1992, ISBN 3-89441-064-7 , p. 275.
  • Thomas Riedmiller: Alois Mayer. A sculptor from Füssen who "... has made a name for himself". In: 2005 yearbook of the historical historical association "Alt Füssen". Füssen 2006, pp. 111-114.
  • Anne Goldfuß: Füssen and Prince Regent Luitpold. The establishment of the Wittelsbach monument in 1902. In: 2005 yearbook of the historical historical association "Alt Füssen". Füssen 2006, pp. 100-110.

Web links

Commons : Alois Mayer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bismarck memorial in Frankfurt-Höchst, 1899
  2. ↑ Prince Regent Luitpold Monument in Nuremberg
personal data
SURNAME Mayer, Alois
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Feet
DATE OF DEATH October 7, 1936
Place of death Munich