Arnold Kramer

Arnold Kramer (born May 17, 1863 in Wolfenbüttel , † May 9, 1918 in Braunschweig ) was a German sculptor and medalist .

Life

The son of a Wolfenbüttel leather manufacturer attended high school in his hometown before studying drawing and modeling with the painter Adolf Nickol (1824–1905) and the ore caster Georg Ferdinand Howaldt at the TH Braunschweig from 1882 . He continued his education from 1883 to 1888 at the Dresden Art Academy . He then worked under Echtermeier on the Abbot monument in Braunschweig and returned to Dresden in 1889 , where he founded his own studio. In 1908 he moved to Langebrück near Dresden and returned to Braunschweig in 1913. Kramer was awarded the title of professor in 1915. He died in Braunschweig in 1918.

Works (selection)

" Eulenspiegel-Brunnen " in Braunschweig, 1905

"Squatting Flute Player", Braunschweig, 1910/11

Kramer created portrait busts, relief images, fountains, grave monuments, small sculptures as well as coins and medals for private, state and church clients. He designed his works mainly in marble, stone and bronze. The Braunschweig Municipal Museum is showing a large number of Kramer's works .

Statuette Nietzsche in the hospital chair , 1898
Marble bath by the writer Otto Ludwig on the Bürgerwiese in Dresden, 1911
Eulenspiegel fountain in Braunschweig, 1905
Squatting flute player in Braunschweig, 1910/11 (since 1983 in the sculpture park of the Villa Gerloff , since 2013 in the green area at Hohetorwall)
Design by Heinrich the Lion in Eisen in Braunschweig, 1915
Relief medallion by the local poet Wilhelm von Polenz for his memorial in Bautzen ; a second version came to the municipal museum.
Bronze relief of a group of figures, Friedrich Hesse tomb, Radebeul-Ost cemetery
Portrait bust of the physicist Hans Friedrich Geitel from Wolfenbüttel

literature

Kramer, Arnold . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 21 : Knip – Kruger . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 411-412 .
Kramer, Arnold. In: Manfred Garzmann , Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (Hrsg.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon . Supplementary volume. Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1996, ISBN 3-926701-30-7 , p. 134 .
Wulf Otte: Kramer, Arnold, Prof. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 345 .

Web links

Commons : Arnold Kramer - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Prof. Arnold Kramer. Artist. German Society for Medal Art, accessed on November 24, 2015 .
↑ Kramer, Arnold . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 21 : Knip – Kruger . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 412 .

personal data
SURNAME	Kramer, Arnold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	May 17, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wolfenbüttel
DATE OF DEATH	May 9, 1918
Place of death	Braunschweig

[1] Prof. Arnold Kramer. Artist. German Society for Medal Art, accessed on November 24, 2015 .

[2] Kramer, Arnold . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 21 : Knip – Kruger . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 412 .