Bernhard Frydag

War memorial in Munster

Bernhard Frydag (born June 18, 1879 in Münster , † April 7, 1916 near Lens ) was a German sculptor and medalist .

Frydag was a son of the sculptor Bernhard Frydag and Maria geb. Rincklake, a sister of the architects August and Wilhelm Rincklake . He was trained by his father, studied until 1905 at the teaching establishment of the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin and went on study trips to Egypt and Rome. He then worked as a freelancer in Berlin-Grunewald. In addition to monuments, decorative sculptures and small bronzes were part of his oeuvre . The shepherd's fountain in König-Albert-Park in Leipzig was one of three works in the park of the Great Berlin Art Exhibition in 1907, next to a sculpture by Johannes Pfuhl ( Centaur Fight of Theseus , today on Viktoria-Platz in Athens) and a tomb by Hans Lehmann-Borges (1879–1945, member of the Deutscher Werkbund ). He fell as a soldier in the Anhalt Infantry Regiment No. 93 in the First World War near the city of Lens.

Bernhard Frydag was a member of the German Association of Artists .

Frydag was born with Maria Wehl from Celle married. After his death in 1917 she married the journalist and politician Wilhelm Heile .

Work (selection)

• 1907: Schäferbrunnen in König-Albert-Park in Leipzig ( shell limestone )
  This fountain was bought by the city administration of Leipzig after the above-mentioned Berlin exhibition.
• 1909: War memorial in Münster (Westphalia), on the promenade at the Mauritztor (for those who died in the German Wars of Unification ; in the manner of a victory column )
• 1911: six figural reliefs for the main facade of the building trade school in Essen

and undated:

• Small bronze "Song that has faded away"
• Small bronze "club carver"
• Small bronze "bathers"

literature

• Frydag, Bernhard . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 12 : Fiori-Fyt . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1916, p. 541 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Bernhard Frydag . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 171 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ War Chronicle 1914–1918–1916: Soldiers - Wounded and Fallen. City of Münster, accessed on February 27, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Bernhard Frydag. Artist. German Society for Medal Art, accessed on November 8, 2015 . 
3. ↑ Daniel Thalheim: The missing fountain - where an art nouveau work of art once stood in Clara-Zetkin-Park. wordpress.com, 2018, accessed February 27, 2019 . 
4. ^ ^{A b} International Studio an Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art. Volume 34, John Lane Co, New York 1909, accessed April 15, 2016.
5. ^ Members from 1903 - Full members of the German Association of Artists. Deutscher Künstlerbund eV - Archive, accessed on February 27, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Modern designs. 13th year 1914, No. 2 (from February 1914), p. 90 (illustration of four of the six reliefs; architect of the building: Edmund Körner ).