Bruno Eyermann

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Bruno Hermann Eyermann (born February 26, 1888 in Leipzig , † December 30, 1961 in Hanau ) was a German sculptor , die cutter , medalist , graphic artist and painter .

Life

Bach monument in Weimar
Goethe fountain in Bad Berka
Portrait medallion Gustav Wohlgemuth
Portrait medallion Richard Hesse
Stone bowl at the entrance of the Physics Institute, Leipzig

Bruno Eyermann learned the profession of engraver . In addition to his gainful employment, he attended evening school at the Leipzig Art Academy from 1905 to 1908 , where he then studied until 1913. He was a student of Adolf Lehnert (sculpture), Georg Schiller (die cut) and Walter Tiemann , Bruno Héroux and Hans Soltmann (graphics). From 1919 to 1923 he taught at the same art college in the stamp cutting and engraving department.

From 1923 he lived as a freelance artist in Leipzig. When his apartment and studio, together with his previous artistic work, fell victim to the bombs in 1943 , he moved to Bad Berka . From 1955 to 1959 he lived again in his hometown. Two years before his death, he and his family moved to Hanau.

Creating art

Bruno Eyermann made himself known mainly as a medalist. He was one of the few artists who was able to cut the die immediately and negatively into the steel without a plastic template. His portrait medals are characterized by high physiognomic fidelity. They were made in iron, bronze, silver or Meissen porcelain . He also created small sculptures and busts in bronze, sandstone, terracotta or marble. In the figurative representation, his formal language was shaped by the style of New Objectivity . He also created gravestones and memorials for fallen soldiers, fountains, baptismal fonts and free sculptures.

He was also active as a draftsman and painter. The poster lithograph Tanz Helga Thierbach is known from his early career . In 1911 he painted a dining room at Windscheidstrasse 39 in Leipzig.

From 1912 he was represented with works at art exhibitions at home and abroad. His works of art are in the possession of numerous state and municipal collections and museums, including in Rome , Paris , Vienna , Berlin , Dresden , Munich , Hamburg , Lübeck , Frankfurt am Main , Weimar , Leipzig and Lambarene .

He received the Knobelsdorff badge for designing the facade of the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden . His son-in-law, the sculptor and medalist Helmut Güldner, was one of his students .

Exhibitions (selection)

Memberships

Works (selection)

Plastic work
  • 1918: Monument to the fallen in Altenburg
  • 1920: Standing female nude with a coat, bronze sculpture
  • 1922: Lothar Körner as Holofernes , marble bust
  • 1924: Table landmark for the Leonids, bronze
  • 1930: Portrait of a woman, bronze bust on a beige marble block
  • 1931: Richard Hesse, portrait relief, bronze, Südfriedhof Leipzig
  • 1938: Genschenkbronze, Gebr. Heine Tuchhandels AG
  • 1938: Surprised bathers, female nude, made in bronze, Böttger stoneware
  • 1940: Group of lions in Taucha , Lusatian granite , executed by Alexander Marby
  • 1950: Johann Sebastian Bach , bronze bust, Weimar , Platz der Demokratie
  • 1950: Figure Goethe fountain , bronze, Bad Berka
  • 1955: Putto with dolphin and vase with relief , agra-Park, Markkleeberg , together with Helmut Güldner
  • Looking, kneeling female nude, sandstone sculpture
  • Ursula with a bouquet of flowers , bronze sculpture
  • Thuringian blacksmith, bronze sculpture
  • Diana with deer, free sculpture, bronze sculpture on sandstone base
  • Death mask Ludwig van Beethoven , Gera , city theater
  • Bach bust, marble
  • Baptismal fountain, sandstone and bronze, Pegau , St. Laurentiuskirche
  • Hermann Abendroth , bronze bust
Medals and Plaques
  • 1912: Medal for the Leipzig Margaret Festival
  • 1912: Medal for the festival at the court of Ferrara of the Royal Academy for Graphics and Book Art Leipzig
  • 1913: Medal for the Mayor of Leipzig, Dr. Karl Rothe
  • 1913: Medal for Clemens Thieme , the German Patriot Association on the occasion of the inauguration of the Monument to the Battle of the Nations
  • 1913: Medal for Kaiser Wilhelm II for the 25th anniversary of the reign
  • 1922: plaque on Arthur Nikisch
  • 1925: Medal for Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on the 150th anniversary of Goethe's arrival in Weimar, November 7, 1775
  • 1926: Leonid medal on Heinrich Siber
  • 1927: Medal for Albert Friedemann
  • 1927: Leonid Medal for Carl Seffner
  • 1928: Leonid medal for Bruno Héroux
  • 1929: Leonid medal for Rudolf Bewer
  • 1930: Leonid medal for Max Mendheim
  • 1932: Leonid medal for Wilhelm Sieler
  • 1934: Leonid medal for Carl Herrmann
  • 1936: plaque on Franz Weber
  • 1937: Memorial plaque for Gustav Wohlgemuth (also made in marble for his tombstone)
  • 1938: Medal for Clemens Thieme and 25 years of the Völkerschlachtdenkmal
  • 1938: Medal for Bruno Héroux, 70th birthday
  • 1951: Commemorative plaque on the 100th anniversary of Albert Lortzing's death
  • 1953: Medal for Lucas Cranach , on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of his death
  • 1955: Medal on Arthur Nikisch
  • 1956: 750 years of art and culture, Dresden , iron art casting
  • 1956: Medal for Günther Ramin
  • 1957: Ernst Thälmann Admonishing the dead - never again fascism , Meissen Böttger stoneware / Meissen porcelain / bronze
  • 1958: Medal for Heinrich Zille on the occasion of his 100th birthday
  • 1958: self-portrait , bronze medal
  • 1959: Plaque on Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
  • Medal on Heinrich Abendroth
  • Medal on Franz Konwitschny
  • Relief portraits and tablets for the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden
  • 15 portraits of medical professionals (including Hippokrates , Robert Koch , Rudolf Virchow , Ferdinand Sauerbruch ) for the tuberculosis sanatorium Bad Berka
Others
  • 1911: Poster dance Helga Thierbach , lithograph
  • 1957: Stone bowls for the portal staircase of the Physikalisches Institut Leipzig
  • Interior of the ballroom of the Leunawerke Palace of Culture
  • Porphyry block with Lenin -relief before Iskra -Gedenkstätte Leipzig, Russians Straße 48

literature

  • Lothar Frede: Show coins relating to Saxony-Thuringia by Bruno Eyermann. A. Reichmann & Co, Halle / Saale 1925.
  • Friedrich Schulze: Medals from Bruno Eyermann. In: Leipzig. Illustrated monthly for culture, business and transport. Konkordia, Leipzig, Volume 4 (1927/28), p. 47.
  • W. Stie .: From Schiller to Knobelsdorff. Visit to the Leipzig medalist Bruno Eyermann. In: National newspaper. Berlin (East), Volume 8 (1955), No. 184, p. 7.
  • Eyermann, Bruno . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 64 .
  • DW: The portrait: Bruno Eyermann. In: Culture mirror of the trade fair city of Leipzig. Leipzig, Volume 4, Issue 5 (1957), pp. 443f.
  • Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig (ed.): Exhibition Bruno Eyermann and Max Schnabel from July 27 to August 24, 1958. Leipzig 1958.
  • Städtisches Museum Braunschweig (Ed.): Bruno Eyermann. Medals and Plaques. Exhibition catalog, Braunschweig 1960.
  • Ulf Dräger: German art medals of the 20th century. From the collection of the State Coin Cabinet Saxony-Anhalt. On the occasion of the exhibition German art medals of the 20th century from the collection of the State Coin Cabinet Saxony-Anhalt from October 25, 1996 to September 21, 1997 in the State Gallery Moritzburg Halle. Halle (Saale) 1996.
  • Herwig Guratzsch (Ed.): Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig. Catalog of sculptures. Letter Foundation, Cologne 1999.
  • Elisabeth Wynhoff: Eyermann, Bruno . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 35, Saur, Munich a. a. 2002, ISBN 3-598-22775-2 , p. 527 f.
  • Klaus Thieme: Bruno Eyermann Medals and Plaques . Edition M & S Münzen & Sammeln, Regenstauf 2016, ISBN 978-3-86646-852-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The apartment and studio were at Fockestrasse 10
personal data
SURNAME Eyermann, Bruno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eyermann, Bruno Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor, medalist
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1961
Place of death Hanau