Carl Burger

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Neptune Fountain , Elisabethhalle in Aachen
Triton fountain , Aachen
Bust of Charlemagne
Student fountain Bonn
Schängelbrunnen , Koblenz
Way of the Cross, Malmedy

Carl Burger (born November 26, 1875 in Tännesberg , † February 20, 1950 in Mayen ) was a German sculptor , medalist and technical school teacher.

Life

Carl Burger began his training in 1889 at the wood carving school in Partenkirchen . He then studied from 1892 to 1894 at the Munich School of Applied Arts . Between 1894 and 1896, various study trips took him to Bohemia , Austria and Belgium, among others . From 1896 to 1901 he was a student of Syrius Eberle at the Munich Art Academy . He then worked as a decorative sculptor under Felix Pfeifer . From 1901 he worked as a freelance artist. In 1904 he started teaching sculpture at the Aachen School of Applied Arts . From 1922 Carl Burger worked in Mayen. He founded the Mayener Steinmetz technical school and was its first director. He worked with local basaltic lava .

Works

Aachen Triton fountain (1906–1910), today on Kaiser-Friedrich-Allee, until 1923 in front of the main train station
Monument to the well- fortified blacksmith (1909) in Jakobstraße
Aesculap and Neptune fountain in the Elisabethhalle (1911)
Bust of Charlemagne
Bitburg Beer fountain (1937)
Bonn Student Fountain (1913)
Bruehl War memorial 1914–1918, on the south cemetery
Cochem Schlageter monument 15 m. high, Moselle schist 1934
drake War memorial to the fallen 1914–1918 (August 20, 1937), demolished
Eupen District war memorial 1866 and 1870/1871, on the Werthplatz
Hammerstein (on the Rhine) Unexecuted draft for imperial memorial on the Rhine island of Hammersteiner Werth
Inden - Lucherberg War memorial 1914–1918
Churches (victory) Roland sculpture at the Rathaus Kirchen, 1930
Koblenz Weinbrunnen near the Weindorf (1928) - dismantled in 1962, rebuilt in 2013
Pioneer memorial stone (1935) - battalion monument 1914–1918 of the 1st Rhenish Pioneer Battalion No. 8 , initially in the courtyard of the (former) Falckenstein barracks, since 1939 in the Rheinanlagen,
Schängelbrunnen in the courtyard destroyed in World War II (1940)
Cologne-Immendorf War memorial 1914–1918
Kreuzau War memorial 1914–1918
Malmedy 13 bas-reliefs for the Way of the Cross on Calvary (1913)
Mayen Relief of three figures on the house facade 1938, Am Layenborn 57a ​​Warrior Honor
Mayen. Basalt lava, tuff and bronze 1931
Rheinbrohl Memorial of the Infantry Regiment No. 29 , on the Rheinbrohler Ley
Sankt Goar Jung-Siegfried Basaltlava 1932
Stolberg (Rhineland) Crucifix in the parish church of St. Lucia
Relief of the penitent Magdalena , ibid
Zell (Moselle) Zeller Schwarze Katz-Brunnen, in Marktstrasse

Trivia

The Mayener Carl-Burger-Schule is named after Burger, a vocational school with a high school.

Publications

  • Carl Burger: The realm memorial on the island of Hammerstein in the Rhine / Draft v. Carl Burger, Mayen. Rhein- und Wied-Druckerei, Neuwied-Linz 1926.
  • Carl Burger: Old Hospital Chapel Mayen / sculpture exhibition. Ferrari, Mayen 1928.
  • Carl Burger: The beer fountain in Bitburg (Eifel). Bitburger Verlagsdruckerei, Bitburg 1937.

literature

  • Burger, Carl . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 15, Saur, Munich a. a. 1996, ISBN 3-598-22755-8 , pp. 200 f.
  • Max Schmid: Burger, Carl . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 5 : Brewer-Carlingen . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1911, p. 245 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Carl Burger . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p. 354-Burger, Carl .
  • Michael Losse: The sculptor Carl Burger and the Steinmetz-Fachschule in Mayen (1922–1966). In: Eifel yearbook. 1995, pp. 135-143.
  • Michael Losse: The Bise grave cross in Adenau. A work by the sculptor Prof. Carl Burger (1875–1950). In: Yearbook. City of Adenau, 1997, pp. 11–15.
  • Martin Steffens: Carl Burger, who gave our school its name. In: 75 years of the Carl Burger School. Vocational Schools Mayen, Mayen 1998, pp. 31–33.
  • Michael Losse: “A fairy tale world will arise in stone, a primer without words ...” Reflections on Carl Burger's “Fairy Tale Lair” in St. Veit Park in Mayen (1933). In: Heimatbuch. Mayen-Koblenz, 2000, pp. 76-83.

Web links

Commons : Carl Burger  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ artist. Prof. Carl Burger. German Society for Medal Art, accessed on October 30, 2015 .
  2. ↑ named Carl Burger bbs-mayen.de, accessed on February 13 2016th
personal data
SURNAME Burger, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and technical school teacher
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Tännesberg , Upper Palatinate
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 1950
Place of death Mayen