Edmund Gomansky

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Ceres fountain in Opole
"Mother with Child", Berlin (1898)

Edmund Gomansky , also Edmund Gomanski , (born November 6, 1854 in Stettin , † February 6, 1930 in Berlin ) was a German sculptor and medalist .

Life

Gomansky studied at the Berlin Academy of Arts , among others with Fritz Schaper . Then he was a student with Rudolf Siemering . From 1880 the artist , who lives in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, was represented at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition almost every year, initially with portrait busts and later with genre statues. From 1911 he mainly created naturalistic animal bronzes (including birds such as cranes and penguins).

Work (selection)

  • 1891: Praying boys (for the Royal Museums in Berlin, executed by Gomansky under the guidance of Rudolf Siemering )
  • 1895: Competition design for the Kaiser Wilhelm Monument in Chemnitz (awarded, but executed according to the competing design by Wilhelm von Rümann )
  • 1898: Mother with child (also "mother group"; marble sculpture of a mother with sleeping child), Berlin
The sculpture was without today's base together with the so-called "father group" of Wilhelm Haverkamp until 1960 part of a marble bench on the Andreasplatz . After the square was removed, it was set up in the Volkspark Friedrichshain , north of the Friedrichshain Clinic , as the center of a green roundabout. There it has been preserved in a very poor condition, the marble is very dirty.
  • 1902: Soldier statue for the meeting room of the Nieder-Barnim district building
  • 1904–1907: Ceres Fountain in Opole on Friedrichsplatz (today Plac Ignacego Daszyńskiego )
The fountain emerged from a competition held in 1900 for a monumental fountain in Opole and was inaugurated in 1907 on the 100th anniversary of the October Edict of 1807 and thus the Prussian agricultural reforms . The sculptures of Demeter (Ceres) and her daughter Persephone (Proserpina) as well as Poseidon (Neptune) with Glaucus and a fishing net and Heracles with a hoe symbolize agriculture, fishing and mining. The canopy-like attachment, apparently based on Art Nouveau , was probably removed in the 1940s.

literature

Web links

Commons : Edmund Gomansky  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Edmund Gomansky. German Society for Medal Art, accessed on November 29, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Art Chronicle. Issue 11, January 1, 1891, p. 222 ( digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de ).
  3. ↑ The art. Volume 5, 1902, p. 333 (Personal und Atelier-Nachrichten - Berlin, Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  4. ↑ German construction newspaper . Volume 34, No. 49, June 20, 1900, p. 304 (Prize applications: Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Gomansky, Edmund
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gomanski, Edmund (alternative spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1930
Place of death Berlin