Edmund Meusel
Edmund Meusel (born March 31, 1876 in Sonneberg , † September 8, 1960 in Coburg ) was a German sculptor.
Life
Edmund Meusel was born as the son of a modeller in Sonneberg. There he attended school and studied at the Sonneberg Industrial School with Professor Reinhard Möller in the Technical Academy for Porcelain. After working in porcelain factories for a few years , he came to Coburg in 1899, where he worked in the G. Stellmacher studio. In 1905 Meusel went to Berlin-Friedenau and had his own studio there. In 1907 he returned to Coburg and worked as a freelance sculptor. At first he was mainly occupied with the design of small sculptures for the porcelain industry. When August Sommer took over the studio in the eastern pavilion in the Coburg Hofgarten , Meusel turned to large-scale sculptures in 1921.
In Sonneberg he created reliefs above the main entrance and in the main staircase for the conversion of the AOK building in 1926/27. He also designed the new town hall from 1927/28 in the stairwell with artificial stone sculptures and artificial stone reliefs. In Coburg, the war memorial for the victims of the First World War in the cemetery (1927), the nude figure of a woman at the Mohrenbrücke (1928), the Luther monument on the Veste (1930) and the memorial plaque for Felix Draeseke at the Markt 9 house come from Coburg (1935) by Meusel. In the early 1930s, a bronze bust of Hitler was one of his works. After the Second World War , the design of churches in Upper Franconia was his main focus. In 1960 Meusel died impoverished of cancer in Coburg.
Bridge figure in Coburg Mohrenstrasse
War memorial on the Coburg cemetery
Luther memorial on the Veste Coburg
literature
- Coburg signpost II / 13, 24.-31. March 1951, p. 5
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| SURNAME | Meusel, Edmund |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 31, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sonneberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 8, 1960 |
| Place of death | Coburg |