Emil Krieger

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Emil Krieger: Mourning soldiers (Langemark German War Cemetery, Belgium)

Emil Krieger (born September 8, 1902 in Kaiserslautern , † September 6, 1979 in Munich ) was a German sculptor and graphic artist .

Education and artistic career

Emil Krieger completed his technical training at the master school in Kaiserslautern . From 1921 he attended the arts and crafts school in Munich . His teachers here were: Richard Riemerschmid , Adolf Schinnerer and Julius Diez . From 1924 to 1931 he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , where he was a master student of Josef Wackerle . In 1928 he had his first exhibition in the Munich Glass Palace . In 1936, Krieger was awarded the Rome Prize . From 1946 to 1977 he held a teaching position for life drawing at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. In 1961 he received the Schwabing Art Prize .

Works

  • The sculpture " Isis floating on the waves" (badly damaged in World War II), today in Munich- Sendling in the park on the Neuhofener Berg , originally positioned on a fountain at Munich's Possartplatz (today Shakespeareplatz), year of origin unknown
  • 1940 bust of Adolf Büger
  • 1944 bust of Josef Bürckel (Gauleiter and Reich Governor of Vienna)
  • 1952 Fountain in the courtyard of the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior, Odeonsplatz 3 (Maxvorstadt)
  • 1952 sculpture "Kore", Electoral Palace Koblenz
  • 1953 bust of Heinrich Otto Wieland , at the Chemical Institute of the University of Freiburg im Breisgau and at the Chemical Institute of the LMU Munich
  • 1956 Four sculptures “Mourning Soldiers” in the Langemark military cemetery, West Flanders, Belgium
  • 1965 sculpture "Diana", indoor swimming pool in Kaiserslautern

Individual evidence

  1. ^ To: Martha Schad: Women in bronze and stone - Munich.
  2. ↑ Illustration in the magazine Jugend , p. 64

literature

  • Martha Schad: Women in bronze and stone - Munich . Stiebner Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 3830710437 , page 77, there is a short portrait of the artist Emil Krieger
  • Viktor Carl: Lexicon of Palatinate Personalities, Edenkoben 1995 (Hennig), ISBN 3980466809 , article "Emil Krieger"

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personal data
SURNAME Warrior, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaiserslautern
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1979
Place of death Munich