Emil Teubner

Emil Teubner (born February 28, 1877 in Steinbach ; † July 6, 1958 in Aue ) was a wood carver and sculptor from the Ore Mountains .

Attending school, work, family

Emil Teubner is the son of a small farmer and had seven siblings. Even as a child he had to help out in his father's small farm to produce enough food for the large family. His talent for drawing was already noticed in elementary school when, instead of solving arithmetic problems, he painted a harness on his slate. His father had no understanding of the talent and sent Emil to Johanngeorgenstadt, where he first worked as a miner boy and later as a coiler and apprentice on the Wilder Mann mine . Despite the hard work that often lasted up to 12 hours, Teubner often drew scenes from the mining industry on a blackboard in the colliery hall. From 1897 he worked as an unskilled worker in the wood grinding shop ( cellar grinding shop ) in the Steinbachtal near Erlabrunn . He then moved to Aue, where he started a family and found work in a metal goods factory. He was active as a SPD member and trade union official. At the outbreak of the First World War , the attitude of some SPD functionaries led him to cancel the party newspaper. In 1919 he joined the KPD .

Emil Teubner had two sons - Hans Teubner and Kurt Teubner . Hans later became politically active in the KPD and had to emigrate in the 1930s. Like his father, Kurt became a painter and graphic artist.

Development into an artist

Emil Teubner began his artistic career in 1910, when he started carving, mainly because of the urgency of his children. He wanted to make a Christmas mountain with his own figures and the necessary mechanics. This first Christmas mountain later became famous beyond the borders of his hometown. In 1924 he finally gave up his factory work and worked as a freelance wood carver and stone sculptor from then on.

Teubner's folk art works were also soon known abroad. A Soviet magazine informed its readers as early as 1929 about the workers sculptor Emil Teubner. He became a member of the Auer Museum Association, which acted as a representative of the artists. His pieces, with a cleverly chosen choice of themes, and the well-done depictions, particularly inspired the workers. That was then a thorn in the side of the National Socialists , they excluded him from the museum association, one of his works was requisitioned. Emil Teubner stayed in Aue.

In 1945 Teubner's works could be shown to the public again: In the Logenhaus on the Bahnhofsbrücke, together with paintings and graphics by other artists, a first exhibition took place under the motto Liberated Art . Teubner was now able to work freely again and also dedicated himself to the new beginning in society after the Second World War. This first exhibition was followed by many more work exhibitions in later years, such as the one on the occasion of the 800th anniversary of the city of Aue in the Art Alt Aue art gallery .

Honors

Emil Teubner is an honorary citizen of the city of Aue. On the Brünlasberg in Aue there is a memorial stone with his life dates, a street in Aue was named after him. On his 70th birthday he was made an honorary senator by the Dresden Art Academy . Johanngeorgenstadt honored him by installing a plaque on the house where he was born in Steinbach.

Works

• Dismissal , 1922. A wooden figure, holding a coffee mug in one hand and a piece of paper in the other, over which he bends.
• Figures in the Stadtbad Aue
• Sculptures at the Sonnenhof
• Wooden figures: cash register revision, dismissal, difficult lighting of a pipe, hunger belt, heavy burden, roofer, storm, on the go, bismuth buddy, Erika u. a.

literature

• Emil Teubner, a sculptor from the people , Aue 1935
• Wolfgang Meyer: The wood carver Emil Teubner from the Ore Mountains. Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1960
• Council of the Aue District, Culture Dept. (ed.): Klaus Walther, Manfred Blechschmidt : Emil Teubner, on the occasion of his 100th birthday in 1977 , Aue 1977
• Evelin Bräuer: Emil Teubner In: Urania Universum , Volume 3, Leipzig / Jena 1957, pp. 95-101

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} Manfred Blechschmidt, Klaus Walther: Berglandmosaik. A book from the Erzgebirge. Greifenverlag zu Rudolstadt 1969, pp. 72–75
2. ↑ Aue, Mosaic Stones of History , page 204; Ed. Stadtverwaltung Aue, printer and publisher Mike Rockstroh, Aue, 1997.