Ernst Hermann Graemer

Ernst Hermann Grämer (born August 6, 1899 in Heidenau near Dresden , † December 4, 1966 in Dresden ) was a German sculptor .

Life

After an apprenticeship as a modeller from 1914 to 1915, Grämer studied at the Royal School of Applied Arts under Adolf Sonnenschein and from 1919 to 1922 at the Art Academy under Selmar Werner in Dresden. In 1923 he received the Saxon State Prize and then worked as a freelancer.

Grämer was a member of the Reich Association of German Artists . In 1929 he became a member of the Dresden artist group ASSO . In the 1920s he went on a study trip to Paris with the painter Hanns Oehme . Before 1933 he also worked for the International Workers Aid (AHI) and produced commissioned works. In 1944 he created several life-size figures for the Indian Museum in Radebeul .

In February 1945, his studio and all of his works were lost in the air raids on Dresden .

After 1945, Grämer worked in the newly founded Kulturbund for the democratic renewal of Germany and as a Dresden city councilor. In 1947 he joined the Dresden artist group “ Das Ufer ”, which dissolved itself in 1952 as part of the formalism dispute. The members were recommended to join the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR (VBKD) controlled by the SED . Grämer was also involved in the art sales cooperative " Kunst der Zeit ", which was formed in 1953 .

From 1954 to 1966 he was employed as a restorer at the Institute and Museum for the History of the City of Dresden , but also created his own work.

Exhibitions

• 1926: International Art Exhibition Dresden
• 1942: Great Dresden Art Exhibition Painting Plastic Graphics , June 27th – 20th September 1942, Brühlsche Terrasse , Dresden
• 1944: Great German Art Exhibition , House of German Art in Munich (with the sculpture Boy with Fish )
• 1978: Revolution and Realism , Berlin in the Otto-Nagel-Haus (permanent exhibition), Berlin 1983/84, 1987 and 1990–1992.
• 1988: Art on the move, Dresden 1918–1933 , Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden , Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister

Works

• 1919: Whistling worker boy , bronze
• 1921/22: Little girl , bronze
• 1923: “I am hungry”; Bronze casting; Height 12.5 cm; Signature GR on the plinth ; 1975 purchase by the National Museums in Berlin; National Gallery, inventory no. B III 155.
• 1926: Children's fountain ; Jubilee horticultural exhibition in Dresden as part of the 1926 German Labor Show
• 1928: little brother and sister ; Bronze; Main catalog of the SLUB
• 1929: Whistling boy , bronze casting; 20 cm high; signature E.GR.29 on the plinth; Bought in 1975 by the National Gallery in Berlin, inventory no. B III 156; a second casting in the Museum of History of the City of Dresden (SMB-NG), bought in 1975 by the widow Grämer.

Mother with children

• 1930s: mother with children ; Sculpture originally set up in Hugo-Bürkner-Park , after a long period of storage since 2013 at Hepkeplatz in Dresden
• 1939: The bather , life-size bronze figure, in the entrance area of ​​the Stadtbad Mitte
• Badge Das Glück (child sits on a symbolic globe), cast bronze, 7.5 cm in diameter

literature

• Günter Meissner: General artist lexicon: The visual artists of all times and peoples. Vol. 60, KG Saur, Munich, ISBN 978-3-59822800-1 , p. 47
• Robert Thoms: Great German Art Exhibition Munich 1937–1944 . Directory of artists in two volumes, Volume II: Sculptors. Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-937294-02-5 .
• Jutta Schmidt et al. (Red.): Fine arts. Born in 1970, Issues 1–12 (also 672 S), Berlin, Henschelverlag, 1970, Lex. 8 °, with details on Ernst Grämer
• Peter Chmarowski: The small sculpture in Ernst Grämer's work . In: Scientific journal of the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald , Volume 19, 1970, Social and Linguistic Series, No. 1/2, p. 29 f.
• Peter Chmarowski: Early small sculptures by Ernst Grämer. In: Bildende Kunst Vol. 18, 1970, no. 5, p. 254 f.
• Exhibition catalog Revolution and Realism , Berlin 1978, p. 234; m. Fig .; Catalog number 267
• Exhibition catalog Kunst im Aufbruch , Dresden 1980, p. 253; m. Fig .;
• Exhibition catalog NG (Nagel-Haus), 1985, catalog number 142

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biographical information on Hanns Oehme with reference to the joint study trip , accessed May 14, 2012
2. ^ Wolfgang Seifert: Patty Frank. The circus, the Indians, the Karl-May-Museum , Karl-May-Verlag, 1998. p. 151
3. ^ ^{A b} Manuela Bonnke: Art in Production: Fine Arts and Nationally Owned Economy in the Soviet Zone / GDR . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, Weimar 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-35805-1 , pp. 129 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
4. ↑ History medals and plaques from the collection of the German Historical Museum (ed.) With the medal Das Glück and some biographical details by EH Grämer , accessed May 14, 2012
5. ^ Catalog for the Great Dresden Art Exhibition in 1942 with a list of all participating artists; published by the Dresdner Künstlerbund
6. ↑ ^{a b} Detailed information on Whistling Boy, 1929 , accessed May 14, 2012
7. ↑ Figure statuette whistling worker boy on deutschefotothek.de
8. ↑ Figure statuette little girl on deutschefotothek.de , accessed May 14, 2012
9. ↑ Figure and brief information on little brothers and sisters in the DF main catalog; Recording no .: df_hauptkatalog_0172807, data record no .: obj 32010559
10. ↑ Artwork embellishes Hepkeplatz and closes the gap. In: dresden.de. State capital Dresden, January 18, 2013, accessed on February 3, 2017 (press release).