Ernst Unger (sculptor)

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Ernst Unger (full name Ernst Edgar Unger , born February 17, 1889 in Offenbach am Main , † August 30, 1954 ibid) was a German sculptor.

life and work

The iron man in Offenbach am Main was used to nail warfare

Ernst Unger was the son of an Offenbach innkeeper and butcher. At the age of 15 he attended the arts and crafts school, where Ludwig Enders was one of his teachers. He later worked as a master student under Fritz Boehle . Unger was a soldier in World War I and was wounded. A French grenade tore three fingers on his left hand. In 1915 under Hugo Eberhardt , he designed a linden wood figure of Götz von Berlichingen in the vocational training hospital for war invalids , which was used for war nails in Offenbach. It was erected and nailed on the Aliceplatz, was later housed in the technical teaching institutions and in 1932 in the local history museum and fell victim to the effects of the Second World War in 1943 .

After he had become a teacher in the vocational training hospital, Unger set up a “studio for fine and applied arts” and for cemetery art in 1919, which was initially located on Schlossstrasse, then at Mainstrasse 19 in Offenbach am Main. In 1921 he created the memorial plaques for those who died in the First World War in the French Reformed community of Offenbach. He created the logo of the leather goods company Karl Seeger based on a design by Ludwig Enders . Unger's sculptures also adorned the Reich Aviation Ministry in Berlin .

Main fisherman

In 1935 his bronze figure of a fisherman, later known as Offenbacher Mainfischer , was placed on a bridge driveway . In 1989 it was moved to the Carl Ulrich Bridge and dismantled in 2009 for renovation purposes. In December 2011, the statue, which was restored by the John Lohrmann Stahlhandwerk company in Offenbach-Bieber and again provided with the missing anchor, was placed in a new place at the newly designed crossing in front of the bridge.

Web links

Commons : Ernst Unger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Community letter October / November 2009. (PDF; 715 kB) In: frgo1699.de. French Reformed Congregation Offenbach am Main , October 2009, p. 9 , accessed on March 29, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b c Lothar. R. Braun: This year the “Mainfischer” will be 75 years old and will return from the metalworking shop. In: op-online.de . January 2, 2010, accessed March 29, 2016 .
  3. ↑ German art and decoration: illustr. Monthly booklet for modern painting, sculpture, architecture, home art and artistic work for women. In: digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de. February 3, 1916, accessed April 30, 2016 .
  4. ^ Dietlinde Munzel-Everling : War nails - Wehrmann in Eisen - Nagel-Roland - Iron Cross . ArchimediX GbR, Wiesbaden 2008, p. 28 ( munzel-everling.de (PDF) [accessed on March 29, 2016]).
  5. ↑ 1915: The Iron Man is revealed. Offenbach.de, April 18, 2008; accessed on April 30, 2016.
  6. ↑ A fisherman from the Main with oilskins and a southwest. In FAZ of December 23, 2011, page 53.
personal data
SURNAME Unger, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Unger, Ernst Edgar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Offenbach am Main , Germany
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 1954
Place of death Offenbach am Main , Germany