Ernst Yelin

Ernst Yelin (born March 5, 1900 in Stuttgart ; † 1991 ibid) was a German sculptor .

Yelin came from a Stuttgart artist family. His father was the church painter Rudolf Yelin the Elder (1864–1940), his brother the glass painter Rudolf Yelin the Younger (1902–1991).

Ernst Yelin attended the Stuttgart School of Applied Arts and from 1922 to 1927 the Stuttgart Art Academy under Ludwig Habich . Around 1922, during the inflation , he worked as a creator of portrait plaques. After graduating from the academy, he worked in his father's company and created tombs, garden figures and war memorials for private and public assignments, specializing in particular in relief sculptures .

His first major commissions in 1926 included the restoration of the Nikolauskapelle in Calw together with his brother Rudolf . By winning competitions, he received orders for the war memorial in Sontheim and the war memorials in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt and Metzingen , as well as soldier paintings at the barracks in Reutlingen and numerous fountains and sculptures for public spaces. In addition to these large-format works, he has also dealt with erotic small sculptures, around 40 of which are in the collection of the Kunstverein Bonn.

Works in public space

• War memorial at the Munster cemetery in Stuttgart-Munster
• Sculpture “The good comrade” in the Sontheim war memorial erected in 1933
• Crucifix (1949) in the Dionysius Church in Böblingen
• Reconstruction of the harbor market fountain (1955) in Heilbronn
• Bronze figure of Christ (1958) in the Johanneskirche in Wannweil

literature

• HO Roecker: The Yelin family of artists. In: Schwäbisches Heimatbuch 1939. Verlag JF Steinkopf , Stuttgart 1939.

Web links

• Erotic small sculptures by Ernst Yelin in the Kunstverein Bonn

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  Nikolaikapelle Calw (restoration 1926)

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  Sculpture in the Sontheim War Memorial (1933)

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  Heilbronn harbor market fountain (1955)