Erwin Dauner
Erwin Dauner (born March 13, 1894 in Geislingen an der Steige , † April 27, 1980 in Ludwigsburg ) was a German sculptor .
Life
Erwin Dauner was a son of the art sculptor Jakob Dauner. He graduated from secondary school and studied from 1910 to 1914 at the Stuttgart School of Applied Arts under Josef Zeitler . Dauner himself taught at this facility for two semesters, then apparently the First World War interrupted his artistic activity, which Dauner was only able to resume in 1918. In 1920 he finished his studies in Stuttgart.
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Dauner was mainly active in the interwar period and during the Third Reich and designed war memorials and other sculptures with a political background. He created the memorial for the Uhlan regiment in Ludwigsburg and the war memorial in the Friedrichshafen embankment. This memorial, which was originally intended for the Old Cemetery, was hewn out of tufa after Dauner's design won a competition and erected in 1930. It shows a wounded soldier who is putting on a bandage so that he can continue fighting. The monument, which was controversial from the start, was redesigned in 2004 as a private initiative. Six steles were set up around the round fountain in which Dauner's warrior figure stands, on which the victims of the Second World War in and from Friedrichshafen are also commemorated. In addition, the facility was supplemented by two boulders, on which perished refugees and people from different nations are remembered.
The memorial at the fraternity monument in Eisenach also had an eventful history. Soon after the end of the First World War, the German fraternity had plans to erect a memorial for the approximately 3,000 fallen fraternity members. In 1927 the price of this monument was set at a maximum of 60,000 to 70,000 Reichsmarks . At this point in time, a proposal by Wilhelm Kreis had already been rejected. A design by Wilhelm Wagner was also rejected in the following years because this sum was exceeded. In 1928 the maximum amount was even lowered to 30,000 Reichsmarks. Of the 43 drafts submitted in 1930, eight were shortlisted and three received honorary awards. Finally, a design was carried out that Dauner had worked on with Friedrich Haußer . The individual parts of the memorial made of Maulbronn travertine were carved and numbered in Dauner's workshop in Ludwigsburg and then assembled in Eisenach. The memorial was completed for the Boys ' Day in 1933 and was inaugurated on June 4, 1933, Whit Monday. The memorial stone in an open room below the fraternity memorial showed a naked youth armed with a sword between further raised arms with swords and an inscription that commemorated those who died in the First World War. Although the memorial survived the Second World War relatively unscathed, it was radically reduced on November 22, 1946 under the orders of the Allied Control Council . Since all elements that glorified militarism had to be removed, all that remained was Haußer's signature and the circle of his fraternity, Hilaritas. In the course of restoration work in 1992, an inscription was added, this time also to commemorate the victims of the Second World War.
Also gone is a tape that Dauner had created for the town of Ebersbach an der Fils' recreation and festival area in the “Wooden Rain”. The green area had been part of the development plan since 1925, but was only created in 1935 after a National Socialist councilor insisted. In 1938 the facility, which was named after Dietrich Eckart , was ready. On the front wall of the speaker and concert square, the inscription As a joint effort of all stands on National Labor Day 1937 / Dedicated to the denouncer of the Third Reich Dietrich Eckart / Completed in the year of the creation of Greater Germany on the National Labor Day 1938 , the Dauner was attached had designed. The mayor informed the municipal council of the upcoming renaming of the facility on May 12, 1945, but the considerations about a new name initially fizzled out. At the request of a member of the municipal council on July 5, 1946, however, the tape designed by Dauner was removed.
A curiosity from Dauner's workshop is the sculptural design of the entrance area of today's Mörike-Gymnasium in Ludwigsburg: next to the worker with a spade there was originally a pimp of the Hitler Youth with a drum. A redesign of the figure in 1947, ten years after the creation of the first version, turned the drum into a vine.
Dauner created the designs for a memorial for the fallen soldiers of the First and Second World War in the Stammheim cemetery (1953), for the memorial in the cemetery in Uhingen (before 1959) and for the memorial and memorial in the cemetery in Ditzingen (1960 ). The building erected in 1937 at Hafenmarkt 1 in Schwäbisch Hall shows sculptural jewelry by Dauner, as does the Kreissparkasse building on Schillerplatz in Ludwigsburg.
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Handwritten autobiographical notes by Dauner are in the Ludwigsburg Municipal Museum.
Web links
- Biographical information and pictures (PDF; 146 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ friedrichshafen.de: Geschichtspfad Neustadt ( Memento of the original dated February 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.klauskramer.de/Verlag/FN_jahrbuch%20Band%202/FN_jahrbuch_Band%202.html#Heike%20Vogel
- ↑ The memorial at the fraternity monument in Eisenach
- ↑ http://www.ebersbach.de/Der-Name-der-Gruenanlage.html
- ^ Denazified artwork ( Memento from September 12, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), Stuttgarter Zeitung from December 2, 2009
- ↑ http://www.stuttgart.de/item/show/180021
- ^ Ditzinger Anzeiger, July 23, 1960
- ↑ http://www.schwaebischhall.de/buergerstadt/geschichte/haeuserlexikon/gebaeudeververzeichnis.html?Detail=631
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dauner, Erwin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 13, 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Geislingen an der Steige |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 27, 1980 |
| Place of death | Ludwigsburg |