Erwin Scheerer

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Erwin Scheerer (born March 26, 1905 in Ludwigsburg ; † February 21, 1984 there ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Scheerer remained loyal to his Swabian homeland all his life, although he enjoyed a good reputation as a sculptor all over Germany.

Artistic creation

The artist created numerous monuments on behalf of state institutions. He participated in the construction of the war memorial in the city of Heilbronn . In Hoheneck (independent until 1926, now part of Ludwigsburg) Scheerer created a sculpture on the Neckar Bridge on the Hoheneck side. It shows the larger than life bronze figure of a wreathed, unclothed young man, from whose outstretched hand a falcon is about to fly. Other works by the artist in Ludwigsburg: teacher and pupil , teacher and pupil , worker , St. Christophorus , girl with jug , Hans Klenk , river god . On April 23, 1958, Scheerer erected the Max Planck Memorial in Kiel on the site where the scholar's house once stood for the hundredth birthday of Max Planck .

  • Max Planck Monument (01) (26536383656) .jpg
  • Max Planck Monument (04) (26289733940) .jpg
  • Max Planck Monument (03) (26562555525) .jpg

It shows a bust of M. Planck and an inscription on the front. On the side surfaces there is an appreciation of the life and work of the honorary citizen of the city of Kiel and the honorary senator of the University of Kiel as well as a quote from a late speech by the scientist.

Other works

  • Ludwigsburg, Aldinger Strasse: Hartwig fountain
  • Ludwigsburg: Fountain with a semi-sculptural angel figure on the outer wall of the new Israelite cemetery.
  • Ludwigsburg-Eglosheim, Tammer Straße: wall fountain at the Hirschberg School (1954)

literature

  • Gert K. Nagel: Swabian artist lexicon : from the baroque to the present, art & antiques, 1986, p. 103
  • Andreas Klimt, Michael Steppes (ed.): General artists ' dictionary, bio-bibliographical index A – Z, vol. 8, KG Saur Verlag, 2009, p. 751
  • Matthias Krüger, Isabella Woldt (ed.): In the service of the nation : Identity foundations and identity breaks in works of the visual arts, Akademie Verlag, 2011, p. 295
  • Martin Papenbrock : Degenerate Art, Exile Art, Resistance Art in West German Exhibitions after 1945. An annotated bibliography . Publishing house and database for the humanities, 1996, p. 522
  • Günther Bergan u. a. (Ed.): Ludwigsburg Art Guide . Ludwigsburg 2009
  • Klaus Hoffmann: The old Hoheneck . Hackenberg, 2003

Web links

Commons : Erwin Scheerer  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Günther Bergan u. a. (Ed.): Ludwigsburger Kunstführer, Ludwigsburg 2009, pp. 32f., 43, 44, 53, 82, 87, 91, 106
  2. ^ Günther Bergan: Ludwigsburg fountain and the beginnings of the municipal waterworks . Ludwigsburg 2014. p. 63.
  3. ^ Günther Bergan: Ludwigsburg fountain and the beginnings of the municipal waterworks . Ludwigsburg 2014. p. 80.
personal data
SURNAME Scheerer, Erwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigsburg
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1984
Place of death Ludwigsburg