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Eugen Senge-Platten with his wife Alix Senge-Voss (painted by Werner Schramm , 1937)

Eugen Senge-Platten (born September 3, 1890 in Siedlinghausen , † March 30, 1972 ibid) was a Westphalian sculptor and painter.

Life and work

War memorial in Schmallenberg by Eugen Senge-Platten (1923)

Eugen Senge-Platten was born in Siedlinghausen in 1890. Senge-Platten spent his school days in Münster . There he attended elementary school, the cathedral school, the municipal high school and a modeling school. Then he began studying at the university there. After a year he broke off his studies in order to start training as a sculptor in Berlin in 1910 . After training at the Berlin Art Academy with Peter Breuer , he joined the Royal Clevesche FAR 43 as a war volunteer in 1914. After the end of the war, Senge-Platten returned to Münster to work there. Two years later he settled in Düsseldorf . There he rented a studio. In Düsseldorf he also met his future wife Alix Senge-Voss, a concert violinist from Petersburg. In 1923 Senge-Platten moved back to his home village, where he lived in seclusion. Because of the low demand for art, he ran a hand weaving mill there until 1934. In 1928 he married his partner Alix. She organized concerts with well-known musicians in her husband's studio. The so-called Siedlinghauser Kreis was created in this environment . This group, which was founded by the country doctor Schranz, included art experts, painters, writers, historians, lawyers, philosophers and local politicians. Contact was made with Konrad Weiß through the Freundeskreis , who had a great influence on the artist's works. Weiß, Schranz and Senge-Platten were friends. They went on cultural trips together. Senge-Platten was an officer during the Second World War. It was used in Italy and Africa. There he drew and watercolored his personal impressions. The war impressions also influenced the later years. Eugen Senge-Platten died on March 30, 1972 in Siedlinghausen. The Senge-Platten-Straße, in which the Catholic Church and the Siedlinghausen secondary school and the Siedlinghausen indoor swimming pool are affiliated, was named after him.

Works (selection)

Horse breaking down in front of the district building in Meschede
  • War memorial 1914-18 in Winterberg
  • War memorial 1914-18 in Schmallenberg (1923)
  • War memorial 1914-18 in Römershagen
  • Michaelsdenkmal in Assinghausen (1933)
  • Gate angel in the Marienthal monastery near Wesel (1939)
  • 1.60 meter high font for the Westfeld parish church (1951)
  • Jacob's fight with the angel in Ahaus Castle , Borken district (1954)
  • 2 × 2 m slate relief Das Wasser , Schmallenberg Youth Hostel (1962)
  • Horse breaking down in front of the district building in Meschede
  • Sculpture in front of the Olsberg secondary school

Some of his works are in the collection of the Slate Mining and Local History Museum in Schmallenberg .

literature

  • Egon Peifer: Eugen Senge-Platten , Schmallenberger Sauerland, Almanach 1990, Westphalian Slate Mining Museum Schmallenberg-Holthausen
  • Birgit Schulte: Eugen Senge plates for his 100th birthday sculptures, reliefs, drawings. History of the servant on Golgotha. Two ways of the cross by Eugen Senge-Platten (Holthausen exhibition). (Ed.) Egon Peifer, Grobbel-Verlag, 1990
  • Michael Senger: Traces of Eugen Senge-Platten , Schmallenberger Sauerland, Almanach 1989, Westphalian Slate Mining Museum Schmallenberg-Holthausen
  • Walter Warnach: Eugen Senge-Platten , Volume 34 - Monographs on Rhenish-Westphalian Art of the Present, Verlag Aurel Bongers, Recklinghausen, 1967
  • Konrad Weiß: A war memorial in the Sauerland. On the work of a Westphalian sculptor. Eugen Senge-Platten and his Michaelsdenkmal in Assinghausen.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Siedlinghauser Heimatstuben  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 6, 2012@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / siedlinghauser-heimatstuben.de  
  2. ↑ Realschule Olsberg ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 6, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.realschule-olsberg.de
personal data
SURNAME Senge-Platten, Eugen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist, painter, sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Siedlinghausen
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 1972
Place of death Siedlinghausen