Ewald Schmahl
Ewald Schmahl (born February 23, 1874 in Elberfeld (now part of Wuppertal ), † January 31, 1931 ) was a German sculptor .
Life
The "Kaiser Scholarship" completed a degree at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf , after which he spent two years in Italy (mainly in Florence).
As a volunteer participant in the First World War , Schmahl was wounded. He was friends with the German-Jewish poet Else Lasker-Schüler .
Schmahl ran a studio in Elberfeld, in which he made numerous busts, memorial plaques and larger sculptures, mostly on private contract. His son, the sculptor Harald Schmahl , took over this studio after his father's death.
Work (selection)
At the turn of the century, Ewald Schmahl took part in the artistic execution of the Swiss Federal Post Office building in Bern as well as in the facade design of the Frankfurt theater . In Wuppertal he was involved in the artistic design of the Concordia society house in Barmen and the Cronenberg town hall .
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His work includes:
- Zeppelin relief
- Made from "Kararifchem marble", to "remember the great long-distance journey".
- Bronze plaque on the Albert Leo Schlageter monument in Elberfeld (now part of Wuppertal ), inaugurated in 1927 .
- The monument on the former street Am Walde , which was renamed Schlageterstraße in 1933 and Am Sandholz in 1938 , was the first Schlageter monument in Germany. In April 1959, the remains of the monument were demolished after the bronze parts had already disappeared after the Second World War .
- Hindenburg memorial stone at the military hospital of the Fatherland Women's Association from 1915, on the Hardt in Elberfeld .
- A bronze Hindenburg plaque was attached to the upper part of the approximately 3 meter high memorial stone. At the foot of the hill on which it was built there was a plaque with a dedication. No traces of the memorial stone or any images have been found so far, it probably had to make way for the extension of the later Red Cross Hospital and today's Haus Hardt care center.
rating
In his diaries, Joseph Goebbels described Ewald Schmahl as a “talker, little Napoleon. Dear, familiar. Used to lead the communists into the fire. Brave fellow. But not an artist. "
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Udo Garweg: Wuppertaler Künstlerverzeichnis, Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal 2000, pp. 345–346
- ↑ a b Jan Niko Kirschbaum: Hindenburg memorial stone at the military hospital of the Fatherland Women's Association on the Hardt , September 3, 2012 → online
- ^ Wolfgang Springmann: Else Lasker-Schüler and Wuppertal. 1962, p. 54 → online
- ↑ Martina Thöne: Sculptor Harald Schmahl: Memories of the eternal soul seeker. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung of June 29, 2012 → online
- ^ Die Woche: Moderne Illustrierte Zeitschrift , Volume 1; Volume 11. Verlag A. Scherl, 1909, p. 259 → online
- ^ Die Umschau , Volume 13. H. Bechhold Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1909. P. 257 → online
- ↑ Jan Niko Kirschbaum: Albert-Leo-Schlageter Monument , January 7, 2013 → online
- ↑ Joseph Goebbels , Elke Fröhlich (Ed.): The Diaries of Joseph Goebbels , Part 1, Volume 1. Institute for Contemporary History, KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-598-23740-5 , p. 245 → online
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmahl, Ewald |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 23, 1874 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Elberfeld |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 31, 1931 |