Ferdinand Liebermann

Fountain girl with seal , 1930, Hiltenspergerstrasse, Munich-Schwabing

Ferdinand Liebermann (born January 15, 1883 in Judenbach , Sonneberg district , Thuringia ; † November 28, 1941 in Munich ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Born the son of a toy manufacturer, he attended the Sonneberg industrial school and learned modeling from Reinhard Möller . Liebermann then completed his artistic training in Munich at the Königliches Kunstgewerbeschule and the Academy . Study trips to Italy and France followed. In 1910 he received the Austrian State Medal for a small bronze . Subsequently, Liebermann received a professorship for monumental and portrait sculpture in Munich.

During the Nazi era , he received numerous government contracts and stood u. a. in high esteem with Adolf Hitler . As a city councilor for the “ capital of the movement ”, he was an advisor on art issues for the city of Munich . He modeled several portrait busts of Hitler, including one for the Munich City Hall. He was represented at the Great German Art Exhibitions in the Munich House of German Art with 16 works since 1938, including a bronze bust of Alfred Rosenberg , a portrait of Hitler and a sculpture Wille , on which a naked man is fighting a snake. Ferdinand Liebermann had also made a bronze bust of Hitler's niece Geli Raubal , of which Hitler had several casts set up in his apartments.

In 1941, the year he died, Ferdinand Liebermann was working on a Freikorps memorial project for the city of Munich. His work also includes architectural sculptures, monuments and fountains - for example on Hiltenspergerstrasse in Munich- Schwabing or in the Munich settlement of Neuhausen . Liebermann worked for Rosenthal AG from 1909 and was the most important figure designer in the early days of the art department of the plant. His well-known works include Philosophical Disput , Kleiner Bacchant , Faunbüste Schreck and the temple consecration .

His grandson is the cartoonist Erik Liebermann .

Works (selection)

Portrait head Adolf Hitler , bronze, 1936/37

literature

Liebermann, Ferdinand . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 23 : Leitenstorfer – Mander . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1929, p. 199 .
Hans Vollmer : General Lexicon of the Fine Artists of the 20th Century . Volume 2: E-I. EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 228.
Ilse Krumpöck: The sculptures in the Army History Museum. Vienna 2004, p. 107 f.

Web links

Commons : Ferdinand Liebermann - Collection of Images

Rosenthal Designer Portraits at Rosenthal

Individual evidence

↑ Ilse Krumpöck: The images in the Army History Museum. Vienna 2004, p. 107 f.
^ ^A ^b Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 366.
^ Army History Museum / Military History Institute (ed.): The Army History Museum in the Vienna Arsenal. Verlag Militaria, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-902551-69-6 , p. 131.

personal data
SURNAME	Liebermann, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	January 15, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH	Judenbach , Sonneberg District , Thuringia
DATE OF DEATH	November 28, 1941
Place of death	Munich

[1] Ilse Krumpöck: The images in the Army History Museum. Vienna 2004, p. 107 f.

[Klee366-2] A ^b Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 366.

[3] Army History Museum / Military History Institute (ed.): The Army History Museum in the Vienna Arsenal. Verlag Militaria, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-902551-69-6 , p. 131.