Frank Mehnert (sculptor)

Frank Mehnert , pseudonym Viktor Frank or Victor Frank (born May 23, 1909 in Moscow ; died March 29, 1943 at Staraja Russa ) was a German sculptor and writer .

Life

Bust of Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg in the German Resistance Memorial Center in the Bendlerblock in Berlin

Born in Moscow in 1909 at the time of the Russian Empire , Frank Mehnert learned sculpture as an autodidact . After being in Tübingen at the Eberhard Karls University began the study of law, he went to the time of the Weimar Republic in 1927 to Berlin , where he in the studio of Ludwig Thormaehlen a first portrait of the poet in 1929, Stefan George created, which he " [...] as a supervisor and companion ”until his death in 1933.

In Magdeburg , Mehnert created various portraits and drafts for monuments, some of which were rated as "[...] artistically rather irrelevant". As a sculptor in the George circle and through his friendship with Walther Greischel and sponsorship by Wilhelm-Adolf Farenholtz , Frank Mehnert created the statue of a Magdeburg pioneer out of limestone in 1939 - "[...] for which Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg was a model" - for the Magdeburg Pioneer Bridge , which was destroyed in the Second World War in 1942.

In the following year 1943 Mehnert fell in Russia at the age of 33.

literature

• Michael Stettler (Ed.): Memory of Frank. A life testimony , ed. on behalf of the Stefan George Foundation , Düsseldorf; Munich: Küpper formerly Bondi, 1968
  • 2nd, supplemented edition, Düsseldorf; Munich: Küpper vorm. Bondi, 1970, ISBN 3-7835-0030-3

Web links

Commons : Frank Mehnert  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Uwe Jens Gellner: Mehnert, Frank , one of the short biographies on the website of the University of Magdeburg [o. D.], last accessed on September 27, 2016
2. ↑ ^{a b} Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library