Franz Drexler

Fanz Drexler (born October 6, 1857 in Osterhofen , † June 13, 1933 in Munich ) was a German sculptor .

Franz Drexler: Pallas Athene (1906)

Franz Drexler: Soccer Player (1913)

Life

Franz Seraph Drexler grew up as the son of the businessman Johann Baptist Drexler and Josepha, née Humblinger, in Osterhofen in Lower Bavaria. From 1872 he completed an apprenticeship as a sculptor in Munich and graduated with a journeyman's examination. His entry into the Munich Art Academy is documented on October 16, 1878 , where he (presumably) trained as a sculptor with Wilhelm von Rümann , including in modeling and life drawing courses. He made trips to Nuremberg , Leipzig , Berlin and Cologne , then also to Brussels and Antwerp . In 1888 he acquired citizenship and homeland rights in Munich, married the Munich innkeeper's daughter Friederike Anna Neidlein and finally settled in Munich as a freelance sculptor. In 1899 he bought a home in Munich (Heßstrasse 35). The marriage had three children, Luise (* 1889), Elise Anna Konstantine (* 1891) and Johann Franz (* 1896), who died in October 1914 near Ypres.

Drexler was a member and exhibitor of the Munich Artists' Cooperative (MKG). In 1918 he was appointed Royal Professor. His hometown Osterhofen made him an honorary citizen and named the Professor Drexler Weg after him. The sculptor Julius Drexler, who was also born in Osterhofen and mainly works in Munich, was his nephew and student.

Drexler mainly worked in stone, more rarely in bronze, wood and ceramics. He prepared his designs with drawings, clay and plaster models. In 1889 he received a prize at the competition for the Wittelsbacherbrunnen and further recognitions for a peace memorial "From Great Times" (3rd prize, 1896) and fountains on Isartorplatz and Josefsplatz in Munich. He was also successful with his design for a Schiller monument in Nuremberg (1905). He received orders for busts and portraits as reliefs, architectural sculptures, the monumental sculpture of "Pallas Athene" (1906) and for the design of monuments, fountains, altarpieces as well as graves and plaques, among others for Cologne, Frankfurt am Main, Bonn, Mainz and Heilsberg in East Prussia. He showed drafts and small sculptures in bronze and ceramics (majolica) from 1903 at the latest on the occasion of the annual Munich exhibitions and, among other things, in the great art exhibition in Düsseldorf.

Works (selection)

• 1888: Madonna , Saint Joseph with Jesus child , side altar figures : Innerthal, Canton Schwyz, Switzerland, Saint Catherine .
• 1902: 10 facade figures, u. a. St Michael , Munich-Sendling, St Margarethen
• 1904: 5 figurative metopes for the Munich Volkstheater
• 1905: Design for the Schiller Monument in Nuremberg
• 1906: Pallas Athene , Munich, Maximiliansbrücke
• 1906: Sun Well, Munich
• 1909: Black ( humility ) tomb , Munich, Ostfriedhof
• 1911: bust of Heinrich Dall'Armi
• 1912: Luitpoldbrunnen, Osterhofen
• 1912: Höck tomb, Munich, forest cemetery
• 1913: Design for a Marienbrunnen in Osterhofen
• 1913: Prince Regent Luitpold Monument, Oberschleißheim
• 1915: Chapel altar, Angerburg, East Prussia
• 1916: Michael Schleifer's memorial grave, Niederraunau near Krumbach
• 1916: Christ in the grave , wood; Munich, Bürgersaal
• 1916: Karl Lipp tomb, Munich, Westfriedhof
• 1917: Portrait relief of Eugen Langen and Nikolaus Otto, Munich, Hall of Honor of the Deutsches Museum
• 1917: Oberwallner tomb, Haag / Upper Bavaria
• 1917: Petrus Canisius , whole figure, draft
• 1917: Memorial plaque for the son Hanns Drexler, fallen: Ypres, November 17, 1914
• 1923: Saint Joseph , niche figure: Munich, Asamkirche
• 1924: Patrona Bavariae with child ; 1925: Sacred Heart Figure ; 1930: St. Therese of the Child Jesus : Kempten, parish church of St. Lorenz
• around 1925: Our Lady Enthroned : Munich, Citizens' Hall, Lower Church

Participation in exhibitions (selection)

• Woman from the People , bronze bust: Munich Annual Exhibition 1905 in the Glaspalast, No. 1747.
• Grave figure : Munich Art Exhibition 1910 in the Glaspalast, No. 1484 (Fig. :)
• Glück , Bronze: Munich Art Exhibition 1911 in the Glaspalast, No. 464; Düsseldorf, Great Art Exhibition 1913.
• Spring , bronze plaque: Munich annual exhibition in the Glaspalast 1914, No. 529; Düsseldorf, Great Art Exhibition 1913.
• Faun with parrot , bronze: Munich annual exhibition in the Glaspalast 1917, No. 288.
• Pallas Athene / Siegfried / guitar player , bronzes: Munich annual exhibition 1918 in the Glaspalast, No. 311–13.
• Soccer player , bronze; Scherzo , Majolika: Munich Art Exhibition 1922 in the Glaspalast, No. 359–60 (ill.).
• Putte with lute , majolica: Munich art exhibition 1923 in the Glaspalast, No. 301, 302.
• Angels awaiting the resurrection , plaster of paris: Munich Art Exhibition 1930 in the Glaspalast, No. 565.

literature

• Ewald Bender: Drexler, Franz . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 9 : Delaulne-Dubois . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1913, p. 561-562 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
• Ludwig F. Fuchs: grave monuments from the Munich forest cemetery. Munich 1914.
• Wilhelm Zils: Franz Drexler (for his 60th birthday on October 6th). In: Journal of Christian Art. XIII (12), September 1, 1917, pp. 329-352 (fig.); 19, 1922/23, p. 153.
• Anton Geitner: The Christian tomb. Society for Christian Art, Munich 1922.
• The Christl. Art. 22, 1925/26, pp. 37, 39; 29, 1932/33, p. 293.
• Wilhelm Kosch (Ed.): The Catholic Germany. I, 1933.
• General artist lexicon . Volume 29: Donny – You. de Gruyter, Berlin 2001, p. 426.
• Siegfried Weiß : Art career aspiration. Painter, graphic artist, sculptor. Former students of the Munich Maximiliansgymnasium from 1849 to 1918. Allitera Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-86906-475-8 , pp. 425-426.

Web links

• ta-dip.de
• geschichtsverein-deggendorf.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 03593 Franz Drexler In: Matrikelbuch 1841–1884. matrikel.adbk.de (accessed on 30/12/16)