Franz Yellow

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Franz Gelb (born September 7, 1890 in Mannheim ; † January 2, 1948 there ) was a German sculptor . He mainly created figurative sculptures.

Life

Very little is known about the life of Franz Gelbs. He enjoyed his training in 1906 at the wood carving school in Furtwangen, after which he trained as a stone sculptor. Until 1914 he worked with the Mannheim sculptor Wilhelm Ballmann and with Hermann Taglang until December 1916. He created numerous sculptures in public spaces in Mannheim. These include a fountain in the Erlenhof residential complex, architectural decorations at the Richard Böttger nursing home and mother and child at the Albrecht Dürer School in Mannheim.

Before the Second World War, the Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim owned three sculptures, the whereabouts of which are unclear. In 1920 the exhibition of works by the Mannheim artists Franz Gelb and Kurt Lauber took place there. The sculpture Despair and several of Yellow's drawings were confiscated in 1937 as "Degenerate Art".

The Franz-Gelb-Weg in Mannheim-Neuhermsheim was named after him.

Works

Franz Gelb: Desperation, artificial stone, before 1921. Illustration from the catalog "Das Badische Kunstschaffen", Karlsruhe 1930
  • before 1920: Sinnende (stone cast)
  • before 1921: bathers (artificial stone), height 63 cm
  • before 1921: Despair (artificial stone), height 47 cm
  • before 1922: mourners (artificial stone), height 180 cm
  • before 1925: mourners (pear tree)
  • before 1925: dancer (pear tree)
  • before 1925: mother and child (pear tree)
  • before 1925: fight (stone cast)
  • 1926: War memorial , Otto-Siffling-Straße in Mannheim List of monuments in Mannheim
  • around 1927: Young woman , figurative architectural decoration on the residential building Mühldorferstrasse 8 in Mannheim, larger than life
  • around 1927: mother with child , figurative architectural decorations at the Albrecht Dürer School in Mannheim, larger than life
  • 1930: Self-portrait (bronze), height 44.5 cm, Kunsthalle Mannheim, acquired in 1936
  • 1931: Deer , Zierbrunnen, Donarstrasse 18 in Mannheim
  • 1932: Seated female nude (stone cast), height 43 cm, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
  • 1938: Farewell and Death (red sandstone), reliefs at the gate to Ehrenfeld at the main cemetery in Mannheim
Franz Gelb: Reh, 1931, Donarstrasse Mannheim-Gartenstadt

literature

  • Municipal art gallery Mannheim. Provisional directory of the painting and sculpture collection. Johannes May, Mannheim 1928.
  • Hans-Jürgen Buderer, Karoline Hille: Degenerate Art. Confiscation actions in the Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim 1937. Städtische Kunsthalle, Mannheim 1987, ISBN 3-89165-066-3 . (= Art + documentation , 10.)
  • Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe: Catalog of the sculptures. Karlsruhe 1994.
  • Andreas Schenk: Architectural Guide Mannheim. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-496-01201-3 .
  • The Brockhaus Mannheim. 400 years of the city of squares. The encyclopedia. Bibliographisches Institut & FA Brockhaus, Mannheim 2006, ISBN 978-3-7653-0181-0 .
  • Yellow, Franz . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 51, Saur, Munich a. a. 2006, ISBN 3-598-22791-4 .
  • Inge Herold, Ulrike Lorenz, Stefanie Patruno (eds.): Masterpieces. Kunsthalle Mannheim. Wienand, Cologne 2013.

Web links

Commons : Franz Gelb  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ No. 296 in the catalog of the 15th exhibition of the German Association of Artists in Chemnitz in 1920
  2. ↑ No. 269 in the directory of the painting and sculpture collection of the Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim from 1928, acquired in 1921
  3. ↑ No. 270 in the directory of the painting and sculpture collection of the Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim from 1928, acquired in 1921
  4. ↑ Illustration on p. 155 in Buderer & Hille: Degenerate Art - Confiscation Actions in the Municipal Art Hall Mannheim 1937
  5. ↑ No. 268 in the directory of the painting and sculpture collection of the Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim from 1928, acquired in 1922
  6. ↑ No. 481 in the catalog of the Großdeutsche Kunstausstellung in Darmstadt in 1925
  7. ↑ No. 482 in the catalog of the Großdeutsche Kunstausstellung in Darmstadt in 1925
  8. ↑ No. 483 in the catalog of the Großdeutsche Kunstausstellung in Darmstadt in 1925
  9. ↑ No. 480 in the catalog of the Großdeutsche Kunstausstellung in Darmstadt in 1925
  10. ↑ Illustration p. 256 in Wilfried Rößling: Stilstreit und Führerprinzip - Artists and Work in Baden 1930-1945
  11. ↑ Figure 175, p. 264 in: Meisterwerke - Kunsthalle Mannheim
personal data
SURNAME Yellow, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH January 2, 1948
Place of death Mannheim