Franz Mikorey (sculptor)

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Grave of Franz Mikorey in the Munich-Solln cemetery

Franz Mikorey (born December 30, 1907 in Dessau , † September 17, 1986 in Munich ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Franz Mikorey spent his childhood in Partenkirchen and attended the local wood carving school. From 1925 to 1930 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under Josef Wackerle , with whom he was a lifelong friend. He had a studio in Bogenhausen .

During the time of National Socialism , Mikorey's works were regularly represented in the Great German Art Exhibition . B. 1942 with the relief sun god .

After the Second World War, Mikorey u. a. President of the Munich Secession, which was re-established in 1946, and member of the large art exhibition at Haus der Kunst München e. V. In 1969 he was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit .

Mikorey's father was the general music director Franz Mikorey , his grandfather the opera singer Max Mikorey (1850-1907). The psychiatrist Max Mikorey (1899–1977) was his oldest brother.

Franz Mikorey died in Munich in 1986 and is buried in the Solln cemetery.

Works

Relief on Maximiliansplatz 13
Rosselenker, Goethestrasse in Munich

Mikorey worked figuratively in stone, bronze and wood. Typical motifs of his sculptures are animals, often horses. In addition to large reliefs and sculptures in public spaces, he created miniatures and numerous portraits of well-known contemporaries. Those portrayed included Rupprecht von Bayern , Richard Strauss , Hans Pfitzner , Carl Orff , Richard Riemerschmid , Feodor Lynen , Fritz Kortner , Adolf Hartmann , Johannes Steinhoff , Josef Ratzinger , Peter von Siemens and Rolf Rodenstock .

  • Memorial for prisoners of war who have not yet returned (in the arch under the old town hall of Munich ), 1954, relief
  • Father-Son Fountain (Passage to the Cathedral, Weinstrasse 3, Munich), 1957, Serpentino, bronze
  • Double bowl fountain (inner courtyard of the Bayerische Staatsbank, Prannerstr. 2, Munich), 1960
  • Hygieia (in front of the LMU Hygiene Institute , Pettenkoferstraße, Munich), 1961, bronze
  • Genii over the proscenium boxes of the National Theater (Max-Joseph-Platz 2, Munich), before 1963
  • Memorial fountain and reliefs for Leo von Klenze and Friedrich von Gärtner (arcades of Ludwigskirche, Ludwigstrasse 20, Munich), 1964
  • Girl with pot. (Private property), height 24.5 cm, bronze
  • Vogerl in autumn. (Private property), 1973, 27 cm × 22 cm, bronze relief with gold patina
  • Stele with reliefs in memory of Bertolt Brecht (in the schoolyard of the Bertolt-Brecht-Gymnasium , Munich-Pasing), 1974
  • Jumping horses (Herzog-Wilhelm-Str. 24, Munich, installed in 1974); first installation in 1934 on Tassiloplatz in the Au
  • Man and horse. (Private property), 1975, height 32 cm, bronze with gray patina
  • Madonna (above the entrance to the main LMU building. Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, Munich)
  • Relief at Bankhaus Reuschel & Co. (Maximiliansplatz 13, Munich)
  • Rosselenker (in front of the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Goethestraße 29–31, Munich), bronze

literature

  • Bronzes. Text: Carl Albrecht Haenlein. Starczewski, Munich 1967.
  • Franz Mikorey. [Drawings, sculptures], Starczewski, Höhr-Grenzhausen near Koblenz 1979, ISBN 3-7981-0048-9 .
  • Franz Mikorey. Exhibition February 26 - April 12, 1986, Kunsthaus Bühler, Stuttgart. Kunsthaus Bühler, Stuttgart 1986.
  • Mikorey, Franz. In: Künstlerlexikon des Werdenfelser Land - text excerpt from over 4900 short biographies. Antiquariat Benkert, archived from the original on September 12, 2011 ; Retrieved September 3, 2013 .

See also

Web links

Commons : Franz Mikorey (sculptor)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Great German Art Exhibition 1942 in the House of German Art in Munich, July until further notice . Bruckmann, Munich 1942. p. 54  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. and 68  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / spkkunstbibliothek-cdm.gbv.de  @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / spkkunstbibliothek-cdm.gbv.de  
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Ingrid Sand: Franz Mikorey. In: Solln artists' colony. (= Sollner booklet , No. 22). Year of publication unknown, sollner-hefte.de
  3. ^ Josef Hugo Biller, Hans-Peter Rasp: Munich Art & Culture. City guide and manual . 15th completely revised edition. Ludwig, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-7787-5125-5 , p. 240 .
  4. ^ Juliane Reister: Fountain art & water games . Walks in 10 Munich districts. München-Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-937090-26-9 , pp. 18 .
  5. ^ Biller / Rasp: Munich Art & Culture . 2003, p. 328 .
  6. ↑ Claudia Mayr, Martha Schad : Women in bronze and stone . Stiebner, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8307-1043-1 , pp. 69 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  7. ^ Biller / Rasp: Munich Art & Culture . 2003, p. 260 .
  8. ↑ a b c Franz Mikorey. Sales results. Artnet Worldwide Corporation, accessed August 26, 2012 .
  9. ↑ Helga Pfoertner: Living with history. Volume 1, Literareron, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-89675-859-4 , p. 18 ( PDF; 1.1 MB ( Memento from April 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ))
  10. ^ Biller / Rasp: Munich Art & Culture . 2003, p. 158 .
  11. ^ Journal Die Kunst für alle, 57. 1941–1942, p. 174
  12. ↑
    Commons : Franz Mikorey (sculptor)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Mikorey, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Dessau
DATE OF DEATH 17th September 1986
Place of death Munich