Friedrich Lommel (sculptor)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Friedrich Paul Eugen Lommel (born May 26, 1883 in Erlangen , † September 23, 1967 in Otterkring ) was a German medalist and sculptor .

life and work

Friedrich Paul Eugen Lommel's parents were the physicist Eugen von Lommel and Luise Friederike Caroline Lommel, b. Hegel. Lommel enrolled at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts in 1903 . Together with Bernhard Klinckerfuß , Paul Roloff , Emil Thoma , Karl Hermann Müller-Samerberg and Paula Rösler, he co-founded the Chiemsee artists' association Die Welle . As part of his more than twenty-year membership in the Munich Secession Artists' Association, Lommel regularly took part in the exhibitions of the forerunners of the Great German Art Exhibition in Munich, in the 1920s in the Glaspalast , in the 1930s and 1940s in the Neue Pinakothek and after The Haus der Kunst opens there from 1937. The exhibition catalogs of the exhibitions show this almost completely. But despite his lively exhibition activity, his teaching activities and his secular and sacred works in public spaces, Lommel's artistic work went largely unnoticed after his death. There are two reasons for this: One is his conservative aesthetic conception, which fell out of time in the 1920s. For comparison: In the catalog of the German Art Exhibition in Munich 1930 in the Glaspalast, under the heading Munich Secession z. B. about 30 works by Olaf Gulbransson , 40 works by Kollwitz , about 20 works by Emil Nolde , 6 work of Max Liebermann , 5 work of Max pitchstone , 7 works of Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and 10 work of Max Slevogt to to name only the most important representatives of the modern age, but only one plaster sculpture (Diana) by Lommel. Another reason for the disregard after the Second World War is his state-compliant art under National Socialism . He exhibited every year at the Great German Art Exhibition 1937–1944, as the digital catalog raisonné shows, while many of his aforementioned colleagues fell under the Degenerate Art of the Third Reich. In 1949 at the First Munich Art Exhibition (successor to the Great German Art Exhibition) in the Haus der Kunst, Lommel was then only represented with a sculpture of children playing , although he remained a member of the Munich Secession until the mid-1950s.

Works in public space

  • Bayreuth, Wittelsbacher Fountain

  • Prien a. Chiemsee, market fountain

  • Gauting, Christ Church , entrance portal with four evangelists by Friedrich Lommel

  • Prien a. Chiemsee, Christ Church , group of figures Jesus on the cross with Maria and Johannes by Friedrich Lommel

literature

  • Mortimer G. Davidson: Art in Germany 1933–1945. Tübingen, Vol. 1, 1988, p. 472.
  • Fritz Aigner: Painter on the Chiemsee. Prien, without publisher, 1983., ISBN 7-89456-373-0 .
  • Josef Hofmiller: Hiking pictures and pilgrimages. Rauch Verlag, Im Chiemgau.
  • Munich art exhibition in 1924 in the Glaspalast. Official catalog. Knorr & Hirth, Munich, undated, p. 78
  • Munich art exhibition in 1928 in the Glaspalast. Official catalog. Knorr & Hirth, Munich 1928, Munich Secession p. 17.
  • German art exhibition Munich 1930 in the Glaspalast. Official catalog. Knorr & Hirth, Munich 1930; P. 47.
  • Great Munich Art Exhibition 1934; in the Neue Pinakothek (glass palace exhibition). Official catalog. Knorr & Hirth, Munich, o. JS 23.
  • Great Munich Art Exhibition 1935; Glaspalastausstellung, Neue Pinakothek. Official catalog. Knorr & Hirth, Munich 1935, p. 24.
  • Great Munich Art Exhibition 1936; Glaspalastausstellung, Neue Pinakothek. Official catalog. Knorr & Hirth, Munich 1936, p. 24.
  • Great German Art Exhibition 1940; in the House of German Art in Munich. Official exhibition catalog. Knorr & Hirth, Munich 1940, p. 59.
  • Great German Art Exhibition 1943; in the House of German Art in Munich. Official exhibition catalog. Bruckmann, Munich 1943, p. 45.
  • Great German Art Exhibition 1944; in the House of German Art in Munich. Official exhibition catalog. Bruckmann, Munich 1944, p. 45.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Research platform on the "Great German Art Exhibitions" 1937–1944. Retrieved May 14, 2018 .
  2. ^ L. Forrer: Biographical Dictionary of Medallists . Lommel, Friedrich. tape VII . Spink & Son Ltd, London 1923, p. 561 (English).
  3. ↑ Lommel, Friedrich in: Deutsche Biographie , accessed on March 28, 2014.
  4. ^ Matriculation book of the Munich Art Academy. Retrieved May 14, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Catalog raisonné of works by Lommel at the Great German Art Exhibitions 1937–1944. Retrieved May 14, 2018 .

Web links

Other sources

  • Place and date of death: Information on the regulatory and registry office in Rimsting
personal data
SURNAME Lommel, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lommel, Friedrich Paul Eugen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and medalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH gain
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 1967
Place of death Otterkring