Georg Fuhg

Georg Fuhg (born October 29, 1898 in Mehlsack , East Prussia , † November 13, 1976 in Neumünster ) was a German sculptor and potter .

life and work

Monument gunners in the Lötzen city forest (2005)

Georg Fuhg was born as the son of the owner of a hard stone factory. He attended the preparatory institute and in 1919 passed the examination to become a primary school teacher . After three years he began studying with Hermann Brachert at the art and trade school in Königsberg in 1922 . As a freelance artist, he exhibited portraits and sculptures in Königsberg from 1927 . In stone and bronze he created the “riders” for Angerburg , the “gunners” for the Lötzen city forest , the monument to Johann Georg Hamann and many works on public buildings and squares. His best-known work was " Walther von der Vogelweide " as a seated figure in the Königsberg zoo .

During the Second World War he was wounded as a soldier, reached Schleswig-Holstein via Copenhagen in 1945 on the hospital ship "Sachsenwald" and reunited with his family in Thuringia . In 1950 the family moved to Neumünster . Georg Fuhg married Käte Wölki († 1968) in 1929.

After the war he created the life-size bronze sculpture of the Trakehner "Hessenstein" in Bad Pyrmont and busts of Agnes Miegel , Immanuel Kant and Nikolaus Kopernikus . He also designed the Königsberg Citizen Medal.

Renck's bust

He found a new home in Neumünster. He created many sculptures for the city, including in Rencks Park .

Honors

Culture Prize of the East Prussian Landsmannschaft (1964)

Web links

Commons : Georg Fuhg - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Georg Fuhg . In: East German Biography (Kulturportal West-Ost)
Obituary in Das Ostpreußenblatt (November 20, 1976) (PDF; 63 kB)
Trakehner Hessenstein

Individual evidence

^ Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon . Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1
↑ Georg Fuhg (1898–1976). In: History of Pieniężno - Sack of Flour. www.ostpreussen.net, accessed on August 1, 2018 .

personal data
SURNAME	Fuhg, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sculptor and potter
DATE OF BIRTH	October 29, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH	Flour sack
DATE OF DEATH	November 13, 1976
Place of death	Neumunster

[1] Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon . Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1

[2] Georg Fuhg (1898–1976). In: History of Pieniężno - Sack of Flour. www.ostpreussen.net, accessed on August 1, 2018 .