Georg Gröne

Georg Heinrich Gröne (born March 11, 1864 in Dresden , † October 4, 1935 in Saalhausen ) was a German sculptor .

biography

Georg Grönes grave in the Johannisfriedhof in Dresden

He began his training in 1878 with studies with the sculptor Oskar Rassau in Dresden. From 1878 to 1885 he studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden , most recently as a master student with Ernst Julius Hähnel . He used its neo-classical language of forms very often in his works. From 1887 to 1889 he was then a student of Johann Rößner in Nuremberg . From 1889 he lived permanently in Dresden.

He belonged to the Dresden artist circle and with the painters (including the Goppelner School ) Max Pietschmann, Georg Jahn, Georg Müller-Breslau , R. Besig, von Hugo, Otto Tischer, Anton Pepino, Hermann Prell , the sculptors Martin Engelke , Peter Pöppelmann , P. Fabricius, Bruno Fischer and the architects Kurt Diestel , Julius Graebner and Martin Pietzsch are among the artists who had their regulars' table in Dresden-Loschwitz from 1894 to 1898 in the restaurant "Mutter Unger's Weinstuben" . Gröne died in Dresden in 1935 and was buried on October 15, 1935 at the Johannisfriedhof in Dresden (grave location 4th arch, grave 61).

Works

Large figure of Margrave Otto the Rich on the Obermarktbrunnen in Freiberg

Memorial stone for Theodor Körner in Dresden-Klotzsche

• 1885: Large silver medal from the Academy for the figures "The Fisherman" (base relief), "Cain" and "Vulkan forges arrows for Cupid"
• 1891: Pulpit relief bearing a cross ( marble ) in the Martin Luther Church in Dresden
• 1895: Part of the crucifixion group with worshiping ironworker and miner in the church in Cainsdorf . These figures came up with the dogmatic clergy after the inauguration of the Cainsdorf church dispute , because they liked neither the work nor the interpretation of the pastor. Only when the Zwickau miners committed themselves to representation, sculptors and pastors, these figures were accepted.

“… Workers on the right and workers on the left and the crucified worker in the middle. ... "

- Pastor Moritz Schenkel at the inauguration of the crucifixion group in the Cainsdorf church in 1896

• 1896: Full figure of Margrave Otto the Rich at the market fountain on the Obermarkt in Freiberg, inaugurated on July 6, 1897.
• 1903: bronze statue "Repentance"
• 1906: Ensemble "Sonnenbad" also in bronze
• 1913–1914 Tomb for the Köhler family on the Johannisfriedhof Dresden- Tolkewitz made of diorite and sandstone with a relief "Christ with girl"
• 1916 memorial stone for Theodor Körner with inscription, relief and gable-shaped roof in Dresden-Klotzsche , park area Kieler Straße 47
• Parts of the altar of the Lukaskirche in Dresden
• Portal figures of the church in Wilsdruff and in 1905 the sandstone relief on the altar of the church in Jahnsbach in the Ore Mountains .

literature

• Otto-R.Wenzel: Georg Gröne. In: Local associations Loschwitz-Wachwitz e. V., Pillnitz e. V., Elbhangfest e. V. (Ed.): Artists on the Dresden Elbhang. Volume 2. Elbhang-Kurier-Verlag, Dresden 2007, ISBN 3-936240-09-4 .
• Willy Oskar Dreßler (ed.): Dressler's art manual . Volume 2: Fine arts - the book of the living German artists, archeologists, art scholars and art writers. Curtius, Berlin 1921–1934.
• Dressler's Art Yearbook: a reference book for German visual and applied Arts. Dressler, Rostock 1906–1913 / Haberland, Leipzig 1906–1907.
• Georg Dehio, Dehio Association (ed.): Handbook of German art monuments, Saxony: administrative districts of Leipzig and Chemnitz. Volume 2. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-422-03048-4 .
• Georg Gröne . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 57, Saur, Munich a. a. 2008, ISBN 978-3-598-22797-4 , p. 444.
• Ernst Sigismund : Gröne, Georg (Heinrich Gg.) . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 65 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Web links

• Image of the crucifixion group with chronicle of the church

Individual evidence

1. ↑ from the Elbhang-Kurier 10/1996 ( memento of the original from September 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ ^{a b} personal corr. With Mr. Otto-R. Wenzel (chairman of the Loschwitz-Wachwitz local association) v. May 11, 2009
3. ^ SLUB Dresden: The parish of Cainsdorf
4. ^ Johannisfriedhof, Wehlener Straße: Tomb of the Köhler family, sculptor Georg Gröne Photo by Frank Höhler on deutschefotothek.de