Georg Grasegger

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Georg Grasegger (born November 28, 1873 in Partenkirchen , † June 8, 1927 in Cologne ) was a German sculptor who accomplished his life's work in Cologne.

Life

Grasegger began his training in 1886 at the drawing and modeling school Partenkirchen and continued his studies in 1890 at the Royal School of Applied Arts in Munich . Since 1893 Wilhelm von Rümann was a student at the Munich Art Academy. In 1901 he was appointed to the Cologne School of Applied Arts . From 1913 until his death in 1927 he was a professor of sculpture and building sculpture at the Cologne factory schools with a focus on building sculpture . He was also a member of the City of Cologne Art Advisory Board and the Rhenish Advisory Center for War Honor and one of the founders of the Cologne artists' association style . In 1912 Grasegger was involved in the preparation of the Sonderbund exhibition . Grasegger exhibited some objects at the Werkbund exhibition in Cologne in 1914 . The sculptor preferred to make small and blue sculptures. In addition, he worked as a mural painter and designed medals and church paraments . From 1919 he worked at the Institute for Religious Art in Cologne.

His predominantly late expressionist works are z. B. can be found on the facades of the Munich Palace of Justice and the Cologne Museum of Decorative Arts . He created a war memorial for Cologne Cathedral ; The carnival fountain in Cologne also comes from him .

In Cologne-Longerich a street was named after Georg Grasegger.

Work (selection)

Statue of Ares on the building of the Barmer Bankverein in Cologne
"Rennsportbrunnen" / "Reiterbrunnen" in Castrop
  • 1903–1906: Capitals in the nave of St. Michael in Cologne
  • 1908: Bronze figure of Charlemagne at the Stollwerckhaus in Cologne, Hohe Strasse 164
  • 1910: Building decorations and figural reliefs at the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Cologne, Hansaring (destroyed in the war)
  • 1910: Competition design for a Bismarck national monument on the Elisenhöhe near Bingerbrück (together with the Cologne architect Clemens Klotz ; not awarded a prize)
  • 1911–1915: Sculpture decorations for the bank building of the Barmer Bankverein in Cologne, Unter Sachsenhausen 21–27
    Ancient heroes, scenes and figures; together with Josef Moest
  • around 1909: Bronze relief of Kaiser Wilhelm I at the district hall of Cologne, St.-Apern-Straße 19
  • after 1909: tomb for Julius Albert Becker in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne, with an early expressionistic head of Christ (corridor 60)
  • before 1912: "Bronze fountain" on an ornamental fountain in Gelsenkirchen
  • 1912: twelve figural reliefs ("character figures of the nationalities") on the gallery parapet in the atrium of the municipal museum in Neuss (destroyed in World War II, Napoleon relief recovered from the ruins later placed in front of the Clemens Sels Museum)
  • 1912: "Rennsportbrunnen", also called "Reiterbrunnen", in Castrop , market square
  • 1913: Carnival fountain in Cologne, Gülichplatz
  • 1913: Fischreiterbrunnen in Cologne-Zollstock
  • 1913: bronze sculpture Ludwig van Beethoven
  • 1913: Tomb for the wine merchant Peter Josef Thelen on the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (figure of a winemaker looking at a vine) (hallway 76A)
  • around 1914: Tomb for the couple Frieda and Adolf Fischer , donors of the Museum of East Asian Art , on the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (hallway 76A)
  • around 1914: Building decorations on the portal of the new town hall in Schwerte
  • 1915–1916: Statues for the high altar and Joseph's chapel in the parish church of St. Dionysius in Essen-Borbeck
  • 1919; Warrior memory in Cologne Cathedral
  • 1920–1922: Building sculpture on the administration building of Basalt AG in Linz am Rhein
  • 1927: War memorial in Hindenburgpark in Cologne (eagles and plaques)
  • 1930: Sculptures Kentaur and Najadae on the Rautenstrauchkanal in Cologne ( completed by Eduard Schmitz based on Grasegger's designs )

and undated:

  • Sculpture father Rhine

  • Centaur and Najadae at the Rautenstrauchkanal

  • Fischreiterbrunnen, Cologne-Zollstock

  • Friedenspark, war memorial (eagle)

  • Athene (Unter Sachsenhausen, Cologne)

  • Figure decorations (Town Hall Schwerte)

  • Tomb Fischer (Melaten Cemetery)

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1896, 1899, 1901, 1911 Munich Glass Palace
  • 1905, 1912, 1918 Great art exhibition in Berlin
  • 1907 International Art Exhibition Mannheim
  • 1914 Werkbund exhibition in Cologne

student

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ulrich S. Soénius (Ed.), Jürgen Wilhelm (Ed.): Kölner Personen-Lexikon. Greven, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-7743-0400-0 , p. 190.
  2. ↑ a b c Susanne Kreitz: A Bavarian sculptor in Cologne. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. May 13, 2016, p. 28.
  3. ↑ Max Schmid (ed.): One hundred designs from the competition for the Bismarck National Monument on the Elisenhöhe near Bingerbrück-Bingen. Düsseldorfer Verlagsanstalt, Düsseldorf 1911. (n. Pag.)
  4. ↑ Dieter Klein-Meynen, Henriette Meynen, Alexander Kierdorf: Cologne economic architecture from the early days to reconstruction . Wienand-Verlag, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-87909-413-6 , p. 212-213 .
  5. ↑ Josef Abt, Joh. Ralf Beines, Celia Körber – Leupold: Melaten. Cologne graves and history . Greven, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-7743-0305-3 , p. 162 .
  6. ↑ Christian art . 8th year 1911, p. 49.
  7. ↑ Josef Müller: Grasegger, Georg . 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 14 : Giddens-Gress . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1921, p. 525 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  8. ↑ Helga Bittner: Quarrel about Neuss Napoleon. In: Neuss-Grevenbroicher Zeitung of January 2, 2012.
  9. ↑ mentioned as Reiterbrunnen in the Capital of Culture year project Fremde Impulse , accessed on January 7, 2017.
  10. ^ Birgit Schilling, Karl Heinz Thurz: Fountain in Cologne . JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 1988, ISBN 3-7616-0936-1 , p. 48 .
  11. ^ Georg Grasegger - sculptor and building sculptor - Denkmalplatz. In: Denkmalplatz. January 25, 2015, accessed July 21, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Josef Abt, Joh. Ralf Beines, Celia Körber – Leupold: Melaten. Cologne graves and history . Greven, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-7743-0305-3 , p. 226 .
  13. ↑ Susanne Kreitz: Museum will be closed until April 2014. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , No. 205 of September 4, 2013, p. 27.
  14. ↑ Josef Abt, Joh. Ralf Beines, Celia Körber – Leupold: Melaten. Cologne graves and history . Greven, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-7743-0305-3 , p. 102 .
  15. ^ René Zey: Parks in Cologne. A guide through the green spaces . Greven, Cologne 1993, ISBN 3-7743-0273-1 , p. 127 ff .
personal data
SURNAME Grasegger, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Partenkirchen
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 1927
Place of death Cologne