Georg Grygo
Georg Grygo (born February 4, 1902 in Hamburg , † May 28, 1969 in Bremerhaven ) was a German sculptor.
biography
Grygo was the son of a union secretary. The family soon moved to Gdansk , where Grygo attended school from 1908 to 1913. His father organized the West Prussian bakers. After returning to Hamburg and completing school, he completed vocational training in shipbuilding at Blohm + Voss . From 1920 to 1925 he went to sea. He then attended painting and graphics courses at the Hamburg Adult Education Center , among others with Willi Lange . From 1931 to 1935 he received a scholarship that enabled him to study at the Hamburg State Art School . Arthur Illies and Johann Michael Bossard were among his teachers . As a freelance artist, he exhibited several times in the Hamburger Kunsthalle . He was not drafted into the Wehrmacht because he suffered from stomach ulcers. From 1941 he ran his own studio. In the same year he met his future wife Esther Hübner . When the Allies began to bomb Hamburg, he and his wife left the city in 1943 - with the sailing boat on the Elbe. When they reached Bederkesa Lake via the Elbe-Weser shipping route , they stayed in Padingbüttel . Grygo hired himself out to the farmers as a field worker and created sculptures on the side. Together with other pieces brought from Hamburg he exhibited them in the Göbel arts and crafts house in Cuxhaven . He participated in exhibitions of regional artists in Bremerhaven, namely in the fishing museum (1947) and in the art gallery (Christmas 1949). The Bremerhaven City Building Office employed him as a modeller in 1948 and gave him a room. He only drove to Padingbüttel on weekends. From 1950 he had a studio and apartment in the old fire station on Leher Markt. In 1967 he and his wife moved to Hafenstrasse 233. He died of a stroke at the age of 67 . The ashes were given to the lake.
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At the beginning of Grygo's work there are landscape watercolors, which were mainly created on sailing tours. Soon he was creating memorial stones , crucifixes , sculptures , busts , portrait heads and reliefs from artificial stone , marble and wood . He also devoted himself to pottery and lacquer art (animal and ship motifs). When art in construction was prescribed in the 1950s , Grygo received many commissions, for example in Bremerhaven, Cuxhaven, Nordenham , Eckwarderhörne and Itzehoe .
In Bremerhaven he left a crucifix in the Kreuzkirche (Bremerhaven) , a relief on the social building of the fishing port operating company and the Bremerhaven seafaring school . On behalf of the Hanseatic City of Bremen , he carved the relief "Columbus discovers America" for the staircase to the café in the old Columbus train station . For the HBA itself, he carved a mermaid and a sailor on a roll of rope pondering a book. He decorated the facade of the new Bremerhaven Seafaring School with a half-sculpture of a seagull pouncing on a fish. The entrance to the Methodist Church on Grazer Straße in Mitte and the Markuskirche in Leherheide are adorned with a sgraffito by Grygo. The memorial for the victims of the National Socialist tyranny in the Bremerhaven cemetery in Wulsdorf (1958) was also made by him. His motifs include Kuttel Daddeldu , Mephisto , Bacchus and the Klabautermann .
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Photographs of Grygo are in the archive of the Nordsee-Zeitung .
See also
literature
- Elke Grapenthin: Artists in Bremerhaven and the surrounding area 1827–1990 . Hauschild Verlag , Bremen 1991. ISBN 978-3-926598-40-0 , p. 492.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Willi Lange (arcadja.com)
- ↑ The sgraffito in the Methodist Church fell victim to a renovation in 2012.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Grygo, Georg |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Grygo, Georg Hermann (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 4, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 28, 1969 |
| Place of death | Bremerhaven |