Georg Hieronymi

Georg Hieronymi on a tour of the old town (1967)

Georg Hieronymi (born December 5, 1914 in Oberursel ; † December 8, 1993 in Oberursel ) was a German painter and sculptor in Oberursel (Taunus) . Most of the time in the Frankfurt area, he designed numerous sacred, public and private buildings and created countless paintings, drawings, caricatures and sculptures.

Life

Georg Hieronymi showed great talent for painting and drawing as a schoolboy. After high school and military service, he was taken on by the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main, where Professor Kurt Scholz was his mentor. In a professional competition, he was Reich winner. He had to break off his studies in 1938 after returning to the Wehrmacht. He returned from Soviet captivity in 1949.

In 1950 he started working as a freelance artist in his own studio and earned his living by making sketches in the exhibition stand construction, designing advertising and election posters, and graphic and drawing work. But he was quickly overwhelmed with commissioned work, also because he was particularly versatile. He worked with wood, bronze, brass, Sayn silver, created wall paintings, reliefs, glass windows and mosaics, painted and drew expressive landscapes, caricatures and portraits, was a trade fair stand builder and commercial artist. In addition to his professional commitment, Georg Hieronymi also did a variety of voluntary work. In particular, he took care of the preservation of St. Ursula Church and the twinning with Epinay-sur-Seine .

Honors

In 1989 Georg Hieronymi received the plaque of honor from the city of Oberursel. In 1995 a new street was named Georg-Hieronymi-Straße in Oberursel. In 1997 the old meeting room in the town hall was given the name Georg-Hieronymi-Saal.

Works

Georg Hieronymi left hundreds of works of art in the public and private sectors. His earliest church work (from the 1950s) is the ceiling painting of St. Barbara in the hospital church in Oberursel. In 1959, the first large carving was the St. Ursula group on the baroque high altar of St. Ursula Church in Oberursel. As a result, he received many work orders. His sculptures soon adorned churches in Frankfurt, Offenbach, in the Westerwald and in the Odenwald. In 1967 the great Madonna and Child for the Oberurseler Liebfrauenkirche was made from wood . In 1971 the overall design of the mourning hall at the Oberursel cemetery followed. From 1983 he received extensive orders for the reconstruction of the east line of Frankfurt's Römerberg . After an old incision process in mirror writing before casting, he provided the Christophorus bell in St. Ursula Church with an extensive inscription in 1986.

In 1986 he exhibited 50 of his graphics, drawings and paintings for the first time in Oberurel's twin town Epinay-sur-Seine (near Paris). Further exhibitions followed only after his death. In November 1994 the city of Oberursel paid tribute to him with a retrospective in the conference room of the town hall. On the first weekend of the two-week exhibition, it already counted 6,000 visitors.

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literature

Georg Hieronymi and his city. Oberursel: Verlag Hans G. Usinger 1994

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Hans G. Usinger (Ed.): Georg Hieronymi and his city . Hans G. Usinger, Oberursel (Taunus) 1994.
2. ↑ Martina Jensong: The old conference room has been named after the Oberursel artist Georg Hieronymi since Wednesday . In: Taunus Zeitung . Frankfurter Societas Druckerei, Frankfurt am Main November 7, 1997, p. 5 .
3. ↑ Georg Hieronymi's life's work . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung - Rhein-Main-Zeitung . Born in 1994, No. 268 . Frankfurt am Main November 18, 1994, p. 79 .