Georg Lund

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Georg Lund (born June 14, 1861 in Ahneby near Flensburg , † February 21, 1930 Großsoltbrück ), was a German sculptor .

Life

After finishing school in Flensburg, Georg Lund attended the Berlin Art Academy with Fritz Schaper, among others . In the 1882/83 semester he received recognition, in the 1883/94 semester a 2nd prize in the modeling clay and in the 1884/85 semester a 1st prize in the nude hall.

He became friends with the sculptor Paul Türpe and the painter Karl Storch . When Paul Schultze's travel grant of 3000 marks was awarded for the first time in 1889, Lund won first prize. Lund traveled with Wilhelm Haverkamp via Paris to Rome, where he arrived in December 1889. Both became members of the German Artists' Association and shared a studio on the grounds of the Villa Strohl-Fern. The nude female figure Quelle was created in Rome .

After returning to Berlin, he took part in the great Berlin art exhibitions from 1891 . In 1893 he received the second gold medal at the exhibition in the Munich Glass Palace . He had his greatest success with the group "Singende Kinder", which he presented at exhibitions in Berlin, Munich, Kiel and Flensburg and which he sold in bronze but also in painted plaster stucco. At his request, the plaster model, Klagende Psyche, shown at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition in 1897, was ordered as a marble version by the Berlin National Gallery. The director of the Nationalgalerie, Max Jordan , described the figure who combines the training of classical antiquity with French salon art: “In a half-reclining position, completely naked, the head raised plaintively, the right hand propped up, the left traveling to the heart. “In 1907, on behalf of Empress Auguste Viktoria, an altar cross was created for St. Jürgen's Church in Flensburg, which was made with fine silver precipitation in the WMF , to Lund's“ greatest satisfaction ” .

Lund, who had been a member of the Schleswig-Holstein Art Cooperative since 1899 , retired to his parents' farm in Großsoltbrück around 1920 and created the gravestone decorations for the family grave in the Großsolt cemetery. He bequeathed his legacy to Kiel University for students who came from his home region of Fishing. However, the paternal farm was expropriated due to the law on land procurement for the purposes of the armed forces.

Works

  • Source, 1890
  • Singing children, bronze around 1893, State Museum Stuttgart
  • Wailing Psyche, 1900, marble. National Gallery Berlin
  • Socrates, seated and gesticulating, around 1906
  • Bronze relief Walther Flemming , Kiel professor and director of the Anatomical Institute, around 1907
  • Phryne, around 1913

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Catalog of the exhibition of the Kgl. Acad. Of the arts. Berlin 1890, p. XI.
  2. ^ Rüdiger Bausch, Wilhelm Haverkamp - curriculum vitae and artistic work, Senden 2013, p. 15.
  3. ^ Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer: Longing for Arcadia. Schleswig-Holstein artists in Italy. Heide 2009, p. 327.
  4. ↑ Bernherd Maas (Ed.): National Gallery Berlin. Inventory catalog of the sculptures. Vol. 1, Leipzig 2006, pp. 384 f., No. 506.
  5. ↑ Meinhold Lutz: Preservation of the aura despite technical reproduction. Berlin artists work for WMF. In: Ethos and Pathos. The Berlin School of Sculpture 1786–1914. Contributions. Berlin 1990, p. 330.
  6. ↑ Files in the family estate
personal data
SURNAME Lund, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Ahneby near Flensburg
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: 1913
Place of death Berlin