Georg Mahr

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Representation of Georg Mahr by Lino Salini

Georg Mahr (born May 1, 1889 in Frankfurt am Main ; † July 8, 1967 there ) was a German sculptor .

education

After attending the Frankfurt Model School , he began his first artistic training at the Frankfurt Städelschule . Darmstadt and Munich were his other places of study, where he was strongly influenced by the emerging Art Nouveau. During the First World War he suffered a serious arm injury that prevented his further training as a stone sculptor. So he resolutely turned to clay and ceramics.

family

His brother Dr. August C. Mahr, born on July 15, 1886 in Frankfurt am Main, taught from 1925 to 1932 as a professor of German and cultural studies at the renowned Stanford University and at Ohio State University . Georg Mahr lived with his brother August C. in Ohio from 1930 to 1937 , but returned to the German Empire in 1937. A younger brother Karl Mahr (1890–1945) lived as a painter and graphic artist in Frankfurt am Main and Berlin.

Works

Georg Mahr's works before 1945 were almost all destroyed by the effects of the war.

Fountain in the Volkspark Gaarden (around 1935)

For example, he designed a fountain with sculptures of seals, dolphins and other marine life for the Volkspark of the city of Kiel . This fountain was destroyed in World War II. However, the bronze sculpture in memory of the fallen soldiers of the First World War (1929) at the Johanniskirche in Frankfurt-Bornheim has survived.

In the Frankfurt Opera House there is a 1955 bust of the opera singer Hans Erl , born in Vienna in 1882 , who had been the first bass player at the Frankfurt Opera since 1918 . In 1933 he was released because of his Jewish descent, and on June 11, 1942, he and his wife were deported to the Majdanek concentration camp and murdered there.

In 1958 Mahr created a plaque cast in bronze for the last mayor of the Free City of Frankfurt , Karl Konstanz Viktor Fellner . It is located in the Friedberger Anlage at the point where Fellner hanged himself on the morning of July 24, 1866 in the garden of his house on Seilerstrasse .

In 1963 another memorial plaque was created for the Frankfurt poet Ludwig Börne , as a replacement for a memorial in the Bockenheim facility that was destroyed by vandalism in 1931 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ fountain in Werftpark 1932. kieler-rundschau.de, accessed 31 October 2010 .
  2. ^ Monument to the fallen in Ffm-Bornheim. frankfurter-habenlexikon.de, accessed on February 24, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Photo of the bust of the opera singer Hans Erl by Georg Mahr, 1955. (JPEG) (No longer available online.) In: Website “Jüdische Denkmäler - Frankfurt”. Verein für Denkmalgeschichte eV, archived from the original on November 9, 2013 ; Retrieved October 31, 2010 (( referencing website )). 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / jd-f.de
  4. ^ Fellner Memorial on the website Art in Public Space Frankfurt
  5. ↑ Janine Burnicki, Historical Museum Frankfurt : The Forgotten Ludwig Borne Monument. In: Frankfurt am Main 1933–1945. Institute for Urban History , October 17, 2003, accessed on September 24, 2014 .
  6. ^ Börne memorial plaque on the website Art in Public Space Frankfurt
personal data
SURNAME Mahr, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1967
Place of death Frankfurt am Main