Georg Marschall (painter)

Georg Marschall (born August 18, 1871 in Wittstock , † January 26, 1956 in Feuchtwangen ) was a German painter and sculptor .

Life

After graduating from school, he attended drawing school at the Academy of Arts in Berlin , his teachers were Hugo Vogel and Franz Skarbina . There he won a state award as a sculptor. After that he turned to painting and went on study trips, among others. a. to Paris. As a student of Anton von Werner and Adolph von Menzel , he received nine more state prizes in five years. In his private life, Marschall was an enthusiastic Freemason and belonged to the Freemason Lodge " Frederick the Great " in Berlin. He brought Gustav Stresemann to Freemasonry in 1923.

Works

Many historical and landscape pictures are known by him , including a huge Hindenburg monument in Berlin that is no longer preserved and other large-scale panorama pictures that did not survive the two world wars.

List of works

Monuments and sculptures (selection)

• Nailing figure " Eiserner Hindenburg " on Königsplatz on the south side of the Victory Column (built in 1915)
• Portrait head Paul von Hindenburg , after 1918, bronze, 32 × 31 × 45 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum , Vienna

Paintings (selection)

• Christ in Gethsemane .
• Frederick the Great .
• Christ before Pilate .
• Bishop Heinrich I von Havelberg grants the town charter to the citizens of Wittstock.
• English and French aviators in battle with Boelcke and Immelmann in the sky.
• Rosenhof (around 1910)

literature

• Ilse Krumpöck: The sculptures in the Army History Museum. Vienna 2004, p. 116

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ilse Krumpöck: The images in the Army History Museum. Vienna 2004, p. 116
2. ↑ Hans Ambach, "European trailblazer: Gustav Stresemann" in: ELEUSIS, issue 4/2015, p. 53
3. ↑ It was either Heinrich I von der Schulenburg or Heinrich von Kerckow.
   s. a. List of the bishops of Havelberg

Web links

• Marshal on wittstock.de