Georg Meyer-Steglitz

Georg Meyer , usually called Georg Meyer-Steglitz , initially also Georg Meyer-Pyritz , (born June 27, 1868 in Pyritz , Pomerania , † October 11, 1929 in Berlin ; full real name: Georg Renatus Meyer ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Georg Meyer was the older brother of the sculptor Martin Meyer-Pyritz and studied first at the teaching institute of the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin , later at the Berlin Art Academy with Johannes Boese . After studying in Paris, he rented a studio in Steglitz and called himself Georg Meyer-Steglitz from then on.

Meyer-Steglitz was very busy, although only a few of his works have survived, as they predominantly adorned places in the former Prussian provinces of Pomerania , Neumark and Posen and must now be considered lost.

plant

designation	image	Location whereabouts	Kind of material	Dating	Further information
Wilhelm I.		Wollin destroyed	Bust bronze	1889, 25.6.
War memorial 1895		Cammin destroyed	Bronze group	1895, October 20.	Group Victoria hands a fallen warrior the laurel branch in front of an obelisk; same group in 1901 in Königsberg / Neumark
Wilhelm I.		Stettin old embankment destroyed	Statue bronze	1896, 28.6.
War memorial 1897 Wilhelm I. Bismarck Moltke		Altentreptow destroyed	Bust / relief bronze	1897, 2.7.	Bust monument with relief on the base
War memorial 1864, 1866 and 1870/71 Wilhelm I. Friedrich III.		Filehne destroyed	Relief bronze	1897, March 22.	Figure of a soldier, double emperor relief on the base, cast Lauchhammer
Bismarck		Naugard destroyed	Statue bronze	1897, 1.4.	Statue approx. 3 m high, cast Lauchhammer
Wilhelm I.		Rawitsch destroyed in 1920	Statue bronze	1898, 20.6.	same figure as the following in Belgard, Guss Lauchhammer
War memorial 1866 and 1870/71 Wilhelm I.		Belgard (Persante) destroyed	Statue bronze	1898, 14.8.	same figure as the previous one in Rawitsch, Guss Lauchhammer
War memorial 1899 Wilhelm I.		Dirschau destroyed	Relief copper	1899, May 14.	Emperor relief on the base; Cost: 19,000 marks, donated by the district and city
War memorial 1870–71		Rastenburg destroyed	Figure bronze	1899	Cast Lauchhammer
Wilhelm I. Bismarck Moltke		Ostrowo destroyed	Statue / reliefs bronze	1900, October 14.	on the front of the base a relief of the Reich coat of arms, in front of the base on a cushion the German Imperial Crown, Guss Lauchhammer
Bismarck		Spandau destroyed	Statue bronze	1901, 10.5.	2.65 m high in the uniform of the Halberstadt cuirassiers; Cast Lauchhammer; melted down in World War II
War memorial 1870/71		Saarlouis destroyed (base preserved)	Bronze group	1901, May 19.	Cast Lauchhammer; Group of figures of a wounded and a victorious warrior in 1946 removed
Bismarck		Stolp destroyed	Statue bronze	1901, August 18.	Replica of the Spandau statue; Cast Lauchhammer
War memorial 1870/71 Wilhelm I. Friedrich III.		Königsberg (Neumark) destroyed	Bronze group	1901, September 15.	Victoria hands the laurel branch to a fallen warrior , same group as in Cammin 1895
Wilhelm I. Bismarck Moltke Roon		Gartz (Oder) destroyed	Statue / reliefs bronze	1902, 8.6.
Wilhelm I.		Barth destroyed	Statue bronze	1902, October 18.
Friedrich III.		Diez ?	Bust bronze	1902	in front of the pedestal bronze eagle on captured flag; Cast Lauchhammer
Gneisenau Nettelbeck		Kolberg destroyed in 1945	Statue bronze	1903, 2.7.
Wilhelm I.		Herborn ?	Statue bronze	1903, 2.9.
Bismarck		Löbau destroyed	Statue bronze	1904, April 17.	Cast Lauchhammer
Gneisenau		Schildau destroyed	Statue bronze	1904, 3.7.
Bismarck		Wilhelmshaven destroyed	Statue bronze	1905, 1.4.	Replica of the statue in Spandau (see 1901); Cast Lauchhammer
Gneisenau Nettelbeck		Potsdam ?	Statue bronze	1905	Cast Lauchhammer; probably the same group as in 1903 in Kolberg
Johann August Zeune		Berlin-Steglitz	Granite portrait relief	1906, October 13.	Dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Berlin Institute for the Blind ( Johann August Zeune School for the Blind ).
August Friedrich Eisenhart		Potsdam preserved	Bust bronze	1909	Cast Lauchhammer
Wilhelm I.		Soldin destroyed	Statue bronze	1909, 6.5.	designed as a fountain; Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa high relief in a pedestal niche; Cast Lauchhammer
Friedrich Ludwig Jahn		Freyburg / U	Limestone statue	1910, 08/14.	Copy of the Jahn statue by Erdmann Encke in Berlin's Hasenheide, 1910 at the Brussels World's Fair , displayed in the Jahn Museum
Wilhelm I.		Freyburg / U. destroyed?	Bust bronze	1910
Bismarck		Freyburg / U. destroyed?	Bust bronze	1910
Duke August II.		Wolfenbüttel market square	Statue bronze	?	designed as a fountain
War memorial 1870/71		Kolberg destroyed	Bronze group	?	Warrior group
Boy blowing soap	image		Bronze statuette	?	2 copies, one auctioned in 1995 (without mouthpiece, see picture), another privately owned (53 cm)
Escape artist	image		Bronze statuette	?	Auctioned in 2016
sower			Bronze statuette	?	2 copies, both auctioned
Plowing farmer			Bronze statuette	?
Love never stops				?
Christ and the blind				?
Wounded			Bronze statuette	?

literature

• Meyer-Steglitz, Georg. In: Willy Oskar Dreßler (Hrsg.): Dressler's art manual . 8th edition, Volume 2, Berlin 1921, p. 391.
• Meyer-Steglitz, Georg Renatus . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 24 : Mandere – Möhl . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1930, p. 475 .
• Peter Bloch, Sibylle Einholz , Jutta von Simson: Ethos and Pathos. The Berlin School of Sculpture 1786–1914. Exhibition catalog, Berlin 1990, Volume 2 (articles with short biographies of Berlin sculptors), p. 520, No. 294.

Web links

Commons : Georg Meyer-Steglitz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Meyer-Steglitz, Georg Renatus institut-aktuelle-kunst.de.
2. ^ Saarlouis District War Memorial at institut-aktuelle-kunst.de , accessed on December 26, 2017.
3. ↑ Fig
4. ↑ Who was August Friedrich Eisenhart? , accessed May 2, 2015