Georg Schreyögg (sculptor)

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Georg Schreyögg (born August 13, 1870 in Aitrang ; † July 7, 1934 in Munich ) was a German sculptor .

Life and work

Schreyögg was the son of Mathäus Schreyögg (1831–?), An innkeeper and master baker, and Kreszentia Marie, nee. Jörg (1833-1899). He spent his youth in Mittenwald . Schreyögg began his training at the Partenkirchen wood carving school in 1884 , after which he switched to the Munich School of Applied Arts and the Munich Academy of Fine Arts (AdBK). At the AdBK he was a student of the sculptor Wilhelm von Rümann from 1894 to 1901 . From 1901 to 1908 he worked as a freelance sculptor in Munich. In 1905 he married Elisabeth von Barton (1881–1957) with whom he had three children. His son Jörg Schreyögg was a painter and graphic artist .

He received a private scholarship from Prince Regent Luitpold . This was followed by a year-long stay in Italy until he switched to the arts and crafts school in Karlsruhe as a professor in 1909 . In 1909–1912, he created a number of designs for the Karlsruhe majolica factory. From 1911 to 1914 he was a teacher at the painting school in Karlsruhe . Schreyögg taught from 1920 to 1932 as a professor of sculpture at the Badische Landeskunstschule Karlsruhe . After he retired in 1932, he returned to Mittenwald.

Georg Schreyögg was a member of the German Association of Artists .

Works (selection)

The Barbara monument in Koblenz, 1908

Honors

  • On August 10, 1930, Schreyögg was awarded the honorary citizen of Mittenwald for his services to the preservation of the Mittenwald peculiarity in rural and picturesque terms .
  • In Mittenwald the Professor-Schreyögg-Platz is named after him.

literature

  • Alexander Heilmeyer: Georg Schreyögg, a Munich stone sculptor. In: Kunst und Handwerk: Zeitschrift für Kunstgewerbe und Kunsthandwerk since 1851 59 1908, pp. 54–56 online resource; ( [1] ).
  • Karl Widmer: Georg Schreyögg. In: Kunstgewerbeblatt. NF24.1913, pp. 3-4 online resource; ( [2] ).
  • Ludwig Segmiller: New work by Georg Schreyögg. In: Art for everyone. 32 1916, pp. 104-110 online resource; ( ; https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/kfa1916%5F1917/0117 ).
  • Meinhold Lurz: Schreyögg, Georg , in: Bernd Ottnad (Hrsg.): Badische Biographien . New series 3. Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 978-3-17-009958-6 , p. 248 f.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Register of the AdBK
  2. ↑ History ( Memento of the original from July 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. in: State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kunstakademie-karlsruhe.de
  3. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the Deutscher Künstlerbund since it was founded in 1903 / Schreyögg, Georg ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (accessed on February 2, 2016)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
personal data
SURNAME Schreyögg, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Aitrang
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 1934
Place of death Munich