Georg Wolf (sculptor)

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Julie Wolfthorn: Portrait Georg Wolf
Georg Wolf: The raftsman . Plastic in today's Polish town of Toruń
Georg Wolf: Boy fishing

Georg Wolf (born January 3, 1858 in San Francisco ; died September 30, 1930 in Berlin ) was a German sculptor .

Live and act

Wolf came from a Jewish family. After the parents' early death, the maternal grandparents took over the care of the five children. His sisters, Luise Wolf (1860–1942), translator, and Julie Wolfthorn , painter and graphic artist, were deported to Theresienstadt in 1942 . The latter also made a portrait of her brother with a recently completed work in the background. He is not identical to the Alsatian animal painter Georg Wolf (1882–1962).

After graduating from high school in Brieg (Silesia), Wolf first studied architecture at the art colleges in Vienna and Munich . However, following a strong inclination, he switched to sculpture and attended the Berlin Art Academy from 1888–1890 (under Fritz Schaper ). From 1890 he had his own studio in Charlottenburg on Spreestrasse. He was then represented several times with his works at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition.

Georg Wolf found his final resting place in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf .

Works (selection)

  • 1914: fountain with rafting sculpture ; a violin-playing bronze raftsman on a sandstone plinth, Thorn
  • Boy fishing , 43 cm bronze figure on marble plinth , cast near Gladenbeck

literature

  • Arthur Schulz: German Sculptures of the Modern Era: a collection of outstanding works of sculpture, carried out by contemporary artists. Volume 1. Berlin / New York 1900, p. 34.
  • EM Hughes: Artists in California 1786-1940. San Francisco 1986.
  • Wolf, Georg . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 36 : Wilhelmy-Zyzywi . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1947, p. 198 .
  • Heike Carstensen: Life and work of the painter and graphic artist Julie Wolfthorn (1864–1944). Reconstruction of an artist's life. Marburg 2011 (pp. 26–35 on the family and on Georg Wolf).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Hermann: Julie Wolfthorn. Artist picture. In: East and West. Illustrated monthly for all of Judaism. Haft 12 (December 1, 1911), Sp. 1091–1100 (portrait G. Wolf Sp. 1092, uni-frankfurt.de ).
  2. ↑ Wolf, Georg . In: Address book for Berlin and its suburbs , 1900, part 1, p. 1741. "Sculptor, Charlottenburg, Spreestrasse 15". Spreestrasse 23 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1910, Part 5, Charlottenburg, p. 132. “Wolf, G .; Sculptor".
  3. ↑ Pomnik Flisaka. Image and short text about the raftsman fountain on the city homepage Toruń (Polish).
  4. ↑ "Angler Boy", Georg Wolf. Image on Frank Herweg bronze foundry, accessed on November 17, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Wolf, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 1930
Place of death Berlin