Hans Kröger (sculptor)

Hans Kröger (* in the 19th century ; † in the 20th century ) was a German sculptor who mainly worked in Hanover .

Life

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According to the address book of the city of Hanover from 1934, Kröger lived in an apartment on the first floor of the house at Herrenstrasse 6 - and was one of the few at that time who had his own telephone connection.

Famous works

The 1935 " Memorial for the Reserve Replacement Regiment 4 " in the Georgengarten in Hanover

Under the inscription "A ^. D ^. 1935 "the written artist signature" HANS KRÖGER "

• In a competition organized by the city of Hanover in 1911 for grave monuments for row graves ... for installation in the city cemeteries, Hans Kröger was awarded first prize in group 2 graves from 50 to 100 marks for his “children's grave”. Like the other designs, Kröger's design was exhibited in the vestibule of the not yet completed New City Hall in Hanover up to and including Sunday, July 23, 1911.

• In a competition announced around 1913 for a memorial for Friedrich Meyer , the theologian who preached in the Marienkirche in Zwickau and died in 1911, Kröger received the second prize for his design after the artists Heinrich Brenner and Alfred Glatter who worked in Dresden from 1000 marks.

• In 1914, the journal Beton und Eisen published by W. Ernst and Son in Berlin reported . International organ for concrete construction about Hans Kröger, who would issue architectural models made of plasticine for buildings to be made in reinforced concrete , for example a warehouse .

• During the First World War , Kröger created the tomb for the fallen Theodor Hohmeyer in the Stöcken city cemetery based on a design by Bernhard Hoetger . While Homeyer's father, an official of the Hanoverian magistrate , acquired the grave sites, it was presumably Martha Homeyer, who is employed in the highest positions in the Bahlsen biscuit factory , who commissioned the grave monument, which was originally erected as a culmination point in the axis of the Stöcken cemetery .

• At the time of the Weimar Republic and in the year of the peak of German hyperinflation in 1923, Hans Kröger created the sculpture of a soaring horse as part of a competition: the bronze sculpture entitled " Mobility " was initially set up in Bremerhaven , but later ended up in the Property of the Gauleiter Otto Telschow . After the restoration of the statue, also known as the “Lower Saxony horse”, as an outdoor exhibit at the Lüneburg Museum , the museum director Heike Düselder announced in 2016 an explanatory documentation board on the “origin and history of the horse”.

• For the period of National Socialism in 1935 in Hanover east Jagerstrasse Georgengarten the " Memorial for the Reserve Replacement Regiment 4 set": The war memorial bears under the sublime sculptured Infschrift "A ^. D ^. 1935 ”the artist's signature “ Hans Kröger ”, deepened with individual capital letters .

Web links

Commons : Hans Kröger  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Vol. 31 (1911), p. 364; Preview over google books
2. ^ Compare the address book of the city of Hanover from 1934, p. 253; Digitized version of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library
3. ^ German competitions united with architecture competitions , Vol. 26, Leipzig: Verlag von Seemann & Company, 1911, p. 308; limited preview in Google Book search
4. ↑ ^{a b} o.V. : Deutsche Bauzeitung , Vol. 14, Part 1, 1913, p. 104; limited preview in Google Book search
5. ^ Compare Westermannsmonthshefte , vol. 61, edition 1, p. 395; limited preview in Google Book search
6. ^ Concrete and iron. Internationales Organ für Betonbau (= Beton et fer = Concrete and steel ), Vol. 13, Verlag von W. Ernst & Sohn, 1914, p. 116; limited preview in Google Book search
7. ↑ Frauke Engel , Thomas Hirthe: Bernhard Hoetger. Bildwerke 1902 - 1936 (= gallery manual , vol. 2), Hanover: Lower Saxony State Museum, 1994, ISBN 978-3-929444-01-8 and ISBN 3-929444-01-1 ; P. 49; limited preview in Google Book search
8. ↑ Hans-Herbert Jenckel (Red.), Sp (author.): Horse sculpture in the wall cream park dismantled for restoration ; Article on the website of the Landeszeitung für die Lüneburger Heide landeszeitung.de from September 10, 2015, last accessed on March 2, 2018
9. ↑ Hans-Herbert Jenckel (Red.), Sp (author.): Lower Saxony horse returns to Wandrahmpark ; Article on the website of the Landeszeitung für die Lüneburger Heide landeszeitung.de from March 23, 2016, last accessed on March 2, 2018
10. ^ Eva Benz-Rababah : Georgengarten. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , pp. 211ff .; here: p. 213.
11. ↑ Compare, for example, the photo documentation at Wikimedia Commons