Hans Schwegerle

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Hans Schwegerle, around 1906

Hans Schwegerle (born May 2, 1882 in Lübeck , † September 4, 1950 in Munich ) was a German sculptor and medalist .

Life

Schwegerle was the son of the court photographer Hermann Schwegerle (* 1848 in Augsburg, † 1921 in Munich), who lived and worked in Lübeck from 1880 to 1900. After visiting the Katharineum and first art classes at the Art School of Willibald Leo von Lütgendorff-Leinburg he studied from May 1900 in the composing class of William of Rümann at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich , where Karl Raupp his teacher in the Nature class was.

The Munich studio, around 1906

His first major work ( The Prodigal Son ) was awarded the “Great Silver Medal” in Munich in 1902, the academy's highest award for its students; Schwegerle was the recipient of this First Prize for several years in a row from 1904 (for Paradise Lost ) to 1908. His works, which were shown in the exhibitions of the Munich Secession , the great Cologne art exhibition in Leipzig and Breslau , were always counted among the best sculptures there and were praised in art magazines. In 1904 he received first prize for sculpture at the International Exhibition in Paris .

In 1906 Schwegerle gave a reporter from his hometown a look into his Munich studio. From left to right in his photo we first see a small model of a Holofernes statue, followed by a bust of the writer Felix Noeggerath , a child's portrait and a grave relief. Also the large group The Lost Paradise and The Prodigal Son . In the middle stands a satyr as an unfinished work . The sandstone figure was intended as a fountain figure. Original drawings that he designed for the magazine Jugend , sketches of grave monuments in relief and various lithographs hang on the walls .

The first work with which Schwegerle went public was The Prodigal Son . He then fulfilled the expectations that the young artist aroused with the large group, The Lost Paradise, intended as a tomb . Seldom has a work of art been so unanimously praised at the time. First the group was exhibited in the Munich Secession, and then requested by many other art exhibitions.

Professor at the Academy since 1917, he worked as a sculptor, but specialized in the design of medals. Drafts for over 600 medals were created in his studio. Together with Richard Klein, Josef Bernhart and Karl Goetz, he is considered to be one of those who shaped the medal style of the Third Reich in different ways . Nevertheless, the successful sculptor fell into the sights of the Gestapo because he belonged to the Munich hostel of traveling journeymen , a lie-like association that consisted of members of the Schlaraffia and that has met monthly since the beginning of 1938 at the corps house of the Vitruvia corps in Heßstrasse. The political jokes told at their social evenings and the criticism expressed, for example against the November pogroms of 1938 , were bugged and led to the group's arrest in November 1938; however, the proceedings were essentially discontinued in 1940. He was then represented in 1941 and 1943 at the Great German Art Exhibitions in the Munich House of German Art , each with a “ Führer bust ”.

Works (selection)

Christ created in 1908
Boy with tires , Lübeck, ramparts
Warrior Memorial, 1931

Schwegerle's first works include the 2.20 m high statue of Christ on the outer facade of Lübeck's St. Lorenz Church .

In the early 1920s, Schwegerle designed a memorial for the Lübeck gymnastics club on the Buniamshof sports field . In the nearby playground at the Kaisertor in the Lübeck ramparts, his boy with tires stands on a fountain column by the paddling pool.

Thomas Mann , for whose Fiorenza Schwegerle designed the stage set for the performance in the Munich Artists' Club in 1907 and for whom he made medals in 1925 and 1930, owned a statue of Hermes (1920) by Schwegerle in the garden of his Munich villa, which was sold at the auction of the house inventory by Schwegerle was repurchased and is now owned by the Schleswig-Holstein State Museums Foundation in the entrance area of ​​the Schleswig Prinzenpalais . Another bronze cast was purchased by the Behnhaus in Lübeck in 1920 .

Schwegerle's portrait bust of Manns, six bronze copies of which he made in July 1919, came as a gift from Kurt Vermehrens to the Lübeck Behnhaus collection in 1921 (now in the Buddenbrookhaus ), which also includes a bust of Stefan George (1911). Further copies of the Mann bust are in the Städtische Galerie Nürnberg, in the Munich City Museum and in the Thomas Mann Archive in Kilchberg ZH . The Thomas Mann Archives made several plaster copies of his copy.

His sandstone statue of a mourning Madonna (approx. 1921) can be seen in the letter chapel of the Marienkirche in Lübeck , as well as a cross with the names of the 318 members of the St. Mary's community who died in the First World War in the south-eastern ambulatory chapel . Not far from there, a plaque commemorates the graduates of the Lübeck teachers' college who died in the war (1919). In 1935 Schwegerle designed the official cross of the bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lübeck , which, despite the German-Christian client ( Erwin Balzer ), is characterized by restrained design with a local reference and is still used by the bishop for the Holstein-Lübeck district.

In 1931 the Nikolaikirche zu Stralsund received a memorial chapel with the unveiling of the memorial he created for the parishioners who died in the World War. A bronze bust of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1933) is on Kesselbergstrasse on the Walchensee to commemorate Goethe's stay during his trip to Italy .

Schwegerle was represented at the Great German Art Exhibition in 1941 with a bust of a leader .

A female statuette by Schwegerle (35 cm) was stolen from the Lübeck Museum Behnhaus at the beginning of April 2018 .

Illustrations

  • Ernst Weber: Happiness and Consolation: A book for inner contemplation, of the true and false treasures of life. Picture decorations T. color ill.] By Hans Schwegerle, 2nd, alter. Munich edition: GDW Callwey 1925 (Der deutsche Spielmann; 37)

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1913 International Art Exhibition Munich in the Glaspalast : Here he was awarded the gold medal.

literature

  • Gerhard J. Bellinger ; Brigittegler-Bellinger : Schwabing's Ainmillerstraße and its most important residents. A representative example of Munich's city history from 1888 to today. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2003, ISBN 3-8330-0747-8 / 2nd edition, 2012, ISBN 978-3-8482-2883-6 / E-Book 2013, ISBN 978-3-8482-6264-9 , p 208 f.
  • Wolfgang Hasselmann: Hans Schwegerle. Medals and Plaques. Gietl, Regenstauf 2000, ISBN 3-924861-42-0 . (= A catalog raisonné by Professor Hans Schwegerle , Volume 1.)
  • Heinz Röhl: Lübeck. Medals, brands, signs. Volume 2, Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1995, ISBN 978-3-7950-3211-1 . (Catalog with descriptions of 20 medals that Schwegerle created on behalf of the city and Lübeck institutions)
  • Heinz Röhl: Hans Schwegerle. Sculptor and medalist. In: Der Wagen , Volume 200, pp. 215-234.
  • Wulf Schadendorf : Museum Behnhaus. (Catalog) 2nd edition, Lübeck 1976.
  • Helga Schmoll gen. Eisenwerth: The Munich sculptor Hans Schwegerle (1882-1950) as a portraitist. Plastic documents on contemporary history. In: Michael Berens (Ed.): Florilegium artis. Contributions to art history and monument preservation. Verlag "Die Mitte", Saarbrücken 1984, pp. 116–124.
  • Helga Schmoll called Eisenwerth: The portraits of Rudolf Steiner by the sculptor Hans Schwegerle. In: Die Drei , born 1985, issue 9, p. 673 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans Schwegerle, entry in the matriculation register (accessed May 8, 2008)
  2. ↑ Hans Schwegerle. In: Vaterstädtische Blätter 1906, No. 37, edition of September 9, 1906
  3. ↑ Hans Schwegerle. In: Father-city sheets . Born 1906, No. 37, edition from September 9, 1906
  4. ↑ Monthly gazette of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / forschung.gnm.de  
  5. ↑ Resistance, Refusal and Protest against the Nazi Regime in Munich, Chapter 14: Scientists, Intellectuals and Artists ( Memento of the original from August 10, 2007 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. (the sculptor Johannes Schwegerle mentioned here is certainly Hans Schwegerle), accessed on August 18, 2008  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www. resistance.musin.de
  6. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 559.
  7. ↑ Bellinger / Regulator-Bellinger (Lit.), p. 209
  8. ↑ Description of the house
  9. ↑ Schadendorf, No. 298
  10. ↑ Hans Schwegerle, head portrait Thomas Mann, 1918–1919, K-78/156 , accessed on January 16, 2020
  11. ↑ Schadendorf, No. 297
  12. ↑ The warrior memorial in the Nikolaikirche in Stralsund by Prof. Hans Schwegerle In: Vaterstädtische Blätter ; Born 1930/31, No. 27, edition from September 19, 1931
  13. ↑ Figure (HDK 323)
  14. ↑ Woman statue stolen from Behnhaus , Lübecker Nachrichten of May 15, 2018, accessed on May 17, 2018
  15. ↑ artist. Hans Schwegerle. German Society for Medal Art, accessed on July 13, 2014 .

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personal data
SURNAME Schwegerle, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and medalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH 4th September 1950
Place of death Munich