Herbert Garbe

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Herbert Garbe (born June 1, 1888 in Berlin , † July 17, 1945 in Rennes in a prison camp) was a German sculptor .

Life

Garbe dealt with Expressionism after the First World War , of which he is counted as the second generation. Later he came to calmer forms.

Garbe was a member of the November Group and the German Association of Artists . Among other things, he worked on the design of the revolutionary monument in Berlin-Friedrichsfelde .

On January 20, 1919, he married his sculptor colleague Emy Roeder . Among the acquaintances of the artist couple were a number of famous artists of the time, for example Käthe Kollwitz , Ernst Barlach and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff .

In 1933 he, previously a member of the SPD , voluntarily joined the NSDAP .

His wife followed him to Rome in 1933 , where he held a studio in the Villa Massimo for a year . In 1934 he portrayed Mussolini . Garbe returned to Berlin alone in 1934 and in 1936 became artistic director of the Städel School in Frankfurt am Main .

In his later years he created a number of women's sculptures in occupied Alsace .

literature

  • Emil Szittya: Herbert Garbe et la Sculpture Allemande. Paris (1932?).
  • Simone Lindenstädt: The sculptor Herbert Garbe. Freie Univ., Diss., Berlin 1994.
  • Christian Tümpel [Ed.], German sculptor, 1900 - 1945, degenerate , Königstein im Taunus: Langewiesche, 1992 ISBN 3-7845-7180-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Ordinary members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Garbe, Herbert ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on July 31, 2015)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  2. ^ Jobst C. Knigge: The Villa Massimo in Rome 1933–1943. Struggle for artistic independence. Humboldt University Berlin 2013 (open access).
personal data
SURNAME Garbe, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 17, 1945
Place of death Rennes