Hermann Geibel

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Geibel's bronze figure "Boy with Dove" on Scipioplatz in Mannheim with a drinking cup as an ironic addition

Hermann Geibel (born May 14, 1889 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † September 20, 1972 in Darmstadt ) was a German sculptor and university professor.

Life

Hermann Karl Geibel was born in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1889 as the son of Armin Franz Geibel and his wife Elisabeth Margarethe Galli. He grew up in Freiburg and Basel. After school he attended the art academy in Dresden in 1909 in the drawing and modeling class. From 1910 to 1913 he was trained as a draftsman and sculptor in Munich. There Geibel also attended sculpture courses with Erwin Kurz and courses with the animal painter Heinrich von Zügel and courses with Gustaf Britsch . During this time he was already committed to depicting animals. Geibel first attracted public attention through two groups of deer, which he created in 1913 for the Bühlerhöhe officers' convalescent home near Baden-Baden. Geibel was badly wounded during World War I so that he was forced to train his left arm as a working arm.

From 1916 to 1934 he lived as a freelance sculptor in Munich. He had a close exchange of ideas with Karl Albiker . In the 1920s, Geibel made numerous extensive study trips to Greece, France, Italy and Spain.

On July 1, 1934, Geibel took up an extraordinary professorship for ornamentation and modeling, life drawing and applied sculpture at the TH Darmstadt as the successor to Josef Plenk . During his time in Darmstadt, he ran a studio on Kiesstrasse, which was completely destroyed in the heavy bombing raid on Darmstadt on September 11, 1944.

After his membership in the German Association of Artists , which was banned in 1936 , Geibel became a member of the artistic advisory board of the Darmstadt Artists' Association, a unitary organization founded by Mayor Otto Wamboldt that same year, which wanted to bring together all local artists under National Socialist leadership. In addition to Geibel u. a. Adolf Beyer , Jakob Krug and Erich Mindner . Geibel was not a member of the NSDAP or other Nazi association, however, was of Adolf Hitler on the gottbegnadeten list (. So-called leaders list ) of the most important visual artists of the Nazi state set. He took part in the large exhibition in the Munich House of German Art in 1939 with the bronze work Head of a Young East Frisian and Elk Cow .

On September 30, 1954, Geibel retired and then continued to reside in Darmstadt as a sculptor. Portraits and depictions of animals predominate in his artistic work. His best-known work of art in Darmstadt is likely to be the unicorn fountain erected in Kirchstrasse in 1955.

Geibel was married to Elfriede Eleonore Geibel for the first time, and from 1939 to the second marriage to the Munich artist Hedwig Kruse (1895–1991).

Hermann Geibel was buried in the Darmstadt forest cemetery (grave site: L 1 IZ 25).

Honors

literature

  • Margarete Dierks : H. Geibel , JG Bläschke Verlag, Darmstadt 1974. ISBN 3-875-61263-9
  • Christa Wolf: Directory of professors at TH Darmstadt. Short biographies 1836-1945 , Verlag des Historischen Verein für Hessen, Darmstadt 1977. OCLC 611985164 (p. 58)
  • Hermann Geibel. In: Stadtlexikon Darmstadt , Verlag des Historisches Verein für Hessen, Stuttgart 2006. (p. 295)
  • Melanie Hanel: The Technical University of Darmstadt in the “Third Reich” , dissertation, Darmstadt 2013.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Ordinary members of the Deutscher Künstlerbund since it was founded in 1903 / Geibel, Hermann ( 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 August 3, 2015)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  2. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 (= The time of National Socialism. Vol. 17153). Completely revised edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-596-17153-8 , p. 158.
  3. ↑ Information board at the main entrance of the Waldfriedhof Darmstadt
personal data
SURNAME Geibel, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH 20th September 1972
Place of death Darmstadt