Hermann Joachim Pagels

Hermann Joachim Pagels

Pagels family grave

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Hermann Joachim Heinrich Pagels (born September 11, 1876 in Lübeck , † July 1, 1959 in Berlin ) was a German sculptor.

Life

Pagels was a son of the businessman Heinrich Pagels and his wife Mathilde (nee Höppner). His father was a senior partner at Heinr. Pagels in the Breite Straße zu Lübeck, a porcelain and household goods store. He was a classmate of Thomas Mann at the Katharineum in Lübeck . With Fritz Behn and Hans Schwegerle he formed a group of almost the same age from Lübeck who became successful sculptors and whose realism corresponded to contemporary tastes. He studied from 1894 to 1900 at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin , where he was a student of Otto Brausewetter , Peter Breuer and Ernst Herter and worked in their studios from 1901 to 1904. In 1896 he won the 1st prize of the Academy for the composition of a drawing and in 1900 for the composition of a statue.

Time after 1900

1904 was represented with three sculptures at the international art exhibition in Düsseldorf . In the same year he received a bronze medal at the world exhibition in St. Louis , where he was represented with the bronzes Pessimist and Snake . In 1905 he opened his own studio and received an honorable mention from the Society for Berlin Art for his group of children . From 1907 he made study trips to France and Italy and worked in Florence for 18 months. After his return he had his studio in the Atelierhaus Siegmunds Hof 11 in the Hansaviertel ; his political stance at the time described his Who is it? - Entry from 1908 as socially liberal .

In 1911 he created the design for a porcelain figure of the KPM , a portrait statuette of Prince Wilhelm of Prussia , the eldest son of Crown Prince Wilhelm . One of his better-known early works is the chicken thief fountain on Aachen's Rathausplatz (1913). This was destroyed in the Second World War and replaced by a new casting in 1953. Casts of the chicken thief, of which there was also a reduced version, are in the palace gardens of Berlin-Köpenick and in the collection of the Behnhaus in Lübeck. The porcelain manufacturer Allach sold a 27 cm high porcelain version as model no. 126 .

First World War

On August 2, 1914, he went into the field as a Vice Sergeant with the Guard Rifle Battalion in Lichterfelde , and was the first of them to receive the Iron Cross in November. As a deputy officer in the Landwehr Regiment 12, he was promoted to lieutenant . In November 1915 he fought with the 3rd Jäger Regiment on horseback . In 1917, his then 21-year-old relative Hermann Pagels fell in France. He was buried in the family grave designed artistically by Hermann Joachim Pagels in 1908 in the Burgtorfriedhof in Lübeck.

Military awards

• Iron Cross (1914)
  • II class
  • 1st class - received in November 1914
• Lübeck Hanseatic Cross - received on November 20, 1915

In 1921, Pagels created the mausoleum for Emil Possehl on the Burgtorfriedhof . He was also represented at Berlin cemeteries with tomb art, in particular at the Lichterfelde park cemetery and at the Frankfurt main cemetery , a figure of Christ he designed adorned the Kremsky tomb.

Time of the Weimar Republic

Through the mediation of the horticultural director Erwin Barth , who came from Lübeck, he was commissioned in 1925 to create a group of figures that were to decorate the entrance to the Jungfernheidepark and at the same time symbolize the idea of ​​the Volkspark. Of the two-part group, only one of the two bears with children playing has survived after the Second World War. In 2011, a true-to-original replica of the second bear was set up on Bärenplatz in Jungfernheide Park .

Nazi era

At the time of National Socialism , Pagels was best known for his Adolf Hitler busts. Hitler bought the Schwimmerin plant from Pagels for 8,000 Reichsmarks . Pagel's works were also shown during the Nazi era in 1936 at the Great Munich Art Exhibition , where he was represented with marble and bronze busts by Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel , Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt and Colonel General Walther von Brauchitsch . In 1940 his bronze busts of Rudolf Hess , Joseph Goebbels and Benito Mussolini were exhibited in the Haus der Deutschen Kunst in Munich .

Works (selection)

Chicken thief figure , around 1912

• Family grave of the Pagels family in the Burgtorfriedhof. Relief from 1908
• Bust of the sculptor Eugen Drippe (1905), sandstone, height 41 cm, Alte Nationalgalerie Berlin (purchased in 1907)
• Roller puller , Museum Essen
• Miner's widow , marble group, Museum Folkwang Essen (donated by Gustav and Bertha Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach )
• Bust of Friedrich Gammann
• Wandervogel (1912), limestone, Museum for Art and Cultural History of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
• Klabautermann in Bremerhaven, 1911.
• Fischjungenbrunnen, Bremerhaven, destroyed in World War II
• Sower (1920s), Berlin Botanical Garden
• Bear with children (1925–1928), shell limestone, Jungfernheide park
• Bronze relief Heinrich Kuhlmann (1928)
• Memorial of the Mariengemeinde (1929), Marienkirchhof (Lübeck)
• Wedding fountain (1947–1948), bronze (height 70 cm), on a sandstone base (height 1.50 m), Tempelhofer Damm, inner courtyard of the Berlin-Tempelhof town hall
• Relief by Thomas Mann , 1957, attached to the Buddenbrookhaus in Lübeck's Mengstrasse ; last of Pagel's works

literature

• Pagels, Hermann-Joachim H. In: Herrmann August Ludwig Degener (Ed.): Wer ist’s . 8th, completely revised and expanded edition. HA Ludwig Degner, Leipzig 1922, p. 1146 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Pagels, Hermann Joachim . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 26 : Olivier – Pieris . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1932, p. 140 .
• Paul Kühn: Hermann Joachim Pagels. In: Illustrirte Zeitung JJ Weber, Leipzig 1911, No. 3533 v. March 16, 1911.
• Behnhaus Museum. Catalog, Lübeck 1976, p. 145, No. 291. (= Lübeck Museum Catalogs . Volume III.)
• Obituary. In: Lübeckische Blätter . Born in 1960, p. 57.
• Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 .

Web links

Commons : Hermann Joachim Pagels  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry on Pagels ( memento from February 10, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) on bildhauerei-in-berlin.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ida Boy-Ed : Myself?
2. ↑ Peter Bloch: Ethos and Pathos. The Berlin Sculpture School 1786–1914, with short biographies of Berlin sculptors. Volume 2, Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-7861-1599-0 , p. 530.
3. ^ Herrmann AL Degener (ed.): Pagels, Hermann Joachim Heinrich. In: Who is it? 3rd edition, Degener, Leipzig 1908, p. 1010 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
4. ↑ Irene von Treskow: The Art Nouveau porcelains of the KPM (= materials for the art of the 19th century, volume 5). Prestel, Munich 1971, p. 260.
5. ↑ Chicken thief , Allach porcelain.
6. ↑ Lübecker General-Anzeiger from November 24, 1914, category: Promotions.
7. ↑ Lübeck city archives in terms of Senate files: Directory of the owner of the Lübeckischen Hanseatic Cross. Signature 1093.
8. ↑ Uta Lehnert: A voice for the dead: the Parkfriedhof Lichterfelde. Edition Hentrich, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-89468-204-3 , p. 46. (= German past. Volume 124.)
9. ↑ Birgitt Eltzel: The second bear is back. In: Berliner Zeitung. 7th / 8th May 2011.
10. ↑ Adolf Hitler bust ( Memento of the original from June 12, 2016 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. at thirdreichart.com (English). 
11. ↑ Swimmer in the House of German Art.
12. ^ Ernst Klee: The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 404.
13. ^ Directory of paintings and sculptures in the Royal National Gallery in Berlin. Mittler, Berlin 1908, p. 168 (No. 229).
14. ^ Ekkehard Mai, Hans Pohl, Stephan Waetzoldt: Art policy and art promotion in the Empire. Art in the course of social and economic history (= art, culture and politics in the German Empire. Volume 2.) Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-7861-1322-X , p. 68.