Hermann Lemperle

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Hermann Lemperle (born May 22, 1906 in Biberach an der Riss ; † September 19, 1983 in Stuttgart ) was a German art historian and athlete . He was one of the most famous German decathletes in the 1920s and 1930s.

Life

Hermann Lemperle was the fourth of nine children in an Upper Swabian merchant family. He attended the Biberacher secondary school and then the commercial college in Ravensburg . In Esslingen am Neckar , he completed a two-year apprenticeship as a clerk in 1923 and worked as a clerk in Stuttgart. From November 1926 he first studied sport at the German Sport University Cologne with “ Kleiner Matrikel ” . From 1932 to 1936 he studied art history at the Wilhelm Humboldt University in Berlin . With a thesis on Upper Swabian Baroque monasteries in relation to the landscape, he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. Until the outbreak of the Second World War, he was a research assistant with Wilhelm Pinder at the Humboldt University. After serving as first lieutenant in the mountain troops , he worked as an art historian and chief conservator at the Württemberg State Museum in Stuttgart . He was considered an expert in depicting the Madonna and portraits of the Virgin Mary .

Hermann Lemperle was involved in numerous social projects in the Holy Land and was a member of the German Association of the Holy Land . In 1975 he was appointed Knight of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher by Cardinal Grand Master Maximilien Cardinal de Fuerstenberg and invested in the order on December 6, 1975 in Essen by Franz Hengsbach , Grand Prior of the German Lieutenancy .

Decathlon

He was a participant in the Olympic Games in Amsterdam in 1928 and finished 19th. He started for the Marienburger SC and was German runner-up in the decathlon in 1928. Before the 1932 Olympics, he had to give up his sports career due to a meniscus injury . Before the final runner Fritz Schilgen, he was the penultimate runner in the first ever Olympic torch relay at the 1936 Olympic Games .

Lemperle was the model for the bronze sculpture “Decathlon Man” by the sculptor Georg Kolbe in the House of German Sports in Berlin, which was previously exhibited at the Berlin Academy of the Arts and at the Venice Biennale .

Fonts

  • Upper Swabian monastery complexes from the Baroque period and their relationship to the landscape , Thiele 1937
  • The Benedictine abbey Weingarten and its ideal prospectus , in: Schwäbische Heimat Bd. 2, 1951
  • The former Benedictine Abbey of Wiblingen near Ulm , Süddt. Verlag-Ges. 1955
  • The Biberach townscape as a work of art , in: Schwäbische Heimat Vol. 6, 1955
  • Das Jagd- und Lustschlösschen Favorita , in: Publications for nature conservation and landscape maintenance, Vol. 26, 1958
  • Guide through the Württembergisches Landesmuseum Stuttgart, Art History Collections , Kohlhammer 1959
  • Wiblingen Monastery Church , 1961
  • Madonnas: The Madonna in German sculpture , 1965
  • The Romantic Road in Colors , Verlag Die Schönen Bücher 1969, together with Wolf Strache

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b "Scientists and athletes" ( memento of the original from September 23, 2015 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. , Schwäbische Zeitung , November 29, 2003 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schwaebische.de
  2. ↑ a b "Decathlete Hermann Lemperle" ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 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. , Schwäbische Zeitung , August 14, 2004 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schwaebische.de
  3. ↑ a b "Georg Kolbe: Decathlete and Resting Athlete" , Association for the History of Berlin eV, accessed on September 23, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Lemperle, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and athlete
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Biberach an der Riss
DATE OF DEATH September 19, 1983
Place of death Stuttgart