Hermann Lickfeld

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"The archer" from 1935 by Lickfeld in Luisental in Mülheim
"Collapsing warrior" at the Mülheim cemetery of honor

Hermann Lickfeld (born June 27, 1898 in Alstaden , † July 31, 1941 in Gießen ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Lickfeld came from a working-class family and worked as a lathe operator for ten years in the Thyssen factory . He lived in the building of the former elementary school in the Mülheim district of Ickten.

The work of art collapsing warriors from 1933 is located as a memorial on the Mülheim war cemetery on the Großer Berg in Uhlenhorst. The Westphalian State Museum voted his sculpture Standing Girl in February 1936 as the work of art of the month.

According to the design by the sculptor Harry Liebmann , Hermann Lickfeld made the cast model of the pioneer on the war memorial 1914-18 of the Rhenish and Westphalian pioneers and traffic troops at the water station ; the monument was ceremoniously unveiled on September 5, 1937.

In May 2011 the sculpture The Archer from 1935 was stolen by suspected metal thieves in Mülheim and found damaged a few days later. The statue was brought to Hamburg to be melted down in the Second World War because of the shortage of metal, but was found without an arch after the end of the war and transported back to Mülheim.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1930: Rhenish Secession , annual exhibition in the Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf. Lickfeld participated with his bust portrait of Frau Ey .

honors and awards

In 1978 in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Hermann-Lickfeld-Strasse was named after him.

The Hermann Lickfeld Prize for Fine Arts has existed in Mülheim since 2001, endowed with 2000 euros and awarded annually to an outstanding artist by a jury of seven experts.

literature

  • Christel Denecke: Hermann Lickfeld . Exhibition catalog, Städtisches Museum Mülheim (Ruhr), exhibition for the 70th birthday in the foyer of the town hall from August 31 to October 5, 1968

Other sources

  • City archive Mülheim an der Ruhr, holdings 1623 (Hermann Lickfeld estate)
  • City archive Mülheim an der Ruhr, inventory 1550 No. 111

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans Vollmer, Ulrich Thieme: General Lexicon of the Visual Artists of the XX. Century , page 228, 1953
  2. ↑ Dieter Strunck: Mülheim is beautiful . In: Old? So what! , Mülheim senior newspaper No. 58/2005, page 8 (PDF file; 3 MB)
  3. ^ Gerd Dethlefs: Treasury of Westphalian Art and Forum of Modernism . In: Heimatpflege in Westfalen , No. 2/2008, page 7 (PDF file; 2.1 MB)
  4. ↑ picture of the bust portrait of Mrs. Ey
personal data
SURNAME Lickfeld, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Alstaden
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 1941
Place of death to water