Hermann Lohrisch

Hermann Lohrisch (born August 21, 1922 in Chemnitz , † August 15, 2015 in Oranienburg ) was a German wood sculptor , draftsman and watercolor painter .

Life

Hermann Lohrisch was born in Chemnitz in 1922 as one of three children of the entrepreneur Margarete Kühn and the architect Arnold Lohrisch. His godmother was Margarete Junge , who in 1907 was the first woman to get a job at the Royal Saxon School of Applied Arts in Dresden as a teacher for the newly founded women's class. The two entrepreneurs Margarete Wendt and Margarete Kühn, founders of Wendt & Kühn , studied with Margarete Junge and remained on friendly terms with their teacher for a lifetime.

At the age of 14, at the suggestion of Margarete Junge, Hermann Lohrisch began training at the state technical college for wood carving in Oberammergau . He then studied in Dresden at the former Dresden School of Applied Arts, renamed by the National Socialists as the “State Master School of Crafts” . He took u. a. architectural sculpture with Rudolf Born and drawing with Walter Flemming . During the bombing raids on Dresden , he kept a fire watch in the basement of the Kunstgewerbeschule and helped extinguish the fire.

After the Second World War he worked as a freelance sculptor and restorer and moved to Augustusburg in 1946 . In 1955 he exhibited in the municipal museum in Zwickau . In 1958 he moved to Kleinmachnow and worked in the field of monument preservation and as a restorer for the Märkisches Museum in Berlin . He received numerous commissions for free artistic work within the church. Works by Hermann Lohrisch can be found today in various churches in Brandenburg . So have z. B. the village church Bardenitz a folding altar by him from the 1960s, the church Sankt Johannis in Luckenwalde a memorial created in 1964 for the victims of the war and the Resurrection Church in Kleinmachnow several sculptures by Lohrisch. Works by Lohrisch can also be found in the Museum of Saxon Folk Art .

In 2003, Hermann Lohrisch gave the archive of the Dresden University of Fine Arts a portfolio with around 100 drawings by his godmother Margarete Junge. Hermann Lohrisch died in 2015 in a nursing home in the Oranienburg district of Zehlendorf .

literature

• Lohrisch, Hermann . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 254 .
• Marion Welsch: Margarete Junge as a supporter and friend of former students and their families. "The boy is going to Oberammergau" . In: Marion Welsch, Jürgen Vietig (eds.): Margarete Junge: Artist and teacher on the move into modernity . Sandstein, Dresden 2016, ISBN 978-3-95498-218-9 , pp. 117-118 .
• Rainer Ehert (Ed.): Hermann Lohrisch. Sculptures in the church . 2002.

Web links

• Ephraim Rosenstein : "It's me and nobody else". Film portrait about Hermann Lohrisch. October 2002, accessed on January 10, 2017 (running time 28.5 minutes). 
• Henry Klix: Mourning for Hermann Lohrisch. Potsdam latest news . August 21, 2015, accessed January 10, 2017 . 
• Mourning for Hermann Lohrisch. August 20, 2015, accessed January 10, 2017 . 
• Obituary and funeral speeches. Evangelical parish Kleinmachnow. October 5, 2015, accessed January 10, 2017 . 
• 2. Entry in the Golden Book of Kleinmachnow. October 15, 2008, accessed January 10, 2017 . 
• Works by Hermann Lohrisch in the Museum of Saxon Folk Art. State Art Collections Dresden . Retrieved January 10, 2017 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cordula Bischoff, Igor Jenzen: Grete Kühn . In: 100 years of Wendt & Kühn. Dresden Modernism from the Ore Mountains . Chemnitzer Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-944509-31-0 , p. 60 .
2. ↑ Cordula Bischoff: The first women's class of the Royal Saxon School of Applied Arts in Dresden . In: Marion Welsch and Jürgen Vietig (eds.): Margarete Junge. Artist and teacher on the move to the modern age . Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2016, ISBN 978-3-95498-218-9 , pp. 84-103 .