Hermann Perl

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Otto Gottlieb Hermann Perl (born April 5, 1878 in Königsberg , † January 12, 1967 in Hamburg ) was a German ceramist and sculptor .

life and work

Statue of the town house extension
Example wall relief in the old Elbe tunnel
War memorial in Hamburg-Hummelsbüttel

Otto Gottlieb Hermann Perl received his training at the Königsberg Art Academy . He was the nephew of the ceramicist Hermann Wessely and worked with him. His studio was in an apartment in Falkenried 3-5 in Hoheluft-Ost . This studio was bombed out during World War II.

The reliefs on the Hulbe House in Mönckebergstrasse were created around 1910/11 .

Hermann Perl became known in Hamburg in 1911 through the "tunnel animals" and other decorative ceramics in the Old Elbe Tunnel .

In 1912 Perl designed the model for wall fountains in the corridors for the Hamburg School of Applied Arts .

From 1916 to 1921 he worked on the expansion of the town house and designed the building sculpture on the facade of the connecting building in the form of larger-than-life stone figures :

  • Woman with a cloth, next to her vase with plants
  • male nude with cloth, shield with bundle of lictors

In 1925 he worked on the war memorial in Hummelsbüttel .

1928 Creation of the relief "Klinker" at the entrance of the cooperative assembly hall at Schlankreye 69 (today the foyer of the Holi cinema). In 1929 he made two “Spare in Time” figures in Max-Brauer-Allee 69.

Gravestone Anna and Hermann Perl,
Ohlsdorf cemetery

On the cemetery Ohlsdorf Perl was involved in tomb designs, such as:

  • 1912 Lindner family
  • 1914 Lehmann / Martens family
  • 1926 Lentz family
  • 1928 Borchers / Beyer family
  • 1946 Groot family

On the grave of his relative Wessely in the Ohlsdorf cemetery (grid square AB 10, directly on Norderstrasse) there is a tombstone for Anna and Hermann Perl .

literature

  • The new Rump - Lexicon of Hamburg's visual artists - Second edition 2013
  • Maike Bruhns - Building jewelry at Fritz Schumacher. A kaleidoscope of the arts. Hamburg 2013

Web links

Commons : Hermann Perl  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Yearbook of the Alster Association 1991
  2. ↑ Adam Hermann Wesseley and other links, also images at DDB
  3. ↑ Klaus Tornier: Hamburg-Hoheluft: the district of the century , AH Wesseley with illustrations, from page 99 on Google Books
  4. ↑ Heinrich Steinfath in: "Two Hummelsbüttlers designed the St. Pauli Elbe Tunnel: Hermann Perl and Hermann Wessely". in; Yearbook of the Alster Association 1991, page 44, online at DDB
  5. ↑ Alexandra Hinz: Everything new in the old Elbtunnel. Die Welt, February 4, 2001, accessed June 27, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Building jewelry from Fritz Schumacher. A kaleidoscope of the arts. Hamburg 2013
  7. ^ The new Rump - Lexicon of Hamburg's visual artists - Second edition 2013
  8. ↑ April 2017 integrated into the women's garden ( old location Groot sculpture )
personal data
SURNAME Perl, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Perl, Otto Gottlieb Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ceramist and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1967
Place of death Hamburg