Jacob Plessner

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Jacob Pleßner (born August 18, 1871 in Berlin ; died October 20, 1936 there ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Pleßner was the grandson of the learned rabbi Salomon Plessner (1797-1883). He initially received a four-year training course in building sculpture. As a student of the sculptor Ernst Westphal , he learned the craft of sculpting. Then he prepared to study with the painter Adolph von Menzel . He studied from 1896 to 1901 at the Berlin Art Academy under Professors Gerhard Janensch , Ernst Herter , Peter Breuer and animal studies with Paul Friedrich Meyerheim . His relief after work was awarded the Rome Prize of the Berlin Michael Beer Foundation. Associated stay from 1901 to 1903 at Villa Strohl-Fern in Rome .

Jacob Pleßner was buried in Berlin-Weißensee in the Jewish Adass-Jisroel cemetery .

In publications during his lifetime, his first name was spelled with "c", sometimes with "k" and his last name with "ss" or "ß". He himself signed a letter with "Jacob Plessner", as is the handwritten curriculum vitae.

Works (selection)

Commemorative plaque Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, today's location at Nikolaikirchplatz 7, Berlin-Mitte (2007)
  • 1902: Plastic begging women from Perugia , bronze; exhibited in 1907 at the Dresden exhibition, purchased by Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands
  • 1908: Relief on the field (farmers with team of oxen), bronze, signed
  • 1913: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing memorial plaque at the Tietz department store on Berlin's Königsgraben, where his Berlin house was located
  • 1929: Bust of Moses Mendelssohn , bronze
  • Bust of Oscar Tietz , bronze
  • Bust of Mrs. Minister von Studt , bronze
  • Bust of the factory owner, City Councilor Louis Sachs , bronze
  • Relief Rudolf Virchow , bronze
  • Portrait statuette of the actor Fritz Richard as an old farmer, bronze
  • 1929: Honor roll Minna Schwarz (1859–1936), black stone plaque, at or in the Minna-Schwarz-Heim, Brunnenstrasse 41, Berlin-Mitte (removed)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Curriculum vitae in article on the memorial plaque. In: Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums. Volume 78, issue 14, April 3, 1914, pp. 160–163 (PDF commemorative tables-in-berlin.de , accessed October 25, 2015).
  2. ^ Karl Schwarz: Jacob Plessner. In: East and West: illustrated monthly for all of Judaism. Issue 11, November 1909, columns 669-674, here column 669 ( sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de , accessed on November 13, 2015).
  3. Mentioned to the object "Bettelweiber Perugia" on the antique & restorer homepage Antiantiquitaeten-erfurt Lothar Czambor -Erfurt. ( antiquitaeten-erfurt.de , accessed on November 13, 2015).
  4. ^ Hermann Alexander Müller, Hans Wolfgang Singer: General Artist Lexicon . tape 6 . Literary Institute, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1922, p. 222 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive - spelling: Plessner, Jakob).
  5. The world stage . 27th year, 2nd semester. Charlottenburg July 7, 1931, p. 117 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive - spelling: Jacob Plessner).
  6. ^ Jacob Plessner, Otto Schneid: Otto Schneid Papers - Correspondence before 1939 . Berlin November 27, 1930 ( archive.org and archive.org - handwritten letter and photographs of 17 works).
  7. Memorial plaque of the Lessing house
  8. Mendelssohn bronze bust (1929)
  9. A plaque of honor was placed on or in the house in 1929 for her 70th birthday. The upper rounded part of the black stone tablet showed a young woman with an infant in her arms. It was donated by the women's association of the “B'nai B'rith” lodge and designed by the sculptor Jacob Pleßner (Berlin 1871 – Berlin October 20, 1936) commemorative panels-in-berlin.de