Johannes Ernst Born

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Johannes Ernst Born , also Johann Ernst Born , (born December 20, 1884 in Niederfähre near Meißen , † 1958 ) was a German sculptor .

Life

War memorial in Pulsnitz
Cloth makers' fountain in Zasieki (Poland; belonged to Forst (Lausitz) until 1945)

Born studied from 1903 to 1906 in Dresden at the Royal Saxon School of Applied Arts under Karl Groß , then from 1907 to 1908 at the Dresden Art Academy under Georg Wrba . He worked as a sculptor in Dresden, where he later taught at the arts and crafts school. After the Second World War, Born lived and worked in the Upper Palatinate .

Works

  • around 1910: Plastic decoration of the tomb of the Küchenmeister family on the Johannisfriedhof in Dresden-Tolkewitz, Wehlener Straße (overall planning by the architects Beyrich and Richter; preserved)
  • 1910–1911: Competition design for a King Albert monument on the Lauenturm in Bautzen (among the three award-winning works, however, executed according to a design by Walter Hauschild )
  • Warrior Memorial World War I in Großröhrsdorf
    1920: War memorial for the victims of World War I (1914–1918) on the Protestant cemetery in Großröhrsdorf
  • 1921: War memorial for the fallen of Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 26 in Freiberg
  • 1923: Tuchmacherbrunnen on the Rathenauplatz in Forst (Lausitz)
    The fountain was created on the occasion of the new construction of the Long Bridge over the Lausitzer Neisse and the redesign of the two adjacent squares by the Forster City Planning Officer Rudolf Kühn .
  • 1925: Building sculpture on the administration building of the general local health insurance fund in Forst, Promenade 9 (architect: Rudolf Kühn; today used as town hall)
  • 1928: Reliefs made of molded clinker bricks based on motifs by the Brothers Grimm on the “Märchenhaus” residential building in Finsterwalde , Friedrich-Hebbel-Straße 16–22 (together with the sculptors Paul Wachs and Paul Lindau ; architect: Karl Dassel )
  • before 1930: War memorial 1914–18 in Cossebaude
  • before 1930: War memorial 1914–18 in Skassa
  • before 1930: War memorial 1914–18 in Pulsnitz
  • 1932: Memorial stone for Max Gross in Altenberg (Ore Mountains)
  • 1936: Bronze figure of a young man with a wing wheel in front of the administration building of the Reichsbahndirektion Dresden , Wiener Straße 5b (Architect: Richard Spröggel)
  • 1936: Memorial plaque for Carl Gustav Carus on the house where he died in Dresden, Carusstraße 18
  • 1942: Plastic javelin thrower , exhibited at the Great German Art Exhibition in 1942
  • 1943: Sculptures young man with falcon and awakening , exhibited at the Great German Art Exhibition in 1943
  • 1944: Sculptural bust of the painter Paul Groß and standing boy , exhibited at the Great German Art Exhibition in 1944
  • 1954: Sculpture of St. Florian, today in front of the Historical Fire Brigade Museum in Neu Tramm

literature

Web links

commons: Johannes Ernst Born, sculptor

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Catalog of the workshops for funerary art by Chr. Göbel & Co., Dresden-Tolkewitz, 1914, p. 20.
  2. ↑ Großröhrsdorf (monument). In: DenkFried - monuments and cemeteries. Retrieved June 28, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Märchenhaus ( Memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), Singer City Finsterwalde
  4. ↑ a b c Dressler's art manual 1930 (see literature )
  5. ↑ Photo of the Cossebaude war memorial on flickr
  6. ^ Hermann Ilgen : German grove of honor for the heroes of 1914/18. Dehain-Verlag, Leipzig 1931, p. 168 (with illustration).
  7. ^ Hermann Ilgen: German grove of honor for the heroes of 1914/18. Dehain-Verlag, Leipzig 1931, p. 69. (with illustration)
  8. ^ Hartmut Ellrich: Dresden 1933-1945. The historical travel guide. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86153-498-3 , p. 29.
  9. ^ Great German Art Exhibition in 1942 in the House of German Art in Munich . Official exhibition catalog. 1942, p. 23 ( online ).
  10. ↑ The image of war / representation in the symbolic . In: Litzmannstädter Zeitung . 26th year, no. 178 , June 27, 1943 (Online: Metadata , PDF, 6 MB ).
  11. ^ Great German Art Exhibition in 1943 in the House of German Art in Munich . Official exhibition catalog. 1943, p. 21 ( online ).
  12. ^ Great German Art Exhibition in 1944 in the House of German Art in Munich . Official exhibition catalog. 1944, p. 21 ( online ).
  13. ↑ Oh holy St. Florian: New unique items for the fire department museum. In: feuerwehr-schnega.de. 2010, accessed June 28, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Born, Johannes Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Born, Johann Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Lower ferry near Meissen
DATE OF DEATH 1958