Josef Erber (sculptor)
Josef Erber (born March 30, 1904 in Munich ; † October 20, 2000 there ) was a German sculptor and caricaturist .
Life
Josef Erber was born in the Giesing district of Munich. After a stonemason apprenticeship, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts . He belonged to the circle of artists around the Flossmann Villa in the Munich suburb of Obermenzing .
One of his early works was a large stone eagle relief with a lion and an owl, which he made for the Deutsches Museum in 1932 together with Karl Killer . Unlike most of his colleagues at the time, Erber was not involved in the further development of the museum in the conservative-folk style and did not exhibit at the Great German Art Exhibition .
In 1934 he married the sculptor and ceramic artist Marianne Flossmann, Josef Flossmann's daughter . Both lived in the studio house on Marsopstrasse for the rest of their lives.
As a caricaturist, Erber drew every now and then for “ Simpl ” from the end of 1946 .
Works
- Fountain monument for Weiß Ferdl ( Viktualienmarkt , Munich), 1953, bronze and limestone
- Franziskusbrunnen (Josephsplatz, Munich-Maxvorstadt ), 1961 using the remains of the Jonas fountain by Hubert Netzer from 1911, shell limestone, which was destroyed in the war
- Fountain at the grave of August Exter , ( Munich-Obermenzing cemetery ), 1962
- Impeller , (corner of Lortzing- / Scapinellistraße, Munich-Pasing ), iron
- Monument on Max-Mannheimer-Platz in Dachau
Awards
- In 1986 Erber received the Pasinger Art and Culture Prize
Web links
- Angela Scheibe-Jaeger: The sculptors of the Obermenzing artists' colony in Obermenzinger Hefte , Dec. 2010, page 13/14 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Angela Scheibe-Jaeger: Illustrious residents and hidden treasures in Obermenzing. Kulturforum München-West, accessed on August 13, 2012 (press release).
- ↑ Hartmut Petzold: On the decoration of the court of honor and the congress hall of the Deutsches Museum, 1928 to 1958 . September 24, 2008, p. 12 ( uni-heidelberg.de [PDF; 6.3 MB ; accessed on August 14, 2012]).
- ↑ for the first time for the December 1946 edition, cf. Hard work . In: The Simplicity . 1st year, no. 16 . Freitag-Verlag, Munich December 1946, p. 190 ( Digitized [accessed August 14, 2012] Published under Military Government Information Control License No. US-E-148).
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SURNAME | Erber, Josef |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor and caricaturist |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 30, 1904 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
DATE OF DEATH | October 20, 2000 |
Place of death | Munich |