Josef Erber (sculptor)

Weiß-Ferdl-Brunnen on the Munich Viktualienmarkt

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).

personal data
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

[kwest-1] Angela Scheibe-Jaeger: Illustrious residents and hidden treasures in Obermenzing. Kulturforum München-West, accessed on August 13, 2012 (press release).

[petz-2] 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]).

[simpl-3] r 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).