Karl Garbers (sculptor)

Garber's relief on the Haerlin family grave , Ohlsdorf cemetery

Karl Georg Ludwig Garbers , also Carl Garbers (born May 11, 1864 in Hamburg , † July 28, 1943 there ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Karl Garbers studied at the School of Applied Arts in Hamburg and from 1891 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden . He was considered a master student of Ernst Julius Hähnel .

After receiving a scholarship in 1895 , he went on a three-year study trip to Paris with Ernst Barlach . Barlach himself stayed in Paris for only a year. His study trip to Paris took him stylistically into the eventful French Neo-Baroque .

Together with Barlach, he worked on orders for the Hamburg City Hall , the Altona City Hall and the administration of the Hamburg-America Line .

From 1898 he lived and worked in Hamburg, where, among other things, he worked as a teacher at the arts and crafts school from 1901 to 1908. In 1911 he joined the Hamburg Artists' Association .

The Lauchhammer foundry carried out several of his work between 1901 and 1934.

Garbers was with Dora Garbers, geb. Bacher, married. He died with her on July 28, 1943 in a bomb attack on Hamburg during Operation Gomorrah . He was buried with her in the collective grave complex of the bomb victims' war cemetery at the Ohlsdorf cemetery.

Works (selection)

1901: Grave figure with wreath, Hamburg, Lauchhammer
1901: Girl with wine jug / Rheinische Hebe / Schankmaiden, Lauchhammer
1905: Neptune figure, Hamburg, Lauchhammer
1907: Grave figure and wreath, Hamburg, Lauchhammer
1909: Two grave figures, Hamburg-Ohlsdorf, Lauchhammer
1909: Children's group for a tomb, Hamburg, Lauchhammer
1911: Grave figure, Hamburg-Ohlsdorf, Lauchhammer
1911: Grave figure with wings, Hamburg-Ohlsdorf, Lauchhammer
1911: Grave figure without wings, Hamburg-Ohlsdorf, Lauchhammer
1912: Crouching grave figure, Hamburg-Ohlsdorf, Lauchhammer
1912: Grave figure, Hamburg-Ohlsdorf, Lauchhammer
1913: Kneeling grave figure, Hamburg-Ohlsdorf, Lauchhammer
1934: Grave figure in bronze, 1.20 m, Hamburg, Lauchhammer

literature

Garbers, Karl. In: Ernst Rump : Lexicon of visual artists in Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area. Otto Bröcker, Hamburg 1912, p. 43. ( digitized version )
Garbers, Karl . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 13 : Gaab-Gibus . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1920, p. 168 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Garbers, Karl Georg Ludwig. In: Gustav Pauli , Peter Hirschfeld, Karl Wilhelm Tesdorpf and Hans Leip : Hundred Years of Hamburg Art. 1832-1932. Verlag Br. Sachse, Hamburg 1932 ( digitized version ).
Heinz Spielmann : Sculptor in Hamburg 1900–1972. Professional Association of Visual Artists Hamburg (ed.). Hans Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1972, ISBN 978-3-7672-0194-1 (not paginated ).
Garbers, Karl. In: Heinz Zabel : Plastic Art in Hamburg - Sculptures and sculptures in public space. 2nd edition Dialog-Verlag, Reinbek 1987, ISBN 3-923707-15-0 , pp. 23, 67, 84.
Garbers, Carl . In: Volker Plagemann (Hrsg.): Art in public space. A guide through the city of Hamburg. Junius Verlag, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-88506-275-5 , pp. 26, 42, 57-58, 67, 69-70.
Maike Bruhns : Garbers, Carl. In: The new rump. Lexicon of the visual artists of Hamburg. Ed .: Rump family. Revised new edition of Ernst Rump's dictionary. Supplemented and revised by Maike Bruhns. Wachholtz, Neumünster 2013, ISBN 978-3-529-02792-5 , p. 141.

Web links

Commons : Karl Garbers - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Karl Garbers on the website of the Art Casting Museum Lauchhammer

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Karl Garbers: Rheinische Hebe / Schankmaiden on kunstgussmuseum-lauchhammer.de
↑ Barlach's biography on the Barlach House website.
↑ ^a ^b Ernst Barlach: The letters. Critical edition in four volumes. Volume II. An edition project of the Ernst Barlach Foundation Güstrow and the Ernst Barlach House Hamburg at the University of Rostock. o. S.
↑ Garbers, Karl . In: Ernst Rump : Lexicon of visual artists in Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area. Otto Bröcker, Hamburg 1912, p. 43.
↑ Mitteldeutsche Stahlwerke AG (ed.): Lauchhammer Bildguß . Lauchhammer 1938, p. 298-309 .

personal data
SURNAME	Garbers, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Garbers, Karl Georg Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	May 11, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH	July 28, 1943
Place of death	Hamburg

[Lauchhammer-1] A ^b Karl Garbers: Rheinische Hebe / Schankmaiden on kunstgussmuseum-lauchhammer.de

[2] Barlach's biography on the Barlach House website.

[Rostock-3] Ernst Barlach: The letters. Critical edition in four volumes. Volume II. An edition project of the Ernst Barlach Foundation Güstrow and the Ernst Barlach House Hamburg at the University of Rostock. o. S.

[4] Garbers, Karl . In: Ernst Rump : Lexicon of visual artists in Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area. Otto Bröcker, Hamburg 1912, p. 43.

[5] Mitteldeutsche Stahlwerke AG (ed.): Lauchhammer Bildguß . Lauchhammer 1938, p. 298-309 .