Karl Möbius (sculptor)
Karl Möbius (born May 20, 1876 in Borna near Leipzig, † February 27, 1953 in Berlin ) was a German sculptor . He studied at the Dresden School of Applied Arts and the Berlin Art Academy . Möbius created a large number of works related to German colonial history and is therefore an outstanding representative of colonial sculpture.
Works
Monuments
- 1909/1914: Carl-Peters , intended for a construction in Dar es Salaam in 1914, which was prevented by the outbreak of war; Returned to Germany by the British in 1921 and erected in Helgoland in 1931. 1944 melted down for armament purposes except for the head preserved as a bust
- 1912: Hans Dominik monument in Kribi ( Cameroon ), moved to Frankfurt (Oder) in 1933 , melted down in 1942 for armament purposes
- 1913: Hans-Dominik-Monument for Yaoundé (Cameroon), later erected in Hamburg, at the university
- 1921: Javelin thrower sculpture in the Volkspark Wilmersdorf in Berlin, melted down for armaments purposes in 1944, erected in 1954 as a replica
- received as a second casting in 1931 for the Allianz Stadium in Berlin-Mariendorf
- 1922: Workers' monument in Oldenburg, at the Friedrich-August-Hütte
- 1925: Bronze medallion on the colonial memorial stone in Nordhausen, not preserved
- 1926: Carabinier memorial in Borna, Fallen Memorial of the Royal Saxon Carabinier Regiment (2nd Heavy Regiment)
- 1926: Obelisk as a memorial to the fallen for the Cameroon Protection Force in Frankfurt (Oder), not preserved
- 1931: Monument "German land in foreign hands" on the Döberitz military training area (monument to commemorate the colonies and territories lost in 1919 by the Treaty of Versailles ), not preserved
- 1933: Relief on the memorial for those who died during internment 1916–1919 of the Cameroon Protection Forces on Fernando Poo in Malabo (Equatorial Guinea)
- 1933: Colonial war memorial in Halle (Saale), melted down for armament purposes during World War II
- before 1939: Gerhard Rohlfs monument in Libya
Small sculptures
- African woman with babies
- Standing horse
- Kneeling beggar woman
- mother with child
- Memorial statuette Friedrich von Erckert (1909)
- Patrol rider of the German South West Africa protection force (ca.1910)
Badges and medals
- Colonial Badge (Order of the Elephants) (1922)
- Colonial Award (Order of the Lion) (1922)
- Honor plaque of the German Colonial Society (1928)
- Yaoundé plaque as an officer's gift from the Cameroonian Officers Comradeship (small relief or plaque based on the image of the relief from Malabo) (1929)
Web links
Commons : Karl Möbius - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Arne Schöfert: Karl Möbius. A German sculptor. 2015. ( reichskolonialamt.de PDF)
literature
- Möbius, Karl . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 24 : Mandere – Möhl . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1930, p. 608 .
- Möbius, Karl . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 404 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Joachim Zeller: Colonial Monuments and Historical Consciousness. An examination of the colonial German culture of remembrance. IKO-Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-88939-544-9 .
- ↑ Gerald D. Feldman : The alliance and the German insurance industry 1933-1945. CH Beck, Munich 2001, p. 27.
- ↑ Königlich Sächsisches Karabinier-Regiment (2nd Heavy Regiment) on wiki-de.genealogy.net , accessed on February 8, 2018.
- ^ Postcard, around 1931, inventory no. 1988 / 287.22 at the German Historical Museum .
- ↑ Bulletin of the traditional association of former Schutz- und Überseetruppen eV No. 62.
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SURNAME | Möbius, Karl |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 20, 1876 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Borna near Leipzig |
DATE OF DEATH | February 27, 1953 |
Place of death | Berlin |