Leopold Fleischhacker (sculptor)

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Eagle sculpture (1914) on the war memorial in Edermünde-Besse, Gudensberger Strasse / Raiffeisenstrasse

Leopold Fleischhacker (born May 13, 1882 in Felsberg (Hesse) an der Eder , † September 11, 1946 in Uccle in Belgium ) was a German sculptor and medalist .

Life

Leopold Fleischhacker attended the Düsseldorf School of Applied Arts from 1897 to 1902 with Clemens Buscher . On the side he was practically trained in stucco workshops . A year of traveling followed as a journeyman in the plasterer and plasterer trades . From 1903 to 1905 he was a student of Ernst Herter and Peter Breuer at the Berlin Art Academy . In 1905 the artist was awarded the Rome Prize of the Michael Beer Foundation , a scholarship for an eight-month study stay in Rome at the Villa Strohl-Fern .

From 1906 he lived in Düsseldorf and was initially an assistant in August Bauer's studio , whom he regarded as his most important teacher. From 1909 he was regularly involved in the annual exhibitions of the Barmen Art Association. In 1912 he moved into his first own studio in the house of the decorative painter August Blumenberg at Achenbachstrasse 75, in which the sculptor Franz Linden also had his studio. From 1913 to 1914, a bust of Theodor Herzl based on Fleischhacker's model was recorded in the galvanoplastic art institute of the Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik (WMF) . In 1919 he took part in the first exhibition of the artists' association “ Young Rhineland ” and moved into his last studio at Degerstraße 54. He took part in various competitions for war memorials, for example in 1921 in Elberfeld and 1928 in Düren . For the southern outer wall of the Great Synagogue in Düsseldorf , Leopold Fleischhacker designed a memorial in honor of the fallen parishioners of the First World War in the form of a mourner. For the exhibition pavilion “Hygiene of the Jews” at the Düsseldorf “ GeSoLei ” in 1926 he created reliefs on behalf of the Jewish community in Düsseldorf .

Until 1931 Leopold Fleischhacker was a member of the Düsseldorf artists' association " Malkasten ". In 1933, as a Jew, he was not accepted into the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts by the Reich Chamber of Culture , which meant something like a professional ban. Fleischhacker was only able to work for Jewish customers, for whom he mainly created tombs . During the Reichspogromnacht in November 1938 , his studio in Flingern-Nord was devastated and he and his wife Lotte first fled to friends in Cologne . Both then emigrated to Belgium , where they hid until the end of the Second World War. In Uccle, part of the Brussels region , he worked for a ceramics factory. From 1945 he again had his own studio in Brussels. He was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Dilbeek near Brussels.

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Sculpture (1930) on the facade of the house at Kasernenstrasse 61 in Düsseldorf
Former district court, right corner elevation with head medallions, Mühlenstraße, Düsseldorf (2018)
Gravestone for cattle dealer Moritz Marcus at the Schwelm Jewish cemetery

Leopold Fleischhacker mainly created portraits in bronze, stone and plaster as well as monumental and memorial sculptures, tombs and architectural decorations, but also depictions of animals. His best-known works are the “Rising Youth”, the bronze “Trakehner Stallion” and the sculpture “ Judith ”, which he himself carved out of marble . Memorials with works by him are in Felsberg, Wickrath , Düsseldorf and Duisburg . In the course of his life, Fleischhacker created around 250 gravestones, over 100 of which can be found in the Jewish cemetery on the grounds of the North Cemetery in Düsseldorf (access on Ulmenstrasse).

Awards

  • Rome Prize of the Michael Beer Foundation

Exhibitions

literature

Web links

Commons : Leopold Fleischhacker  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Achenbachstrasse 75, E. Blumenberg, August, decorative painter; Linden, Franz, art sculptor .; Fleischhacker, Leopold, art sculptor In: Address book for the city of Düsseldorf. 1914.
  2. ↑ Art sculptor: Fleischhacker, Leopold, 54 Degerstraße In: Address Book for the municipality of Dusseldorf. 1920.
  3. ^ Memorial in honor of the fallen parishioners of the synagogue In: Administrative report of the state capital Düsseldorf, from April 1, 1922 to March 31, 1925, p. 112.
  4. ^ After the exhibition, the reliefs were presented in the parish boardroom, which was destroyed in 1938.
  5. ↑ Leopold Fleischhacker , on friedhofulmenstrasse.wordpress.com, accessed on April 8, 2018.
  6. ↑ Illustration of a female bust by L. Fleischhacker (Hall 15) Large art exhibition In: Düsseldorfer Theater-Woche. Issue 53, from September 9, 1911.
  7. ↑ Special mention from the small sculptural department at the spring exhibition in Düsseldorf 1912: Orest von Leopold Fleischhacker In: Düsseldorfer Theater-Woche. Issue 83, April 6, 1912.
  8. ↑ View from the casino garden
  9. ↑ As a print in the magazine Kalonymos . 3, 2013, p. 10, general view of the sculpture.
  10. ↑ Marc Albano-Müller: Miss Herz, do you want to eat with us? , in: Contributions to the local history of the city of Schwelm and its surroundings, 65th volume, 2016. P. 48
  11. ↑ Barbara Kaufhold, Das Werk LFs, exhibited virtually. In: Kalonymos . 3, 2013, pp. 9-11. The exhibition is based on the numerous preserved photographs of 160 works of art (in contrast to the mostly destroyed originals). It also shows a small selection of the 220 remaining tombs. The works were electronically transformed into a 3D view. In addition, artist photographs, two audio documents and archive materials are presented. Trilingual, also in English and French. An online appearance of the exhibition is planned for a later time.
  12. ↑ considered by Kaufhold to be faulty
personal data
SURNAME Meat chopper, Leopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and medalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Felsberg (Hesse)
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 1946
Place of death Uccle / Ukkel , Belgium