Loevy

This article deals with the Berlin entrepreneurial family and art foundry Loevy. For further meanings, see Loevy (disambiguation) .

Loevy is the name of a Berlin entrepreneurial family and their art foundry, which operated as S. A. Loevy .

family

• Samuel Abraham Loevy (1826–1900)
  He came to Berlin from the Prussian province of Posen in the mid-19th century and founded the company.
• Albert Loevy (1856–1925), son of Samuel Loevy
  1883 master brass caster
  In the 20th century, focus on commercial management.
• Siegfried Loevy (1859–1936), son of Samuel Loevy
  father of Erich Gloeden
  In the 20th century, focus on artistic direction.
  Buried in St. Elisabeth Cemetery I in Berlin-Mitte.
• Erich Loevy (1888–1944), since 1918 Erich Gloeden , architect

Family members were murdered in concentration camps .

Companies

On April 1, 1855, Samuel Loevy founded the "Roth and Yellow Foundry" at Große Hamburger Straße 8 in Berlin-Mitte . He soon specialized in art foundry for bronze . In 1865 the company moved within Berlin-Mitte to the Scheunenviertel , where many Jewish craftsmen were based. In 1898 the company moved to Gartenstrasse 158 (today No. 96) in Berlin-Mitte.

From 1885 Albert and Siegfried continued to run the company as the Loevy brothers .

After the National Socialists came to power , the Jewish company ran into trouble. In 1934 the company premises in Gartenstrasse had to be sold to the Deutsche Reichsbahn . The company moved to Neuenburger Strasse 29 in Kreuzberg . In 1939 operations finally had to be stopped.

Products

Over the decades, the foundry produced countless individual pieces as well as small series of sculptures. The largest sculpture was a six-meter-high Dioscuri couple by Eberhard Encke .

They attracted attention with fittings (for doors and furniture) from the Art Nouveau and Art Deco periods . Many well-known designers and architects of the period designed for the bronze goods factory: Henry van de Velde , Peter Behrens , Bruno Paul , Heinrich Straumer , Walter Gropius , Ludwig Mies van der Rohe , Erich Mendelsohn , Wilhelm Wagenfeld . Walter Gropius designed the so-called Gropius door handle for Loevy in particular .

The German people

Inscription on the Reichstag

In 1916, the inscription DEM DEUTSCHEN VOLKE on the Reichstag building was cast from two French cannon barrels captured from the Wars of Liberation , based on a design by Peter Behrens .

Appreciations

• 1896 “Prussian State Medal for Commercial Achievements” at the Berlin Commercial Exhibition
• 1910 Royal Prussian purveyor to the court for the bronze work on the last new Wilhelmine palace in Posen
• 1999 film “The Loevys - A Family History”, Armin D. Steuer
• 2001 Memorial plaque for the Loevy family in the west entrance of the Reichstag building
• 2003 Exhibition in the Jewish Museum Berlin

literature

• Helmuth F. Braun, Michael Dorrmann: "The German People". The story of the Berlin bronze caster Loevy . Dumont, 2003, ISBN 3-8321-7838-4 (on the exhibition in the Jewish Museum Berlin).
• Bernd Oertwig : The accomplishers of the Reichstag . In: The Parliament , No. 6/7, February 4, 2013.

Web links

• Armin D. Steuer: Reichstag: Letters for the Fatherland. In: one day , October 11, 2007.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Helmuth F. Braun, Michael Dorrmann: "Dem Deutschen Volke". The story of the Berlin bronze caster Loevy. P. 79
2. ↑ Gropius-Drücker ( Memento of the original from September 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Armin D. Steuer - loevy.de
4. ↑ Unveiling of the memorial plaque by the President of the Bundestag at bundestag.de
5. ^ Exhibition in the Jewish Museum Berlin