Ludwig Vordermayer

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Ludwig Vordermayer (born December 25, 1868 in Munich , † June 20, 1933 in Berlin ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Vordermayer attended the teaching facility of the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Berlin in 1888/90 . In 1890/91 he was a student with Peter Breuer , then until 1894 with Karl Begas . From 1893 Vordermayer was represented at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition .

Little is known about his life so far. He devoted himself to depicting animals. The foundry Gladenbeck in Berlin had several of his small works in their catalogs. He also created Masonic art and was probably a member of the lodge himself.

Vordermayer died in Berlin and was buried in the Berlin cemetery of the St. Matthias community.

Grave in the St. Matthias Cemetery in Berlin, probably designed by himself
Moose in Gumbinnen (Гусев)

Works

  • 1900 "Sandal Binder"
  • 1900 “Perseus with the head of Medusa”, copy after a bronze sculpture by Benvenuto Cellini (16th century); Lantz'scher Park , Düsseldorf
  • 1903 "Hahn" (bronze, National Gallery Berlin; another copy at the Kunsthalle Hamburg )
  • 1906/07 fountain for the "Fürstenhof" hotel in Berlin (destroyed during World War II )
  • 1909 "Rabe" (bronze, National Gallery Berlin; another copy at the Kunsthalle Hamburg)
  • 1911 Colossal elk for the city of Gumbinnen , after 1945 in the Königsberg zoo , since 1991 back
  • 1915 Memorial stone with a seated eagle for the fallen soldiers of the First World War in the municipal cemetery in Berlin-Wilmersdorf
  • 1922 "Dying Eagle" on the 1914-18 war memorial of the Reitenden Feldjägerkorps , on the forest cemetery in Eberswalde
  • 1925 memorial for the fallen at the “Berliner Hütte” (refuge) in the Zillertal Alps
  • June 29, 1928 (model 1910/11) colossal elk for the city of Tilsit , after 1945 in the Königsberg zoo , back since 2006
  • 1929 "angry moose"
  • 1929 "philosopher"
  • Bust of Otto von Bismarck
  • "Mountain guide"
  • "Wood carrier"

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isA1--m7Avk
personal data
SURNAME Vordermayer, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 1933
Place of death Berlin