Maria Ewel

Maria Ewel (born October 30, 1915 in Königsberg , † January 27, 1988 in Bremen ) was a German sculptor .

biography

Ewel was the youngest of four daughters of the Königsberg painter and art professor Otto Ewel . At the age of 13 she studied art - initially in evening classes - at the Königsberg Art Academy and from 1936 at the Dresden School of Applied Arts . In 1939 she was committed to military service.

From 1946 she continued her training at the Bremen Art School with Herbert Kubica . From 1948 to 1956 she was busy with the restoration of facades for the preservation of monuments, among other things for the Sparkasse Bremen . Since 1956 she worked as a freelance sculptor. Although she contracted polyarthritis in 1959 , she continued to work. From 1960 to 1985 she was represented in various solo and group exhibitions. Many of her sculptures were cast in bronze . There were exhibitions of her works in Pforzheim (1974), Ellingen (1983) and Bremen (1985).

Works

The Bear (1950), daycare center at Waller Park

Her style was classic, timeless and modern. She reduced her realistic, moving figures to the essentials. Several sculptures are publicly displayed in Bremen:

• The Bear (1950), daycare center at Waller Park
• Young Lion (1951), habenhausen school center in Obervieland
• Big Tiger (1955), green spaces on Hohentorsplatz in the Old Neustadt ,
• The rearing horse on Hohentorsplatz,
• Panther (1958), elementary school in Borgfeld
• Flying swan in the Hastedter cemetery,
• Girls with Tires (1967), in front of the Mayor Smidt School at Contrescarpe (center)
• 3 penguins (1968), Friedehorst special school in Burglesum ,
• Walfisch (1970), in the outdoor pool in Blumenthal ,
• Labyrinth (1971), special school on Färberstrasse in Vegesack .

In Ludwigshafen am Rhein the big tiger has been standing on Alwin-Mittasch-Platz since 1957 and a group of animals (1982) in the post office in Rastede .

Honors

• Culture Prize of the East Prussian Landsmannschaft (1985)

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
• Gisela Hildebrand: Ewel, Maria . In: Frauen Geschichte (n) , Bremer Frauenmuseum (ed.). Edition Falkenberg, Bremen 2016, ISBN 978-3-95494-095-0 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon . Wurzburg 2002
2. ^ Senator for Culture Bremen: art in the public space bremen.
3. ↑ Bremer Frauenmuseum - portraits of women: Ewel, Maria ( Memento of the original from October 12, 2013 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. .