Maria Lerch

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Maria Lerch (born January 25, 1884 in Abtsgmünd , Württemberg , † May 13, 1962 in Bamberg , Upper Franconia , Bavaria ) was a German draftsman , sculptor and sculptor .

School and study

After visiting the elementary school she was at the high school for girls in Rheinberg near Gailingen and graduated with the intermediate certificate from. 1904 to 1906 prepared in Biberach for studies. From 1906 she studied in Munich at the Royal School of Applied Arts , where she studied sculpture with Jakob Brandl , which was her main interest. Study trips took her to Italy, Greece and Turkey as well as to Paris. After eight semesters, she passed her state examination as a drawing teacher in Munich .

Act

She settled in Bamberg, where she lived in the old smithy of the old court until her death and maintained her studio there. In this city she worked from 1915 as a gymnastics and drawing teacher at the higher girls' school .

In the 1920s and 1930s she was a frequent house guest of the family of the art collector and art patron Otto Bamberger in his Art Nouveau villa Sonnenhaus in Lichtenfels . He acquired various works by Lerch, including Christian sculptures made of clay such as Mary with the baby Jesus . The painter Otto Boveri (1868–1946) and the graphic artist Alfred Heinz Kettmann were also among her circle of friends .

From 1933 she worked artistically for the city of Herzogenaurach, where she created, among other things, the figure of Kilians at the fountain on Hauptstrasse and a statue of Mary on the Stone Bridge in 1934 , and a memorial for the fighter pilot Rudolf Berthold in 1937 .

In 1944 she left school and worked from then on as a freelance artist. After Bamberg was occupied by the Americans at the end of the Second World War , Maria Lerch worked as head of the sculpture department at the art school in the Bamberg moated castle Concordia, which the Americans temporarily set up for re-education for a period of around 18 months .

In 1948, on the occasion of the inauguration of the newly built Stone Bridge , she was made an honorary citizen of Herzogenaurach.

The deeply religious Maria Lerch worked with plaster of paris , stone , clay and wax , created grave and war memorials as well as statues of saints. Her works were commissioned for cities and parishes throughout Franconia. Lerch made a terracotta relief in the wedding room of the town house in Herzogenaurach, which shows a tree of life , and the Way of the Cross in the Catholic parish of St. Kunigund in Bamberg.

Exhibitions of her works took place in Bamberg, Bayreuth, Munich and Regensburg.

Maria Lerch died in Bamberg's Bürgerspital and was buried in the municipal cemetery there, Department III B 33. Her grave is part of the city's cultural and historical funeral path.

The city of Bamberg acquired Maria Lerch's estate.

Memberships

  • Christian Artists Guild Nuremberg (from 1946)

Honors

Permanent collection

The city of Herzogenaurach is showing works by Maria Lerch in the permanent collection of its city museum and her former studio in a production.

Exhibitions

  • 2009 - Maria Lerch , on the occasion of her 125th birthday, City Museum Herzogenaurach, April 25th to July 26th

literature

  • Maria Lerch . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 215 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Maria Lerch , on: kulturwerkstatt-bamberg.de
  2. ↑ Higher Girls School Bamberg (from 1911), on: eg-bamberg.de
  3. ^ Kiliansbrunnen , on: herhabenaurach.de
  4. ↑ Steinerne Brücke , on: herhabenaurach.de
  5. ↑ Look at the sculptor Maria Lerch , on: nordbayern.de
  6. ↑ a b Maria Lerch (1884–1962), sculptor, 2009 , on: herhabenaurach.de
  7. ↑ Kreuzweg , on: st-kunigund-bamberg.de
  8. ↑ Kulturhistorischer Grabmalweg (PDF file; 341 kB), on: stadt.bamberg.de
  9. ↑ The history of the BBK , on: bbk-nuernberg.de
  10. ↑ Awards of the city of Herzogenaurach , on: herhabenaurach.de
  11. ↑ Maria-Lerch-Weg in Bamberg , on: strassen-in-deutschland.de
  12. ↑ Maria-Lerch-Straße in Herzogenaurach , on: strassen-in-deutschland.de
  13. ↑ permanent collection , on: herhabenaurach.de
personal data
SURNAME Lerch, Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Abtsgmünd
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 1962
Place of death Bamberg