Martin Götze (sculptor)

Martin Götze - signature

Ernst Martin Götze (born March 28, 1865 in Callnberg near Lichtenstein , † December 5, 1928 in Berlin ) was a German sculptor and medalist.

Life

Martin Götze, son of a master weaver, attended elementary school and then learned the weaving trade before studying wood sculpture at the Leipzig School of Applied Arts. At the same time he was working in the studio of the sculptor Melchior zur Strasse . In 1893 he received a major contract in Hamburg and lived in Uetersen for a few years . There he created in his studio, among other things, the admonishing angel statue on the frontispiece of the former chapel of the Old Cemetery and other statues for various grave sites. The warning angel statue on the former chapel was destroyed in 1967 when the chapel was demolished.

He is based in Berlin around 1900 and regularly exhibits at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition . In particular, busts and small bronzes were created in his studio. He was denied great success as a monument sculptor. Götze was supposed to model a bust of Theodor Mommsen for Kaiser Wilhelm II for the Walhalla near Regensburg in 1903 , but it was never erected there. His greatest known works are the Hardenberg monument on Dönhoffplatz in Berlin and the König-Albert- Brunnen in his hometown Lichtenstein-Callnberg. There is now a Martin-Götze-Str.

The exact date of Götze's death is unknown and is sometimes given as 1931. The Berliner Tageblatt reported his death on December 5, 1928. After Willi Wohlberedt , he was also buried in 1928 in the New Johannis Cemetery on Plötzensee in Berlin-Plötzensee .

Works

designation	image	Location whereabouts	Kind of material	Dating	Further information
Admonishing angel statue		Uetersen, cemetery chapel destroyed	statue	1893	Destroyed during demolition work in 1967
Duke Wilhelm of Württemberg			bust	1900	Great Berlin art exhibition
Glory of work			Bronze statuette	1900	Cast Gladenbeck (54 cm)
Work is crowning	Fig. [1]		Bronze statuette		Cast Gladenbeck (36 cm)
Triumph of work			Bronze statuette	1900	Guss Gladenbeck (49 and 38 cm)
Young violinist			Bronze statuette	1900	(43 cm)
Before the bath			Bronze statuette	1906	Guss Gladenbeck (44 cm); Great Berlin art exhibition
Grape eater			Bronze statuette	1906	Great Berlin art exhibition
Death mask of Kaiser Wilhelm I.			Death mask	1906	Great Berlin art exhibition
Karl August von Hardenberg		Berlin destroyed, reconstructed	Statue bronze	1907	destroyed around 1946/48; Reconstructed in 2006
Karl August von Hardenberg		Privately owned	Bronze statuette	1907	Replica of the monument
Huldrych Zwingli		Berlin, Zwinglikirche preserved	Statue bronze	1907
Gustav II Adolf		Berlin, Zwinglikirche preserved	Marble statue	1907
Joachim II		Berlin, Zwinglikirche preserved	Marble statue	1907
Hermann von Budde		German Museum of Technology Berlin received	Bust bronze	1909	Guss Gladenbeck
Hermann von Budde			medal Bronze	1909
Karl von Thielen		German Museum of Technology Berlin received	Bust marble	1910	formerly in the Transport and Construction Museum
Albert von Maybach		German Museum of Technology Berlin received	Bust marble	1910	formerly in the Transport and Construction Museum
Lady with greyhound			Bronze statuette	1910	Guss Heinze & Co., Berlin (46 cm)
Bloodsuckers in World Wars	see [2]		Medal iron	1915	as an important example of expressionist medals
King Albert Fountain		Lichtenstein-Callnberg	Bronze fountain	1905
Martin Luther			Bronze statuette
Lost a dream			Bronze statuette
In thought			Bronze statuette
Peace on Earth			Bronze statuette		(55 cm)
echo			Bronze statuette
Love spring			Bronze statuette
Fame (victory)			Bronze statuette
farewell			Bronze statuette
Soccer player			Bronze statuette		Cast Gladenbeck (36 cm)
Child with hunting dog (can't you speak?)		Privately owned	Bronze statuette		Cast Gladenbeck (13 cm)
Listening			Bronze statuette		Cast Gladenbeck (43 cm)
Venus in the forge of the volcano	Fig. [3]		Bronze statuette		Guss Gladenbeck (41 cm), auctioned in 2009

literature

• Goetze, Martin . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 14 : Giddens-Gress . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1921, p. 326 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Peter Bloch , Sibylle Einholz , Jutta von Simson (eds.): Ethos & Pathos - The Berlin Sculpture School 1786–1914 . Accompanying volume to the exhibition. Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-7861-1598-2
• Handbook of German Art Monuments Berlin . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-422-03038-7
• Dankmar Trier: Götze, Martin . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 57, Saur, Munich a. a. 2008, ISBN 978-3-598-22797-4 , p. 123.

Web links

Commons : Martin Goetze  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ernst Brütt, Gerhard Scharfenstein: Uetersen and its inhabitants in the last 150 years. Heydorn Verlag, 1995, p. 30.
2. ↑ Elsa Plath-Langheinrich : The old cemetery of Uetersen - how it was and what it is. in: Uetersener Nachrichten of March 9, 2013.
3. ↑ Elsa Plath-Langheinrich: The old cemetery of Uetersen - how it was and what it is. in: Uetersener Nachrichten of March 17, 2013.