Martin Götze (sculptor)
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 |
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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 |
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Lost a dream | Bronze statuette |
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In thought | Bronze statuette |
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Peace on Earth | Bronze statuette |
(55 cm) | |||
echo | Bronze statuette |
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Love spring | Bronze statuette |
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Fame (victory) | Bronze statuette |
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farewell | Bronze statuette |
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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
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ernst Brütt, Gerhard Scharfenstein: Uetersen and its inhabitants in the last 150 years. Heydorn Verlag, 1995, p. 30.
- ↑ Elsa Plath-Langheinrich : The old cemetery of Uetersen - how it was and what it is. in: Uetersener Nachrichten of March 9, 2013.
- ↑ Elsa Plath-Langheinrich: The old cemetery of Uetersen - how it was and what it is. in: Uetersener Nachrichten of March 17, 2013.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Gotze, Martin |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Götze, Ernst Martin (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 28, 1865 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Callnberg near Lichtenstein |
DATE OF DEATH | December 5, 1928 |
Place of death | Berlin |