Martin Meyer-Pyritz

Relief on the tombstone of Adolph Hoffmann , Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde

Bust of the writer Wolfgang Kirchbach (1857–1906)

Martin AR Meyer-Pyritz (born November 6, 1870 in Pyritz ; † August 11, 1942 in Berlin ; born Martin Meyer ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Martin Meyer was the younger brother of the sculptor Georg Renatus Meyer, who initially called himself Georg Meyer-Pyritz, later Georg Meyer-Steglitz . He was especially valued for his animal sculptures.

Martin Meyer from Pyritz studied from 1892 to 1896 at the Academy of Arts in Berlin with Peter Breuer and Ernst Herter . From 1899 he worked in a studio at the academy. He exhibited at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition and also in the Munich Glass Palace . Because of his successful animal sculptures he became known as 'Tiermeyer'. Around 1935 Meyer-Pritz had his workshop in the studio house of the sculptor Johannes Röttger in Berlin-Wilmersdorf on Sächsische Straße 32.

He was a member of the German Association of Artists .

Martin AR Meyer-Pyritz died in Berlin in 1942 at the age of 71. His grave in the cemetery of the Bethlehem parish in Berlin-Kreuzberg has not been preserved and was probably destroyed during the Second World War. After his small grave slab was found again, the cemetery administration created a memorial for Meyer-Pyritz in the form of a tomb, in which she found a new place. The wife and son of Martin Meyer-Pyritz rest in the cemetery of the nameless .

Works

• Bust for the grave of Wolfgang Kirchbach in the Lichterfelde cemetery
• Porcelain figurine making dachshunds , designed in 1913, executed by Rosenthal in 1929
• Some animal sculptures for the Berlin Zoological Garden
• Artistic design of the subway stations on the route from Berlin-Wilmersdorf to Dahlem , in particular the animal sculptures at the subway station Rüdesheimer Platz ( ceramics - vine leaves , grapes, insects and reptiles etc., everything on the topic: life in a vineyard ) . In addition, artistic furnishings for the Breitenbachplatz underground station .
• Memorial stone for town planning officer Hermann Müller (1859–1917) on Hohenzollernplatz (lost)
• Numerous sculptures and monuments in different cities in Germany.
• Memorial stone on the grave of Ludwig , Werner and Horst Wessel

Martin Meyer-Pyritz was buried in the Bohemian Lutheran Bethlehem Cemetery in Berlin-Kreuzberg . His grave has been preserved.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sächsische Str. 32, E. (= Owner) Röttger, J., Prof. Bildh. (No. 38); Meyer-Pyritz, M., Sculptor T. (= Telephone) , in Berlin address book edition 1935, p. 1327
2. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the Deutscher Künstlerbund since it was founded in 1903 / Meyer-Pyritz, Martin AR ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on November 17, 2015) 
3. ↑ Debora Paffen, Hans-Jürgen Mende : The cemeteries in front of the Hallesches Tor. A cemetery guide . Part 1. Edition Luisenstadt, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89542-132-4 , pp. 76-77.
4. ^ Daniel Siemens : Horst Wessel: Death and Transfiguration of a National Socialist. Munich, Siedler, 2009, ISBN 978-3-88680-926-4 , p. 170.

literature

• Martin Meyer-Pyritz . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 24 : Mandere – Möhl . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1930, p. 475-491 .

Web links

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

• About Martin Meyer-Pyritz
• artnet.de: Martin AR Meyer-Pyritz (born 1870) (accessed November 17, 2015)