Martin Reiner (sculptor)

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Louis-Fürnberg monument in the park on the Ilm

Martin Reiner (born October 1, 1900 in Kispest , Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary , † April 13, 1973 in Prague , Czechoslovakia ) was a Prague architect and sculptor .

Residential and commercial building in Prague-Žižkov

He originally studied architecture and from the mid-1930s ran an architecture office in Prague with Julius Landsmann. In 1939 he turned to sculpture. In the GDR he became known through the Louis-Fürnberg-Monument in Weimar , whose head he created in 1961 on a pedestal by Franz Dospiel . Most of the time, however, he worked in stone. Mainly he dealt with portrait sculpture .

buildings

  • 1936/37: tenement house in Prague-Holešovice, Pplk. Sochora 426/7
  • 1936/37: residential and commercial building in Prague-Žižkov, Sudoměřská 1897/1
  • 1938: Residential and commercial building in Prague New Town, Štěpánská 534/4
  • 1938: Tenement in Prague-Bubeneč, Nad Královskou oborou 101/3
  • 1938: Tenement house in Prague-Holešovice, U letenského sadu 374/5

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lukeš, Zdeněk: Settling the debt: German-speaking architects in Prague 1900–1938 (Splátka dluhu: Praha a její německy hovořící architekti 1900–1938) . Praha: Fraktály Publishers, 2002, 217 pp. ISBN 80-86627-04-7 . Section Martin Reiner, pp. 158-162
personal data
SURNAME Reiner, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Kispest , Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1973
Place of death Prague , Czechoslovakia