Martin Scheible
Martin Scheible (born March 10, 1873 in Neu-Ulm , † June 9, 1954 in Ulm ), also Johann Martin Scheible (more rarely), was a German sculptor and wood carver .
Life
From 1886 to 1889 Scheible received a stonemason training from Professor Heyberger in Ulm and then worked from 1889 to 1894 in Munich and Berlin (including on the construction of the Reichstag building ). He did military service in Munich from 1894 to 1896, worked in Munich workshops in 1897 and 1898 and studied from 1898 to 1900 in Munich at the Academy of Fine Arts under Professor Wilhelm von Rümann . From 1901 to 1907 he ran a sculpture studio in Munich with a fellow student. There he participated in the annual exhibitions of the Munich Secession in 1905 and 1906 .
In 1905 he married the Neu-Ulm butcher's daughter Emilie Bühler . In 1909 he moved from Munich to Ulm and opened his own workshop for sculpture and tomb art there. There he carried out his first public (1912 figure relief at the Ulm hospital on Safranberg) and private (1912 relief of the merchant's car above the entrance portal of the Müller department store, today Wöhrl-Plaza) orders.
In 1919 he was a founding member of the Ulm Artists' Guild . His grave and war memorials gave him a national reputation. Increasingly, he also occupied himself with sacred art, which led to his becoming the art representative of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg. Important works by him can be found in Ulm ( Ulm Minster , Martin Luther Church , Christ Church Ulm-Söflingen, Jakobuskirche Ulm-Grimmelfingen, etc.), in Stuttgart ( collegiate church , castle church in the old castle, former bishop's house at the seat of the Evangelical Higher Church Council, fountain figure in Courtyard of the Paul-Gerhardt-Church in Stuttgart, in the Reutlinger ( Marienkirche ) as well as in Albstadt , Bernstadt, Blaubeuren , Dettingen and Teck, Freudenstadt , Gammertingen (Mariaberg), Geislingen an der Steige , Gerlingen, Gönningen, Illertissen, Isny, Kusterdingen, Laupheim, Neu-Ulm (figural stone sculpture on the building of the Sparkasse), Pfahlheim and Truchtelfingen.
Significant works
- Christmas crib with wooden figures for the Ulm Minster, 1923 - usually displayed behind glass on the cross altar during the Christmas season.
- Extensive artistic equipment of the Martin Luther Church in Ulm between 1926 and 1928: crucifix, evangelist figures (both full sculptures made of wood) and pulpit cladding (carved reliefs made of wood), a large Luther bust made of concrete ,
- the pulpit in Ulm Minster in 1937,
- Interior of the Evangelical Church of Albstadt-Truchtelfingen 1939 to 1942.
- Wooden crucifix in the Protestant town church St. Peter and Paul, Blaubeuren 1940,
- Wooden crucifix in the collegiate church of Stuttgart 1943,
- the "seed dealer monument" in Gönningen near (Reutlingen) 1943
- Wooden crucifix in the castle church of the old castle in Stuttgart 1947
- Relief in the Evangelical St. James Church in Ulm-Grimmelfingen, “Let the little children come to me” (Blessing of children) from 1948
- Crucifix in the Evangelical Christ Church in Ulm-Söflingen 1949
- Keystone above the chorotagon of the Stuttgart collegiate church: the cross held by two angels as a reference to the collegiate church as "Church of the Holy Cross", around 1950
literature
- Brigitte Kärn: The sculptor Martin Scheible. Weinstadt 2001
- Helmut Kast: Evangelical St. James Church Ulm-Grimmelfingen. ed. from the Evangelical Church Community of Grimmelfingen, Ulm (no year)
- Frank Raberg : Biographical Lexicon for Ulm and Neu-Ulm 1802-2009 . Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft im Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2010, ISBN 978-3-7995-8040-3 , p. 359 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Scheible, Martin |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Scheible, Johann Martin (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor and wood carver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 10, 1873 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New Ulm |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 9, 1954 |
| Place of death | Ulm |