Matthias Corr

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Matthias Corr (born April 6, 1880 in Aachen ; † 1962 there ) was a German sculptor. He found his final resting place in the Aachen Ostfriedhof .

Corr was a student of Richard Müller (1874–1954) at the Dresden Art Academy .

Works (selection)

  • Grave monument of the Huberty family , Old Catholic Cemetery Dresden , field W. Wall grave on the cemetery wall in Art Deco style , around 1925.
  • Relief Christ carrying the cross above the portal of the chapel of the Old Catholic Cemetery in Dresden
  • Flute player , bronze figure, made in the 1920s. The figure was cast several times. One example stood in 1926 during the Dresden Jubilee Horticultural Exhibition in the much discussed and published exhibition garden (the so-called "Coming Garden") of the important Berlin garden architect Gustav Allinger , who designed and directed the Dresden exhibition. This copy (or another cast) was also on the grounds of the German Horticultural and Silesian Trade Exhibition (GUGALI) in Liegnitz in 1927. Current locations: Since 2010 in Eilendorf (before from 1956 to 2008 in the Elisengarten in Aachen ), Park von Gut Schwaighof near Augsburg (since the end of the 1920s; probably the copy of the Dresden exhibition).
  • War memorial in St. Vith , Belgium, inaugurated on October 21, 1934, destroyed in a bombing raid in December 1944.
  • Clay - Way of the Cross in Langerwehe near Aachen, 1938. Fired by the Jakob Kuckertz pottery at Ulhaus. Badly damaged in World War II, not preserved today.
  • Rabenbrunnen near Alt-Linzenshäuschen in Aachen, 1956. Restoration of the medieval horse trough and redesign of the raven sculpture

  • Raven Well

  • Flute player at the Eilendorf site

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Flute player Aachen-Eilendorf
  2. ↑ Tonkreuzweg by Matthias Corr, p. 18 (PDF; 404 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Corr, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH 1962
Place of death Aachen