Max Esser

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Max Esser (born May 16, 1885 in Barth , † December 23, 1945 in Berlin ) was a German sculptor and medalist . He was best known as an animal sculptor and designer of porcelain figures.

Life

From 1900 to 1903 Max Esser attended the teaching institute of the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin and the Berlin Art Academy , where he studied with the animal sculptor August Gaul , whose son-in-law he later became. From 1906 Esser exhibited regularly at the great Berlin art exhibitions . From 1908 he worked in the Schwarzburg workshops for porcelain art in Unterweißbach . From 1920 he lived in Meißen , where he was employed by the Meißner Porzellanmanufaktur from 1920 to 1931 , and from 1924 as head of a master's atelier. He later made porcelain models for Hutschenreuther, the Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin and Rosenthal .

On the world exhibition Paris in 1937 his 1934 resulting sculpture was otter with a Grand Prix award.

Max Esser died in Berlin in 1945 at the age of 60. He was buried in the Zehlendorf cemetery . The grave is preserved.

plant

Fox of the Fuchsbrunnen in the Berlin Cecilien Gardens
Otter ( Meißner porcelain ), on a 15 pfennig postage stamp of the GDR Post 1960
Otter , 1925
  • Motorcyclists

  • front

  • side view

  • side view with base

  • 1939: King Pheasant in the Berlin Zoological Garden, Pheasantry
  • undated: Bittern group , in the Berlin Zoological Garden, in the pond in the predator house
  • 1949 (posthumously): Pegasus and billy goat for Rosenthal AG

His contributions to the interior design of the Expressionist Kreuzkirche in Berlin-Schmargendorf - including the altar and a five-meter high cross made of Meissen porcelain - were lost in a night of bombing during World War II.

In addition, some of his medals have come down to us.

literature

  • Esser, Max . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 11 : Erman-Fiorenzo . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1915, p. 46 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Esser, Max. In: Peter Bloch, Sibylle Einholz, Jutta von Simson (eds.): Ethos and Pathos. The Berlin School of Sculpture 1786–1914. Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin 1990, p. 96 f.
  • D. Zühlsdorff: Ceramic brand lexicon. P. 407.
  • Karl H. Bröhan (Ed.): Porzellankunst II. Berlin 1969, p. 109.
  • Heike Drummer: The "Fountain of German Crafts" [by Max Esser] - A contribution to the self-image of the city of Frankfurt am Main under National Socialism , in: Kritische reports 2 (1995), pp. 58–65.

Web links

Commons : Max Esser  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 672.
  2. ^ Senate Department for Urban Development: Public fountains in Tempelhof-Schöneberg - Fuchsbrunnen
  3. ↑ Sculpture in Berlin: Max Esser - Adler ( Memento of the original of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bildhauerei-in-berlin.de
  4. ↑ Rosenthal Designer Portraits: Esser, Max ( Memento of the original from June 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / dekordruckerei.rosenthal.de
personal data
SURNAME Esser, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor, medalist and porcelain maker
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Barth
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1945
Place of death Berlin