Max Pöppel
Max Pöppel (* 1909 in Memmingen ; † December 15, 1989 there ) was a German painter and sculptor .
Life
Max Pöppel came into contact with sculpture in his father's and grandfather's business and was fascinated by the design possibilities of stone. He later expanded his knowledge to include woodworking techniques and thus laid a solid technical foundation on which his artistic work could build. This was followed by the State School for Applied Arts in Munich, and finally going to the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . Here he was a master student of Joseph Wackerle . Since 1931 he worked as a freelance sculptor, interrupted by the war years, which he marked in his vita with the short dictum “time spent senselessly”.
After returning from war and captivity, Pöppel settled in Memmingen again. He stayed here until 1972, after moving to North Baden ten years later, in 1982, he returned to Memmingen, where he lived until his death.
Shortly before his death, on October 9, 1989, he was given the Memmingen City Seal, a special honor of his hometown. Associated with this was the last major exhibition in the foyer of the city theater, which was opened by Mayor Ivo Holzinger . According to the press reports at the time, Pöppel had “shaped the cityscape like hardly anyone else”, his works were “an essential part of the Memmingen urban landscape”, and he was given the title “Senior of the Memmingen artists”.
Works in Memmingen
Max Pöppel determined the public space in Memmingen in a special way with his sculpture. In the years before 1972 in particular, numerous works were created that still shape the cityscape today:
- Fountain at St. Martin
- Fischerbrunnen on the Schrannenplatz
- Crucifixion group in the funeral hall of the cemetery
- Market talk, market women at the Kräutlesmarkt / Kalchstrasse
- Water buffalo in Grenzhofstrasse,
- Reiherbrunnen, formerly Buxheimer Strasse, now a clinic
- Wall sculpture at the employment office (destroyed during construction in 2016)
- Crocodile in Feystrasse
- Putti in the Zollergarten
- Putte in the forest cemetery
- Schoolyard fountain in the BSG and Amendingen
- Fountain in Machnigstrasse
- Flood reservoir in Eisenburg
In addition, numerous reliefs and over-portals on Memmingen buildings, secondary school, Bismarck school, Magnet-Schultz , in Münchner Strasse, on Tummelplatzweg, the Höfler relief in Herrenstrasse, in Hofgasse on the facade of the Hofgasse gallery.
Fountain near St. Martin in Memmingen
Large view of the figure of the Fischerbrunnen on Schrannenplatz in Memmingen
Angel statue of Max Pöppel at the forest cemetery in Memmingen
The herb waiberl created by Max Pöppel on the herb market on Memminger Kalchstrasse
literature
- Ursula Myka (ed.): The sculptor Pöppel . Photographs by Dörte Neudert. Adrianas Galerie und Kunstverlag, Memmingen 1985, ISBN 3-925562-50-8 .
- Manfred Myka (Ed.): Max Pöppel - 100 Years . Private print, Memmingen 2009.
swell
- ^ Works by Max Pöppel handed over to the city of Memmingen. Retrieved May 22, 2020 .
- ↑ confirmed on request on July 11, 2016 by the city's cultural office
- ↑ Max Pöppel's statue has a new location in the Memmingen forest cemetery. Retrieved May 22, 2020 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pöppel, Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Memmingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 15, 1989 |
| Place of death | Memmingen |