Max Unger
Max Unger (born January 26, 1854 in Berlin , † May 31, 1918 in Bad Kissingen ) was a German sculptor .
Life
Max Unger learned sculpture at the Royal Art School in Berlin with Fritz Schaper and worked from 1874 to 1875 in Albert Wolff's studio . After a two-year study visit to Italy , he became a freelance artist with his own studio in Berlin-Kreuzberg .
Max Unger was buried in the Dahlem cemetery. His grave is adorned with a self-made kneeling bronze angel with a guitar.
Works
- Statue of the Prussian Field Marshal Prince Friedrich Karl Nikolaus von Prussia (1828–1885) in Frankfurt (Oder) , 1888
- Monument to the Margrave Waldemar the Great on Berlin's Mühlendamm Bridge (Fischer Bridge) 1894 - according to Lehnert, prototype of the early statues in Siegesallee ; Counterpart to the monument Albrecht the Bear by Johannes Boese on the opposite side.
- Statue of King Friedrich Wilhelm IV for the White Hall of the Royal Palace in Berlin (presumably destroyed)
- Bismarck monument in Forst in the Lausitz 1896,
- Monument to the margrave Otto I in Berlin's Siegesallee , monument group 2 , 1898
- Kaiser Wilhelm I equestrian statue on Wilhelmsplatz in Frankfurt (Oder) 1900
- Kaiser Wilhelm I statue in Ulm ; Erected in 1900 on the market square, since 1939 on Olgaplatz
- Villersbrunnen with a drinker in Leipzig (melted down in 1942, reconstructed in 2003)
- Various figures for grave monuments, e.g. B. a mourner for the old cemetery of the Nikolai and Mariengemeinde , Berlin, Prenzlauer Allee 1.
- Fridtjov statue (King Fridtjov the brave / Fridtjof den frøkne ) in Vik / Vangsnes in the Sognefjord (Norway) 1913
- Bismarck bust, purchased by the city of Ulm in 1908, integrated into a Bismarck fountain in 1915
Margrave Waldemar the Great , Mühlendamm Bridge Berlin 1894/95. Prototype of the early monuments in Siegesallee .
Statue of Otto I for the (former) Siegesallee in Berlin, 1898
Prince Friedrich Karl Nikolaus of Prussia in Frankfurt (Oder) (destroyed)
Fridtjov the Brave in Vangsnes, a gift from Wilhelm II to the Norwegians
Villersbrunnen in Leipzig
Angel with guitar on Max Unger's tombstone, Dahlem cemetery , bronze, own work
literature
- Richard George (Ed.): Hie good Brandenburg always! Historical and cultural images from the past of the Mark and from old Berlin up to the death of the Great Elector , Verlag von W. Pauli's Nachf., Berlin 1900.
- Uta Lehnert: The Kaiser and the Siegesallee. Réclame Royale , Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-496-01189-0 .
Web links
Footnotes
- ↑ Uta Lehnert: The Kaiser and ... , p. 390; according to Richard George (ed.): Hie gut Brandenburg ... , p. 132f, the monument was erected in 1895; Picture below
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SURNAME | Unger, Max |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 26, 1854 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
DATE OF DEATH | May 31, 1918 |
Place of death | Bad Kissingen |