Max Unger

This article is about the sculptor Max Unger . For the musicologist of the same name, see Max Ernst Unger , for the football player of the same name, see Max Unger (football player) .

Eva with a snake (postcard around 1905)

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

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  Margrave Waldemar the Great , Mühlendamm Bridge Berlin 1894/95. Prototype of the early monuments in Siegesallee .

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  Statue of Otto I for the (former) Siegesallee in Berlin, 1898

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  Prince Friedrich Karl Nikolaus of Prussia in Frankfurt (Oder) (destroyed)

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  Fridtjov the Brave in Vangsnes, a gift from Wilhelm II to the Norwegians

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  Villersbrunnen in Leipzig

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  Kaiser Wilhelm Monument in Ulm

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  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

Commons : Max Unger  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• The Villersbrunnen in Leipzig
• Biography, pdf (48 kB)

Footnotes

1. ↑ 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