Oskar Aurich

Oskar Aurich (born October 8, 1877 in Neukirchen, Erzgebirge , † November 1968 in Dresden ) was a German sculptor and medalist .

Life

He spent his childhood in Neukirchen in the Ore Mountains and went to elementary school there . He first studied in 1892 at the Dresden School of Applied Arts and from 1898 to 1902 at the Munich Art Academy . In 1903 and 1904 he studied at the Dresden Art Academy . From 1905 he worked as a freelance sculptor in Dresden. Later he had his own studio at Alemannenstraße 22 and lived at Schulgutstraße 17. He was bombed out by the devastating bombing raids on Dresden and lost his studio and his works.

He was represented with his works at art exhibitions in Dresden, Berlin and Munich . He mainly created plaques and medals , genre sculptures, portrait busts and war memorials in the Saxon rural areas. After the war he worked as a lecturer at the University of Fine Arts. The medalist Friedrich Wilhelm Hörnlein made a silver medal for Oskar Aurich in 1911 .

Works (selection

• 1901: Marble relief Mathilde Ehrengard Freifrau von Uckermann-Bendeleben , Dresden Sculpture Collection, inventory number ZV 3219.
• Luther portrait plaque , bronze .
• 1908: Plaque Society for Amateur Photography bronze sculpture collection Dresden inventory number ZV 2324.
• 1909: Relief mother of the artist made of tinted marble sculpture collection Dresden, inventory number ZV 2362
• 1920: Large group of children, Wehmut , Sandstein Fichtepark , Dresden
• Bronze statuette The Stupid Boy from Meissen , Dresden Sculpture Collection
• 1942: Head of a youth , marble, Great Art Exhibition Dresden
• 1947: Bust of Manfred Ranft , Kreuzschule Dresden , Kreuzschularchiv.
• 1952: Plaster figure of a farm worker , 3rd German Art Exhibition Dresden, Albertinum , March – May 1953.

literature

• Aurich, Oskar . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 2 : Antonio da Monza-Bassan . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1908, p. 257 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Ernst-Günter Knüppel: Georg Türke: 1884–1972, academic sculptor - life and work. Saxon sculpture from Dresden and Meißen. 1st edition. Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 2005, ISBN 3-86530-061-8 , p. 31.
• 1903 Official catalog of the International Art Exhibition of the Association of Visual Artists Munich (eV) "Secession" May 30th. 1903: in the Kgl. Art exhibition building on Königsplatz. Munich: Bruckmann, 1903.
• Exhibition catalog Dresden 1914 IV. Exhibition of the Dresden Artists' Association. May 1914. Emil Richter art exhibition , Prager Strasse .
• Catalog Dresden 1936 Art exhibition Dresden 1936. Sächsischer Kunstverein Brühlsche Terrasse and Städtische Kunsthalle Lennéstraße
• Catalog Great Dresden Art Exhibition 1943, painting plastic graphics from October 16 to December 31, in the Sächsischer Kunstverein Brühlsche Terrasse (listed as artist).
• Catalog: The First General German Art Exhibition in Dresden from August 25 to October 31, 1946 Stadthalle Nordplatz Dresden.
• Catalog: Exhibition on contemporary art in the GDR in Berlin - "Artists create for peace" December 1, 1951 to January 31, 1952
• Catalog of the 3rd German Art Exhibition Dresden, Albertinum , March – May 1953.

Web links

• Short biography (PDF; 137 kB), Staatliche Museen zu Berlin , p. 1 f, accessed on March 1, 2012.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archive of the Dresden University of Fine Arts
2. ^ Dresden address book. 1944 , part II, p. 20.
3. ↑ Inventory number ZV 2462 ( Memento of the original from March 19, 2014 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. of the Dresden Sculpture Collection . 
4. ↑ Relief Mathilde Ehrengard Freifrau von Uckermann-Bendeleben ( Memento of the original from March 19, 2014 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. in the Dresden sculpture collection. 
5. ↑ Photo The Stupid Boy from Meissen on Flickr.
6. ^ Agricultural worker in the Deutsche Fotothek.