Otto Geyer

This article is about the sculptor; for the geologist, see Otto Franz Geyer

Karl Ludwig Otto Geyer (born January 8, 1843 in Charlottenburg ; † March 25, 1914 there ) was a German sculptor and medalist .

Life

Otto Geyer, son of the archdeacon Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Geyer and brother of the architect Albert Geyer , studied from 1859 to 1864 at the Royal Academy of Arts and in the studio of the sculptor Hermann Schievelbein . After Schievelbein's death in 1867, he took over his studio. Geyer continued his studies in Copenhagen at the Thorvaldsen Museum in 1869 .

From 1891, as the successor to the late sculptor Bernhard Roemer, he taught ornamental and figurative modeling at the Technical University of Charlottenburg (now the Technical University of Berlin ), from 1892 also at the Second Craft School, of which he was director from 1904 to 1913. In 1893 Geyer received the title of professor. Geyer's pupils are u. a. the sculptor Lilli Finzelberg and the porcelain artist Hugo Meisel (1887–1966).

Memorial for Geyer at the Zehlendorf forest cemetery

Otto Geyer died in Charlottenburg in 1914 at the age of 71 and was buried in the Wilmersdorf cemetery. The grave has not been preserved. A memorial stone with a sculpture, donated by his daughters, stands in his honor at the Zehlendorf forest cemetery .

Works

River navigation by Otto Geyer

• Sculptural work at the Natural History Museum in Gotha , 1866
• Marble bust of a young girl, National Gallery Berlin , 1868
• Figure frieze (stucco) in the stairwell of the Alte Nationalgalerie ( Berlin-Mitte ), 1870–1875
• Plastic jewelry on the Thorn Bridge over the Vistula , 1874
• Figure frieze (terracotta) on the main front of the Red City Hall (Berlin-Mitte), around 1877
• Figure group river navigation on the bridge at Halleschen Tor ( Berlin-Kreuzberg ), 1879
• Medallions depicting architecture and engineering at the Anhalter Bahnhof , Berlin, 1872–1880
• Reliefs and statues at Strasbourg train station , 1882
• Kaiser Wilhelm Monument in Iserlohn , 1883
• War memorial (for the fallen in 1866 and 1870/71) in Mühlhausen , 1883, demolished in 1967
• Resurrection angel in the Luisenstadt cemetery (Berlin-Kreuzberg), 1886
• Grave relief of Paul Eckelberg in the cemetery of the Twelve Apostles ( Berlin-Schöneberg ), 1897
• Bronze figure (boy balancing on a turtle), 1900
• Frieze in the atrium of the German Museum of Decorative Arts, today Martin-Gropius-Bau (Berlin-Kreuzberg)
• Capitals and pulpit in the Herz-Jesu-Kirche ( Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg )
• Two reliefs at Cologne Central Station (only plaster copies preserved)
• Medallion on the grave of the architect Hermann Friedrich Waesemanns in Cemetery II of the Sophiengemeinde Berlin (Berlin-Mitte)
• Man with bronze mirror, National Gallery Berlin

literature

• Josephine Hildebrand: The life and work of the Berlin sculptor Otto Geyer (1843–1914), shown with special attention to his historical figure friezes. Dissertation, Free University of Berlin, 1975.
• Peter Bloch, Sibylle Einholz , Jutta von Simson (eds.): Ethos and Pathos. The Berlin School of Sculpture 1786–1914. Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-7861-1599-0 .
• Moritz Wullen: "The Germans are in the stairwell". Otto Geyer's frieze in the Alte Nationalgalerie. DuMont, Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-8321-7016-2 .

Web link

Commons : Otto Geyer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Death register StA Charlottenburg I, No. 168/1914
2. ↑ Otto Geyer. Artist. German Society for Medal Art, accessed on November 10, 2015 . 
3. ↑ it was in Berlin Unter den Linden where the State Library is today; her successor is the Akademie der Künste am Pariser Platz
4. ↑ Publishing house F. Bruckmann A.-G .: The art for everyone . Verlagsanstalt F. Bruckmann A.-G., 1892, p. 91. ( limited preview in the Google book search).
5. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , pp. 508, 631.
6. ↑ together with Ludwig Brodwolf , Alexander Calandrelli and Rudolf Schweinitz