Paul Aichele

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Paul Aichele (* 1859 in Markdorf ; † February 17, 1920 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Paul Aichele attended the Stuttgart School of Applied Arts between 1875 and 1877 , and then until 1880 the teaching institution of the Berlin Museum of Applied Arts . Aichele stayed in Berlin . Little is known about his life.

plant

The sculptural work consists mainly of small bronze sculptures . Aichele's main work is the 4.20 meter high flood fountain, which stood on the former Hamburger Platz in the Berlin district of Friedenau until 1931 and has been located on Maybachplatz (since 1961: Perelsplatz ) in the same district since 1932 : a naked man who holding his already drowned wife in her arms, looks gloomily at the last vacant seat occupied by a naked mother to protect her child from the floods.

Selection of works

  • 1891: nymph
  • 1892: Bound slave
  • 1895: Flood well in Berlin-Friedenau (see: Perelsplatz )
  • around 1895: La Baigneuse
  • 1898: Flamenco dancer
  • 1899: Childish teasing
  • 1900: harpist
  • 1900: truth
  • 1900: reaper
  • 1900: Lady Anna Galeria
  • 1900: Lady Faustina
  • 1902: victim
  • 1904: Ashamed
  • 1904: sirens
  • 1904: In devotion
  • 1904: hunted prey
  • 1906: mother and child
  • 1906: Orphaned
  • 1909: Girl with a snail
  • 1910: Paradise lost
  • 1910: seller

literature

  • Ethos & Pathos - Die Berliner Bildhauerschule 1786–1914 , catalog and volume accompanying the exhibition, Berlin 1990

Web links

Commons : Paul Aichele  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. registry office Wilmersdorf, Death No 261/1920.. State Archives Berlin.