Paul Berger (sculptor)
Paul Berger (born April 8, 1889 in Zwickau , † March 30, 1949 in Dresden ) was a German sculptor .
Life
Paul Berger was born in Zwickau as the son of a bricklayer and later a building contractor. After elementary school , an apprenticeship as a bricklayer followed in Zwickau, and in 1905 studies at the Dresden School of Applied Arts . From 1906 to 1912 he studied at the Dresden Art Academy , where he was a master student of Georg Wrba and Georg Türke . In 1912 he received the Christ figure for a Rome Prize , followed by two years of study in Rome . Berger returned to Dresden in 1914 , but went to war. In 1918 he returned from the First World War with serious wounds. He could not cure an acute handicap; it weighed heavily on him in his life-affirming artistic work. From 1919 he worked as a freelancer in Dresden, followed in 1920 by a three-month spa trip, sponsored by the Artists' Aid Association, to Acireale at the foot of Mount Etna in Italy . From 1922 to 1945 he was a professor at the Dresden Art Academy. In 1945 Berger lost his studio and many of his works when his city was bombed . In 1949 he was commissioned by the Free German Trade Union Confederation (FDGB) to create a miner's figure in the image of Adolf Hennecke . They met personally in Zwickau, but his last work remained unfinished. Paul Berger died on March 30, 1949 as a result of his war-related illness and was buried in the Tolkewitz urn grove in Dresden. Berger's Bauhaus-style house and studio on the banks of the Elbe in Kleinzschachwitz were assigned to the sculptor Johannes Friedrich Rogge in 1951 .
Honors
- 1912 Rome price for his figure of Christ
- 1928 bronze medal for the figure ice skater at the Olympic Games in Amsterdam
Works (selection
- 1912 Figure of Christ (Rome Prize), Dresden Academy property.
- 1913 bronze bust of the Dresden painter Oehme , Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
- 1922 Regimental War Memorial 1914–18 of the Infantry Regiment (9th Saxon) No. 133 in Zwickau
- 1926 bronze sculpture ice skater , Albertinum Dresden
- 1927 Memorial for the fallen of the First World War in Radeberg at the parish hall
- 1928 Bronze figure of a girl (Diana) with a hind , Grassi Museum Leipzig
- 1928 bronze figure The Surprised , Lingner Park, German Hygiene Museum Dresden
- 1932 bronze figure The Drinking , Dresden
- 1932 Figure made of artificial stone Mother Earth , German Hygiene Museum Dresden
- 1934 Coal Miner Porcelain Model , owned by the Meissen Porcelain Manufactory
- 1935 bronze figure Hammermeister , People's Republic of China
- 1935 Swan fountain made of bronze in Zwickau
- 1936 bronze figure Bergmann , private collection
- 1936 Sandstone sculpture Fischerei , Elbwiesen Dresden ( Narrenhäusel ), destroyed in 1945
- 1938 sandstone figure for the fountain in Bad Elster
- 1939 bronze figure standing miner, transformer factory Dresden
- 1940 Marble bust by JG Fichte , Walhalla Nuremberg
- 1942 sandstone figures Orpheus and Eurydice , Dresden State Opera
- 1944 Figure standing miner , destroyed in the bombing of Dresden in 1945
- 1947 Resurrection bronze sculpture , urn grove Dresden
- 1949 Figure of Adolf Hennecke , unfinished
literature
- Marianne Berger: The sculptor Paul Berger , Verl. Der Kunst, Dresden 1953.
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Berger, Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 8, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zwickau |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 30, 1949 |
| Place of death | Dresden |