Paul Horn (sculptor)

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Paul Horn (born July 22, 1876 in Merseburg , † March 14, 1959 in Greifswald ) was a German sculptor .

Live and act

The son of a master stonemason learned from his father from 1891 to 1894, then from Carl Dopmeyer in Hanover . From 1901 he worked as a freelancer in Halle (Saale) , in 1919 he was a founding member of the Halle Artists Council and the Halle Artists Group . After the National Socialists came to power , Horn was put under so much pressure from April 1933 and attacked in the press ( Mitteldeutsche National-Zeitung , Der Kampf ) that he gave up teaching at the adult education center in Halle (Saale) and went to Greifswald around 1934 .

He often created ceramic architectural jewelry in private homes. He also tried to secure his livelihood with church paintings and stone carvings.

Paul Horn was the father of the sculptor Richard Horn .

Works (selection)

Cyclists Federal Monument in Bad Schmiedeberg
  • 1904–1905: Execution of the sculptural jewelry at the Halle district court
  • 1915: Portal sculptures fish man and fish woman at the portal of the Stadtbad in Halle
  • 1919: "Dance of Death" in the crematorium at the Gertraudenfriedhof in Halle
  • 1924: Well in Senftenberg
  • 1929: Memorial plaque for the church jubilee in the church of St. Laurentius in Teutschenthal

Horn created around ten war memorials for the fallen in World War I in the greater Halle area and in Bad Schmiedeberg, including:

Horn created other sculptural art in buildings in Halle (e.g. relief decorations on the altar and organ in the Christ Church ) and in Bitterfeld.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Forkert: Senftenberger retrospectives. Part II. Interesting facts from Senftenberg's history. Senftenberg 2007.
personal data
SURNAME Horn, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Merseburg
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1959
Place of death Greifswald