Paul Peterich
Paul Friedrich Gustav Peterich (born February 1, 1864 in Schwartau , † September 22, 1937 in Rotterdam ) was a German sculptor .
Life
origin
His father, Jasper Hinrich Petersen (1833–1920), came from Bramstedt in Holstein . Initially, Petersen worked for the master wood turner Joachim Dröger from Lübeck as a journeyman in Lübecker Straße 31 in Schwartau. In that stately building, which was demolished in 1973, the woodturning trade has been practiced since 1819.
When Dröger died, Petersen married his widow Magdalena Margarete (1829-1905), born Wentzel, in 1861 , who had three sons. Paul was the middle one.
The journeyman became a respected master craftsman and, as a citizen, a deserving councilor .
After attending the community school, Paul, like his younger brother Ernst, who would later continue his father's business, learned the woodworking trade. This included the art turnery, the manufacture of tobacco pipes and hand sticks .
career
By attending the Lübeck trade school, he came into contact with their art treasures and his desire arose to create something similar himself.
When the art-savvy Grand Duke Nikolaus Friedrich Peter von Oldenburg , Schwartau, at that time belonged to the Oldenburg part of the Lübeck principality , saw Peterich's journeyman's piece in 1884 in the form of a richly decorated flower table, which is now owned by the Bad Schwartau Museum , he recognized his talent and granted his country child scholarship to attend the school of Applied Arts in Hamburg and in the connection of the Academy of Arts in Berlin . There he studied in Friedrich Schaper's master class . During his studies he copied ancient and designed modern decorations. The studio of the deceased sculptor Joseph Kaffsack was already available to him at that time . Here he already carried out his first work.
During his studies in 1887, at the age of 23, Peterich applied for the nationwide tender for a monument for the composer Carl Maria von Weber in Eutin and won. The its inauguration at which he was present, on 1 June 1890, his artistic breakthrough. The figure of the muse Polyhymnia was originally located at the foot of the column . Like many sculptures by Peterich, it was melted down during World War II .
As a result, Peterich was commissioned to create a memorial in honor of Friedrich von Reventlou and Wilhelm Beseler , governor of the Schleswig-Holstein years of elevation . Their group consisted of an obelisk with the Prussian eagle, the busts of and a sculpture of a soldier. It received high-quality reviews when it was inaugurated in 1891. This was also melted down. Only the obelisk of the Reventlou Beseler monument erected in Schleswig in 1891 has been preserved.
In 1894 he was commissioned to create a memorial dedicated to the creators of the Schleswig-Holstein song , Matthäus Friedrich Chemnitz and Carl Gottlieb Bellmann . The Chemnitz-Bellmann Memorial , inaugurated in Schleswig in 1896 , received national praise .
At the turn of the century , Peterich was known nationwide. Since his successes had made him financially independent, he began to devote himself primarily to those projects that he personally considered attractive and went on various educational trips through Europe . Around 1901 he moved from Berlin to Munich . In 1903 in the Schwabing artists' colony he created the large sculpture Medea made of Belgian granite, which is now in the Lower Saxony State Museum for Art and Cultural History in Oldenburg . At that time he participated in art exhibitions in Munich and the Berlin Secession . With these, Italy was often his target. There he discovered the ancient idea of art and made the human body the central theme of his work. In Rome at that time he created the sculpture of Roman boys, which is now part of the collection of the Galleria Internationale d'Arte Moderna in Venice .
After traveling through Europe and Peterich's marriage in 1899, he was appointed by the Grand Duke of Oldenburg in 1905 to Rastede near Oldenburg, where he was awarded the title of Professor . One of his works there is the sculpture of the fountain in the game of waves . In 1912, the year in which his hometown received town charter, he gave it the sculpture showing Triton and Nereid and in the following year, the year since his hometown had the addition of bath in his name, his present was inaugurated on his father's 80th birthday her landmark .
In 1907 he moved to the vicinity of Florence , where he created marble sculptures in particular . His large sculpture Resting Boy , made there at that time , which is still kept in the National Gallery of the State Museums in Berlin , is considered one of Peterich's major works.
After the First World War began in 1914, Peterich moved to the Hellerau artists' colony near Dresden . Here he was particularly active as a medalist . Among other things, Peterich showed his work at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition of 1920. Around 1918 he created the fountain angel in the garden of the Karl May Museum in Radebeul .
In 1922 Peterich went to Capri and in 1927 to Florence. In 1934 he moved to The Hague ( Netherlands ), where he died in Rotterdam in 1937.
The whereabouts of most of his works is unknown today. Some of them are in museums or are public monuments. Some of his metal sculptures were melted down as non-ferrous metal during the Second World War .
- Works
Original monument to Carl Maria von Weber in the Ehrenhain in Eutin
Bellmann-Chemnitz-Monument at the Schützenkoppel in Schleswig
Reventlow and Beseler memorials
family
On March 23, 1899, Peterich married the pianist Elsbeth (1829–1935) and had three sons and two daughters.
Until 1922 Peterich divorced and married again.
Eckart Peterich (1900–1968), his eldest son, was a writer and journalist. He lived in Italy and Greece for a long time. In his works he showed himself to be committed to ancient art and culture.
His daughter, Gerda Peterich (1906–1974), would later work as a lecturer at Syracuse University .
- Works and replicas in the present
Bust of Carl Maria von Weber
Bellmann Chemnitz Monument
Fountain with fisher boy on Theaterwall in Oldenburg (Oldenburg)
Reconstructed fountain "In the game of the waves" in Bad Schwartau
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literature
- Peterich, Paul . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 26 : Olivier – Pieris . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1932, p. 478 .
- Paul Peterich . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 574 .
- Georg Harders: sculptor Prof. Paul Peterich, Bad Schwartau (1864–1937). In: Jahrbuch für Heimatkunde. Eutin 1981, pp. 147-155.
- Peterich, Paul. In: Hans F. Rothert (Red.): Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck. Volume 8. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1987, ISBN 3-529-02648-4 , p. 284 ff.
- Non-profit citizens' association Bad Schwartau from 1950 eV (ed.), Georg Harders: The sculptor Professor Paul Peterich. Life and work. Bad Schwartau 1988.
- Georg Harders: " In the game of waves ". Nixenbrunnen in Bad Schwartau rebuilt. In: Jahrbuch für Heimatkunde , Eutin 1998, pp. 105–108.
- Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer: Longing for Arcadia. Schleswig-Holstein artists in Italy. Boyens, Heide 2009, ISBN 978-3-8042-1284-8 , pp. 346-349.
Web links
- Entry in the Karl May Wiki
- Rensefelder baptismal register ; 1841–1871 - Entry from February 1864 (documentation in the Museum of the City of Bad Schwartau )
Individual evidence
- ↑ In addition to Peterich's journeyman's piece, the Bad Schwartauer Museum also houses the sculpture “Standing Youth” and some of his first works such as the sculpture “Mother”, the model of the relief “The Raising of the Young Man from Naïn ”, the sculptures “Madonna” and “Nach the bath ".
- ↑ After the loss of the First World War, namesake such as Friedrich, Wilhelm or Emilie changed their names to Fritz, Willy or Emmy.
- ↑ Paul Peterich appears in the directories of the educational establishment of the Kunstgewerbe-Museum in Berlin , a predecessor institution of today's University of the Arts (UdK), as a student for the years 1884/85 and 1885/86.
- ↑ Fountain with fisherman's boy. ( Memento from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Die Kunst - Monthly Bulletin for Free and Applied Arts . F. Bruckmann, Munich 1899, p. 506 and 524 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- ↑ In 1943 the sculpture Im Spiel der Wellen was melted down . After a reconstruction was made, it was poured in 1997 and set up on the market square.
- ↑ artist. Prof. Paul Peterich. German Society for Medal Art, accessed on July 23, 2019 .
- ^ Johannes Hösle: Peterich, Eckart. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 236 f. ( Digitized version ).
- ↑ Entry on the fountain angel in the Karl May Wiki
- ↑ Elsbeth was the daughter of the factory owner and secret councilor Hermann Kühn and his wife Auguste, née Wollrabe, from Dessau . To new shores-Berlin, Rome and Munich
- ^ Engl .: Syracuse University Libraries
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Peterich, Paul |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Peterich, Paul Friedrich Gustav (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 1, 1864 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bad Schwartau |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 22, 1937 |
| Place of death | Rotterdam |