Philipp Erlanger

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Philipp Jakob Erlanger (born March 31, 1870 in Frankfurt am Main , † April 20, 1934 in Braunschweig ) was a German painter and sculptor.

life and work

Memorial plaque made of Elm limestone for the Braunschweig Jews who fell in World War I in the main cemetery there

The son of a Jewish wine merchant was supposed to take up a commercial profession. The artistically gifted Erlanger, however, attended the Städelsche Kunstinstitut in his hometown from 1887 to 1890 . He continued his art studies at the Munich Academy , where he was a student of the well-known animal painter Heinrich von Zügel from 1894 to 1898 . This had a decisive influence on Erlanger's painting style. Study trips to Switzerland, Italy and France followed. From 1899 to 1914 he lived and worked in Breslau. Erlanger had contact with Braunschweig through his sister living there, who was married to the physician Siegfried Loewenthal . When the First World War broke out , he and his family moved to the suburb of Gliesmarode . As in Breslau, Erlanger gained a good reputation as a painter and sculptor in his new home. The exhibitions of the Künstlerbund Niedersachsen showed his paintings and sculptures in the 1920s. The Braunschweig City Museum devoted exhibitions to his works in 1927 and 1931.

Erlanger had lived in the city of Braunschweig since 1927, most recently at Petristraße 25. He died in 1934 and was buried in the Jewish cemetery . His wife Lucie (1886–1964) emigrated to the USA in 1937 and thus followed their son Ralph Erlanger, who had emigrated there in 1935.

Among other things, a memorial plaque for the Braunschweig Jews who died in the First World War has been preserved from Erlanger's works in the main cemetery there.

literature

  • Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon. 19th and 20th centuries , Hannover 1996, p. 166.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bert Bilzer and Richard Moderhack (eds.): BRUNSVICENSIA JUDAICA. Memorial book for the Jewish fellow citizens of the city of Braunschweig 1933–1945 , in: Braunschweiger Werkstück , Volume 35, Braunschweig 1966, p. 163
  2. ↑ Reinhard Bein : Ewiges Haus - Jewish cemeteries in the city and country of Braunschweig , Braunschweig 2004, p. 80
personal data
SURNAME Erlanger, Philipp
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Erlanger, Philipp Jakob (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1934
Place of death Braunschweig