Raimund Jäger

Raimund Jäger (born February 21, 1888 in Miesbach ; † after November 1914, missing in France ) was a German sculptor .

The sculptor Raimund Jäger, who died early, was not very well known. Nevertheless, he is known in specialist circles and particularly valued in his home region. Born in Miesbach as the son of master tailor Josef Jäger, he designed the embroidery of the world-famous Miesbacher Joppe for his parents' business . From 1907 Jäger studied at the Munich Art Academy . As early as 1909 he received his first public commission, a life-size figure of the Virgin Mary, which is lost today. In the following years Raimund Jäger belonged to the circle of artists around the satirical weekly magazine Simplicissimus . Idiosyncratic works were created, such as the group of figures “Das Barlamend”, which is now in the Miesbacher Heimatmuseum .

Raimund Jäger was drafted when the First World War broke out and has been missing on the Western Front since the beginning of November 1914.

literature

• Martin Fischhaber, Isabella Krobisch and Hans Schuhbeck: Great Miesbacher Artists of the Past. Booklet accompanying the exhibition in the Waitzinger Keller cultural center . Miesbach 1998.
• Alexander Langheiter: Miesbach. A cultural guide . Maurusverlag, Miesbach 2006.