Reinhold Langner

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Erich Gottlob Reinhold Langner (born November 21, 1905 in Weinböhla ; † January 11, 1957 in Ockerwitz ) was a German wood sculptor , architectural sculptor , draftsman and painter .

Life

Güntzstraße 28, relief by Reinhold Langner with the Frauenkirche .
Güntzstraße 28, relief by Reinhold Langner with the crown gate .
Plastic jewelry by Reinhold Langner on the Fritz-Löffler-Straße student residence in Dresden

After completing an apprenticeship as a bricklayer and wood carver, Langner began studying wood carving at the Dresden Academy of Applied Arts in 1925 . From 1933 to 1942 he worked as a freelance sculptor. During this time Langner created the miner carvings on the Marienberg town hall door (1938/39). In 1943 he was employed as a teacher at the State Art Academy in Dresden. After the end of the Second World War , Langner was acting head of the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden until 1947 , where he also taught as a professor of sculpture from 1946 to 1948.

From 1948 to 1949 Langner was Professor of Applied Sculpture at the Dresden University of Applied Arts , which he also headed as Rector at that time . In 1949 he became a lecturer for building sculpture at the TH Dresden , and a year later at the same time a lecturer at the University of Leipzig . From 1950 Langner played a key role in the reconstruction of the Museum for Saxon Folk Art in Dresden, of which he became director in 1954. As early as 1952 he had accepted a position as professor for building sculpture at the TH Dresden and worked in this position until his death in 1957. He was buried in the Outer Briesnitz cemetery.

Works

Radebeul, transformer station Augustusweg / Nizzastraße , figures (winemaker and gardener) by Langner

Sculptures

Publications

  • Berchtesgaden folk art: tradition and contemporary creativity in the picture . As co-author of Manfred Bachmann , in collaboration with Georg Zimmermann. Edited by the State Museum for Folk Art , Dresden. VEB Hofmeister, Leipzig 1957
  • New carvings from the Ore Mountains. A report on the methodical work for the renewal of material folk culture in the Saxon Ore Mountains , 1957

literature

  • Götz Altmann (arrangement), Reinhold Langner (ill.): Memories of Professor Reinhold Langner: wood sculptor, building sculptor, painter and draftsman . Ed .: Saxon State Office for Folk Culture Schneeberg. Schneeberg 2003.
  • Frank Andert (Red.): Radebeul City Lexicon . Historical manual for the Loessnitz . Published by the Radebeul City Archives. 2nd, slightly changed edition. City archive, Radebeul 2006, ISBN 3-938460-05-9 .
  • Dietrich Lohse: Reinhold Langner - "for the second" (part 1) . In: Radebeuler monthly books (ed.): Preview & Review . No. 1 . Radebeul 2018, p. 19-21 ( online ).
  • Dorit Petschel : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 3: The professors of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin , Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02503-8 , p. 535.
  • Short biography for:  Langner, Reinhold . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

Commons : Reinhold Langner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Technical University of Dresden (ed.): Graves of professors of the alma mater dresdensis in cemeteries in Dresden and the surrounding area. 2nd Edition. Lausitzer Druck- und Verlagshaus, 2003, p. 11.
personal data
SURNAME Langner, Reinhold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Langner, Erich Gottlob Reinhold (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German wood sculptor, building sculptor, draftsman and painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Weinböhla
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 1957
Place of death Ocher joke