Richard Langer

Richard Langer (born November 28, 1879 in Nordhausen am Harz , † October 11, 1950 in Kreßbach near Tübingen ) was a German sculptor and university professor .

Langer studied at the Berlin Art Academy with Louis Tuaillon . In 1912 he received the “Grand State Prize” and with this scholarship financed a longer stay in Rome at the Villa Strohl-Fern . He then lived and worked in Düsseldorf , where he taught from 1919 to 1932 as a professor for building and decorative sculpture at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . His students there include Fritz Schwarzbeck and Adolf Wamper . Langer was a member of the Berlin Secession .

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Seated youth in the Malkastenpark

Langer worked in stone, bronze, wood, iron, stucco , terracotta and porcelain.

1925: Seated youth made of shell limestone in the Malkastenpark in Düsseldorf
1926: Plastic architectural decorations on the house of the publisher Alexander Koch in Darmstadt (architect: Fritz August Breuhaus )
1928: Joseph Görres memorial in the Rheinanlagen in Koblenz
1929: Ulanendenkmal on Joseph-Beuys-Ufer in Düsseldorf
1929: Flood snake , steel sculpture, on the ramp of the bank protection wall that leads down to Robert-Lehr-Ufer, Düsseldorf
1931: Bronze sculptures at Bochum town hall (melted down for armament purposes during World War II) (architect: Karl Roth )

Langer, Richard . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 22 : Krügner – Leitch . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1928, p. 338 .
Eduard Trier , Willy Weyres (ed.): Plastic (= 19th century art in the Rhineland. Volume 4). Schwann, Düsseldorf 1979, p. 506.

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