Richard Martin Werner

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Richard Martin Werner in his studio in Offenbach in 1936

Richard Martin Werner (born January 2, 1903 in Offenbach am Main , † October 2, 1949 in Oberursel ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Werner was a son of the lathe operator Adam Werner and Maria Keller. He was married to the painter and art teacher Gerda Jo Werner .

From 1920 to 1923 Werner studied at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main . From 1924 to 1929 he was a student of Richard Scheibe . In 1929 Werner received a scholarship from the Villa Massimo in Rome. He then worked as a freelance sculptor in Offenbach, Frankfurt and (since 1937) in Oberursel im Taunus. After 1933 Werner mainly created nudes and portraits (e.g. of Franz Liszt and Ricarda Huch). In his works he strived for a simple, large form in the sense of antiquity. He exhibited several times at the Great German Art Exhibition (1937–1944 in Munich) before joining the war . Werner was a member of the Darmstadt Secession from 1945 and co-founder of the Taunus Artists' Association in Bad Homburg in 1948. In Biedenkopf , he led a sculpture class at the local vocational school.

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Tree Planter (1949)

Werner's most famous work of art is the tree planter . It depicts a kneeling woman holding an oak - seedling planted. Werner created the work in 1949 in the aftermath of the currency reform of 1948 as a design for a plaster - model , which as the back of 50-penny coin of the young Federal Republic of Germany was used. For Werner, the 50-pfennig piece was the last big order. Until he died in October 1949, the artist had not held any of the coins that were minted according to his design. The client was the Bank of German Lands . It was not until 1987 that it became known that his wife Gerda Jo Werner was his model .

Other works are sculptures and busts :

  • 1928: Portrait of the sculptor Richard Scheibe - bust in bronze with brown patina . Werner called his teacher Richard Scheibe a friend.
  • Around 1929/1930: Standing sculpture in bronze with black-green patina
  • 1931: Standing female nude - sculpture in plaster, painted
  • 1934: girl's head - bust in bronze
  • 1936: Kneeling with arms outstretched - bronze sculpture
  • 1936: Die Sinnende - sculpture in porcelain
  • 1938: The runner at the start - bronze sculpture ( on display in the Waldstadion Frankfurt-Niederrad)
  • 1940: Standing girl - sculpture in bronze with brown patina
  • Undated: knee end sculpture in bronze
  • Undated: Entrance relief at the Frankfurt-Höchst tax office

The common feature of the works (both of the tree planter and the sculptures and busts) is the representation of human (mostly female) bodies.

Awards

The International Olympic Committee honored him in 1936, the year of the Summer Olympics in Berlin , for a relief of Baron de Coubertin .

literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ The works mentioned here have so far only been taken from the Richard Martin Werner website on artnet.de. There, auction results are presented with photos of Werner's works. The list is therefore not an index of works , it can rather be viewed as a selection of works.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hessian family history . Vol. 24, 1998–1999, pp. 585–586, quoted from: Werner, Richard Martin in der Hessischen Biographie
  2. ^ Magistrat der Stadt Oberursel (ed.): Catalog for the exhibition Gerda Jo Werner, Richard Martin Werner . In-house print shop of the city of Oberursel, Oberursel 1995.
  3. ↑ Werner, Richard Martin . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 35 : Libra-Wilhelmson . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1942, p. 418 .
  4. ↑ GDK Research - Image-based research platform to the Great German Art Exhibitions 1937-1944 in Munich. In: gdk-research.de. Retrieved May 7, 2018 .
  5. ^ Richard Martin Werner. In: darmstaedtersezession.de. Retrieved May 7, 2018 .
  6. ^ Christian Schröder: Money laundering: The 50-pfennig piece. In: tagesspiegel.de . Retrieved May 7, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Werner, Richard Martin. In: Art in Public Space Frankfurt. Retrieved May 7, 2018 .
  8. ↑ 50-pfennig woman died. In: taz.de . August 30, 2004, accessed May 7, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Portrait of the sculptor Richard Scheib. In: van-ham.com. Retrieved on May 7, 2018 : "Portrait of my friend Richard Scheibe from his student Werner from 1928."
  10. ^ Auction catalog, Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, 2012. In: lempertz.com. Retrieved May 7, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Werner, Richard Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Offenbach am Main
DATE OF DEATH October 2, 1949
Place of death Oberursel