Syrius Eberle

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Syrius Eberle
Brothers Grimm in Hanau
Equestrian monument for Kaiser Wilhelm I in Nuremberg
Two of the pylons created by Eberle on Munich's Ludwigsbrücke

Syrius Eberle (born December 9, 1844 in Pfronten , Allgäu , † April 12, 1903 in Bozen , South Tyrol ) was a German sculptor and painter.

Life

Eberle was the son of a carpenter and grew up in the "Stapferhaus" in Pfronten. He was married to the daughter of the painter Thomas Driendl , who also came from Pfronten .

Eberle first made an apprenticeship as a carpenter and studied 1866–1872 at the Royal Art Academy in Munich. From 1884 he was there himself a professor in the field of "religious sculpture". His students included Georg Pezold , Heinrich Düll , Heinrich Waderé , Johann Vierthaler , Max Heilmaier , Georg Wrba , Georg Busch , Clemens Buscher , Josef Rauch , Bruno Diamant , Josef Floßmann , August Drumm , Emil Dittler , Heinrich Jobst and Ignatius Taschner .

From the Bavarian fairy tale king Ludwig II , Eberle received a number of orders to decorate the newly built castles, also for individual figures, groups, centerpieces, almost all luxury carriages and sleighs.

Eberle created the former war memorial in Kempten (Allgäu) on the site of today's bus station; the bronze figures were melted down during World War II .

In 1889 his design won only the 3rd prize in a tender for a Brothers Grimm National Monument in Hanau . But those responsible argued about the first-placed design by the sculptor Max Wiese , which is why they asked Wilhelm Grimm's son , the art and literary historian Herman Grimm in Berlin, for his opinion. This decided on Eberle's design, and the order to build the monument was given to him. The ceremonial unveiling of the monument took place on October 18, 1896.

1890-1892 Eberle created the four pylons for Munich's Ludwigsbrücke . The monument to Franz Xaver Gabelsberger , the inventor of shorthand , in Munich's Ottostraße was also created by him in 1890 .

As a professor at the Munich Art Academy, Eberle was a member of the commission in 1893 that had to assess the proposals for the new building of the Bavarian National Museum (1894/95).

He also won the August 1897 competition for the Kaiser Wilhelm I equestrian statue in Nuremberg . But he died before it was carried out, so Wilhelm von Rümann took over the job.

Eberle was a member of the Munich Association for Christian Art and the Munich Albrecht Dürer Association , an association of Munich art academy students founded in 1885 by the sculptor Georg Busch . Eberle also gave composing evenings on Christian topics here.

Eberle finally spent his old age in Bozen (South Tyrol), where he also died in 1903.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Academy of Fine Arts Munich: Syrius Eberle, 02256, second matriculation book 1841–1884. Retrieved October 2, 2011.
  2. ^ A b c Academy of Fine Arts Munich: Teachers of the academy. Eberle, Syrius. Retrieved October 2, 2011.
  3. ↑ Today the national monument is the starting point of the German Fairy Tale Route from Hanau to Bremen . Japan's fondness for the Brothers Grimm and their collection of fairy tales led in 1989 to the casting of this monument on a 1: 1 scale for the "Kingdom of Fortune" Kofuko , an amusement park in Obihiro on the island of Hokkaidō .
  4. ↑ In addition to the required members of the state parliament, this commission consisted of artists, architects, officials from the National Museum, an art critic and representatives of the city. The first meeting of the commission took place on January 28, 1893 in the Ministry of Culture. - Michael Kamp: The museum as a place of politics. Munich museums in the 19th century. Dissertation, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich 2002, p. 145 ( edoc.ub.uni-muenchen.de PDF; 1.2 MB).
  5. ^ Announcement of the Association for Christian Art in Munich. Munich 1910, p. 117.
  6. ↑ Susanne Kähler: Fortuna for the city. To re-erect the domed figure on Ludwig Hoffmann's town house

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personal data
SURNAME Eberle, Syrius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Pfronten , Allgäu
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 1903
Place of death Bolzano , South Tyrol