Vilma Lehrmann-Amschler

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Vilma Lehrmann-Amschler (born July 25, 1910 in Vršac (Werschetz), † December 23, 1989 in Wedel ) was a German sculptor.

Life

Vilma Lehrmann-Amschler was born as Wilhelmine Lehrmann. She began her artistic training at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Graz and in 1930 moved to the State University of Fine Arts in Berlin (today UdK), where she studied applied arts, architecture and silversmithing with Waldemar Raemisch . She received her first commissions in Berlin. For the newly built Yugoslav embassy there , she created a sculpture of a fountain ( gargoyles ) and a state coat of arms as a stone relief above the entrance to the office wing, which is no longer preserved. In 1944 and 1945 she was involved in the artistic design of a new building by the architect Werner March for the German School Emdrup in Copenhagen. Vilma Lehrmann also worked as a silversmith. She created memorial plaques for marriages or confirmations, but also pieces of jewelry. In 1940 she designed a two-handed sword on behalf of the Krupp company , which Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring was given as a present.

Together with her future husband, the painter Alfred Amschler from Würzburg, she moved to Rissen at the end of the war in 1945 , and then on to Wedel in 1948 . The artist couple lived there from 1955 onwards in a residential and studio house at An der Aue 1. Together with her husband, she created more than 40 works in public spaces in Hamburg between 1948 and 1976 , mainly bronze sculptures, as part of the “ Art in Architecture ” program . After the death of her husband in 1978, Lehrmann-Amschler did not take any more assignments. She spent the last years of her life in poor health in a nursing home .

Vilma Lehrmann-Amschler was buried in the Wedel cemetery.

In her will, Vilma Lehrmann-Amschler bequeathed her assets of 600,000 euros to the city of Wedel with the purpose of establishing a foundation to promote culture . This foundation has been active since 1996 and is now called the Amschler Foundation. In 1999, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the death of Vilma Lehrmann-Amschler, a retrospective was held in the Ernst Barlach Museum in Wedel. In 2005, the city of Wedel sold part of the works of art from the bequest to increase the foundation's assets. In addition to numerous figurative works, the artist couple Vilma Lehrmann and Alfred Amschler also left a written legacy to the city of Wedel. The collection of images, letters from the army and private letters can be found in the Wedel City Archives .

Works in public space

Vilma Lehrmann-Amschler's works in Hamburg's public space include:

  • Reading boy , in front of the Iserbarg elementary school, Rissen
  • Child with Dog , in front of Police Station 25, Silcherstraße in Hamburg-Bahrenfeld (1963)
  • Fox , squirrel , marten : each ceramic relief (1960) on the front wall of the terraced houses Ermlandweg 13, Ermlandweg 21 and Grellkamp 50 in Hamburg-Langenhorn
  • Playing children (1963), corner of Gerckensplatz 1 and Lentersweg in Hamburg-Hummelsbüttel
Athena Düppelstrasse, Hamburg-Altona

The following works are owned by the Hamburg housing company SAGA , or were attached to SAGA properties as art in construction:

  • Three female figures , ceramic sculptures on the house wall at Düppelstrasse 7–11 in Altona (1957)
  • Clouds and birds , wire sculpture on house gable in Sandweg in Eimsbüttel (1958). As of 2010, the plastic is no longer attached.
  • Leaning on the wall , bronze on the gable wall in the garden, Wigandweg 15 in Groß Borstel (1960)
  • Playing children , bronze in Böttcherkamp 103e, Lurup (1968)
  • Fountain (bronze), Mehlandsredder 20 in Großlohe-Nord (1966)
  • Heron in the reeds , bronze embossing in the format 27.5 × 16 cm, owned by SAGA (1968)
  • Heron in the reeds , bronze in Heerbrook 2/4 in Iserbrook (1963)
  • Reclining woman with bird , bronze, 16 × 25 cm, owned by SAGA (undated)
  • Reading woman , bronze, owned by SAGA (undated)

The sculptures in Lübeck include the following works by Lehrmann-Amschler:

  • Playing children , bronze, sunbathing lawn at the Kücknitz swimming pool, Flenderstr 87a, Lübeck-Kücknitz (1965)
  • Playing children , bronze in the inner courtyard of the Otto Passarge School (today the Baltic Comprehensive School), Briggstraße 11, Lübeck-Buntekuh (1968)
  • Playing children , bronze in the playground of the Mühlenweg elementary school, Moislinger Mühlenweg 56–58, Lübeck-Moisling (1968)

literature

  • Sabine Weiss: Vilma Lehrmann-Amschler (1910-89). Art in the service of the times . Catalog for the exhibition on the 10th anniversary of the artist's death in the Ernst-Barlach-Museum Wedel 1999/2000. Foundation for the Promotion of Art and Culture in the City of Wedel, Wedel 1999.

Web links

Commons : Vilma Lehrmann-Amschler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d December 1989 - sculptor Vilma Lehrmann-Amschler dies  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Historical calendar sheet, City of Wedel, 1989.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.wedel.de  
  2. Entry in the Berlin State Monument List There Vilma Lehrmann is wrongly referred to as a Yugoslav artist. (Accessed September 26, 2008)
  3. ^ Homepage Wedel Cemetery
  4. Illustration and location of the tombstone at garten-der-frauen.de
  5. Jörg Frenzel: Hardly any interest - less culture In: Hamburger Abendblatt, May 16, 2006. (Accessed September 26, 2008)
  6. Short message drawn fr : Wedel sells cultural treasures In: Hamburger Abendblatt dated December 6, 2005. (Accessed September 26, 2008)
  7. Objects No. 08, 09, 16 in the Langenhorn Archive
  8. SAGA (Ed.): Art in the Quartier ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.saga-gwg.de archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 5.8 MB) . Hamburg 2008.
  9. Wilma Lehrmann-Amschler: Three female figures . Photos of the sculptures in the Altona Nord blog , entry from November 18, 2010.
  10. Disappeared works of art - Vilma Lehrmann Amschler's "Clouds and Birds" . Scan of an image of the sculpture in the Altona Nord blog , entry from November 18, 2010.