Waldemar Raemisch
Waldemar Raemisch (born August 19, 1888 in Berlin , † April 16, 1955 in Rome ) was a German-American sculptor, medalist and professor of sculpture in Berlin and Providence (USA). His main works are figurative representations in iron and bronze.
life and work
Waldemar Raemisch began an apprenticeship as a metalworker at the age of 14 and completed his training in 1911 at the teaching institute of the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts . Trips to Italy, Egypt and Palestine followed. During the First World War he did military service in the air force. From 1919 to 1923 he taught silversmithing at the school . First he went public with handicrafts such as figural chandeliers, reliefs and vessels made of metal.
After the teaching establishment merged with the art college to form the United State Schools for Free and Applied Art in 1924, Waldemar Raemisch headed the silversmith's workshop there and in 1930 was appointed professor for metal sculpture in the “Applied Arts” department. He designed coins and medals, e.g. B. The Goethe Medal for Art and Science, first awarded in 1932 . In 1937 he created two Adler sculptures in front of the “Haus des Sports” at Werner March's Berlin Olympic Stadium , in an archaic, somewhat monumental style. Reliefs on the Nordstern Lebensversicherung building on Fehrbelliner Platz in Berlin and a birthday present for the then Shah of Persia also came from Prof. Raemisch's hand.
Because of his Jewish wife Gertrud Ruth geb. Galland (1893–1966) excluded from the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts and dismissed from teaching in 1937, he emigrated with his family to the USA and came as a professor at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence , RI , where he was head of the 1946–54 "Sculpture Department" was. Religious motifs in iron, bronze and silver played a major role in his increasingly figurative work. Around 1950 Prof. Raemisch designed sculptures together with Gerhard Marcks , José de Creeft and Jacques Lipchitz for the "Fairmount Park Association" in Philadelphia .
While working on an assignment, he died in Rome, where he and his wife had spent the last months of his life.
Literature and Sources
- Christine Fischer-Defoy: Art makes politics. The Nazification of the art and music colleges in Berlin . Berlin: Elefanten Press, 1988. P. 297 u.ö.
- Anon .: Prof. Raemisch, a sculptor, 67 (Obituary), in: New York Times April 16, 1955, p. 19th
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Raemisch, Waldemar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American metal sculptor and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 19, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 16, 1955 |
| Place of death | Rome |