Walter E. Lemcke

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Walter E. Lemcke (born August 19, 1891 in Prellwitz, today Przelewice near Człopa , † 1955 in Berlin ) was a German sculptor .

Life

An eagle head made by Lemcke on the airlift square

Walter E. Lemcke studied sculpture at the school of the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin . After the First World War he ran his own small studio in Berlin. He drew attention to himself with female nude figures in the late 1920s. He exhibited some works at art exhibitions in Berlin and Düsseldorf. His best-known work is the Olympic bell, which he modeled after a design by Ernst Sagebiel . The head of his pompous eagle statue, which was on the roof of Tempelhof Airport until 1962 , is still preserved today as a relic of the art of the Third Reich.

Services

Lemcke's artistic work is caught in the tension between three political eras: Weimar Republic , Third Reich and the post-war period in destroyed Berlin. He experienced his first successes around 1930 with modern-looking nude figures. In the mid-1930s he increasingly placed himself in the service of the National Socialists. After the war he barely appeared artistically.

Works

Figure in the Heldenhain on the Bornstedter Friedhof
  • Jumping deer (18 cm), bronze 1925 (art trade 1998)
  • Portrait of my wife (art exhibition Düsseldorf 1928), Wallraf-Richartz-Museum Cologne
  • Jug bearer , bronze, Grugapark Essen (model art exhibition Berlin 1930)
  • Architectural sculpture at the Marburg Art Institute ( Ernst-von-Hülsen-Haus ): doors, coat of arms stones, 1927
  • Works for the University Church of Marburg : rood screen, wall ornaments, baptismal cover, 1928
  • Boy with fish (fountain figure; Academy exhibition Berlin 1931)
  • Striding (torso; art exhibition Berlin 1931)
  • Works for the Berlin Olympics 1936 :
    • Olympic bell, cast steel
    • Olympic torch, stainless steel
    • Chain of office of the members of the Olympic Committee
  • Ehrenhain Bromberg, 1940 - for the victims of the Bromberg Bloody Sunday
  • Figure in the Heldenhain at the Bornstedter Friedhof Potsdam, bronze 1937
  • Plaque for the integration of the Ostmark and the Sudetenland (143 × 92 mm), bronze 1939?
  • Reichsadler, aluminum 1940, Platz der Luftbrücke at Tempelhof Airport
  • 6 eagle reliefs, 1940, Berlin (Tempelhof Airport)
  • Reichsadler, Reich Aviation Ministry Berlin (destroyed)
  • Coat of arms relief (reconstruction) for Torgau
  • Bookman , University Library Münster
  • Dancer , bronze 1953, Grugapark Essen
  • Official Olympic chain of the IOC , for the then President of the IOC of the German section Theodor Lewald

  • Imperial Eagle at Tempelhof Airport

  • Consecration of the Olympic bell

  • damaged Olympic bell

  • Imperial eagle at the former Reich Aviation Ministry

  • Eagle Square on Airlift Square

literature

  • Vollmer artist lexicon
  • Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung; 55 / II (1935), illus. P. 985, p. 1991; 57 / I (1937), ill.p. 410
  • The artwork (Baden-Baden), 9 (1955/56), no. 4, p. 62
  • Catalog exhibition German Art Düsseldorf 1928
  • Catalogs Great Berlin Art Exhibition at Bellevue Palace 1930 (No. 517), 1931 (No. 481)
  • Catalog art exhibition of the Prussian Academy of the Arts Berlin 1931

Web links

Commons : Walter E. Lemcke  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ picture of the water-bearer
  2. ↑ Picture of the Olympic torch ( Memento of the original from February 18, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.agon-shop.de
  3. ^ Image of the figure in the Heldenhain, Bornstedter Friedhof, Potsdam
  4. ↑ picture of the dancer
personal data
SURNAME Lemcke, Walter E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Prellwitz, today Przelewice near Człopa
DATE OF DEATH 1955
Place of death Berlin