Walther Schmarje

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Walther Schmarje in his studio
(Photo: Heinrich Zille , ca.1900)

Walther Schmarje (born August 16, 1872 in Flensburg , † November 6, 1921 in Berlin ; full name: Carl Ernst Theodor Walther Schmarje ; often: Walter Schmarje ) was a German sculptor and medalist .

Life

Berlin memorial plaque on Milinowskistraße 12 in Berlin-Zehlendorf

Schmarje was the son of Julius Schmarje and, after attending secondary school, began an apprenticeship with the sculptor Börner in Hamburg. After a three-year apprenticeship in which he had learned the stonemasonry and plaster work, he went to Berlin in 1891 to the art academy , where he was first a student of Nikolaus Geiger , then a master student of Reinhold Begas . Schmarje was a cousin of the painter Karl Storch the Elder. Ä. and friends with the sculptor Anna Magnussen-Petersen . During this time he received several honorable comments from the Academy on submitted work and in 1901 the Rome Prize, a scholarship that enabled him to study in Rome for six months . After his return from Rome he rented his own studio and worked as a freelance artist.

On August 7, 1900 in Mediasch ( Transylvania ) he married Hermine Mathilde Ipsen , who came from there and whom he had met in Berlin. With her he had a daughter and a son who died prematurely.

In 1904 he became a teacher, in 1908 a professor and head of the sculpture class at the school at the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts . In 1905 he turned down a call as head of the main class for sculpture at the Königsberg Art Academy . Artistically he gradually gained acceptance and soon earned so much with his art that he was able to buy a piece of land in Berlin-Zehlendorf on which he had a villa built. In 1912 he and his family moved into this house built by the architects Paul Mebes and Paul Emmerich ( Mebes und Emmerich office ).

During the First World War he served as a reserve officer in a pioneer regiment and was deployed in Belgium, France, Macedonia and Serbia . In Serbia he fell ill with paratyphus in October 1917 . After the war, from which he returned with bad health, he spent another two years in great pain and died in 1921 as a result of a hemorrhage .

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Schmarje created numerous works in all areas of sculpture: busts, reliefs, tombs, fountains, monuments, but also coins. Here is a selection:

Julius Schmarje tomb (1903), Ohlsdorf cemetery, Hamburg
  • 1901 busts of the parents
  • 1903 his father's stele
  • 1904 bust of the father-in-law
  • 1904 Roman girls
  • 1904 Piastrella player
  • 1905 farewell (relief)
  • 1909/1912 post figures for the Putlitz Bridge, Berlin-Moabit
  • 1910 animal sculptures for the Gotzkowsky Bridge , Berlin-Moabit
  • 1911 Memorial for Eyke von Repkow in Halberstadt
  • 1913/1914 grave of Siegfried Wedells in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg
  • 1914 various sculptural jewelry in the Nordsternhaus in Berlin (architects: Mebes and Emmerich)
  • 1914 The drummer
  • 1914 “The storm breaks loose”, a memorial to the Wars of Liberation in Zeitz
  • 1919 Germany collapsed
  • 1920 Germany rising again
  • 1920 bust of a young lady

Many of these works - including the collapsing and rebuilding Germany - have been lost.

literature

  • Hermann Schmitz: In memory of Walter Schmarjes . In: Decorative art, illustrated magazine for applied arts, vol. 30 = vol. 25, 1921/22, 208–216 ( digitized version ).
  • Julius and Auguste Schmarje (née Wickel): Chronicle of the Schmarje family and other documents from Fuhlsbüttel, edited by Klaus Timm. Private print from the series Stories from Klein Borstel, Vol. 21, 2006.

Web links

Commons : Walther Schmarje  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. artist. Prof. Walter Schmarje. German Society for Medal Art, accessed on July 10, 2014 .
  2. Kieler Zeitung November 25, 1905.
  3. Barbara Leisner, Heiko KL Schulze, Ellen Thormann: The Hamburg main cemetery Ohlsdorf. History and tombs , Verlag Hans Christians, Hamburg 1990, page 62, cat. 364
  4. Fig. In: Vom Fels zum Meer, Vol. 34, 1915, No. 44, p. 929.