Wilhelm Rex

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Wilhelm Rex (born July 10, 1870 in Braunsberg near Königsberg , † July 21, 1944 in Passau ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Wilhelm Rex, baptized as Friedrich Wilhelm Rex, came from an East Prussian family of teachers, organists and painters. Wilhelm Rex learned wood carving in Berlin for four years. He attended the educational institute of the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin, studied anatomy for six semesters under Maximilian Schäfer and architecture and applied arts with Albin Müller from the Darmstadt artists' colony ; he worked as a freelancer for Otto Lessing , Franz Metzner and Gotthold Riegelmann , there as a studio manager. He worked as a modeller and stone sculptor for building sculptures at various locations in Germany: Dresden, Cologne, Aachen, Düsseldorf, Magdeburg, Wittenberg, and longer settled in Berlin and Hamburg. He has received several awards and numerous commissions from public institutions. He made a name for himself in particular with his portrait busts in stone and bronze and made plaques and medals. His studios in Berlin and Hamburg were destroyed in the war, and many of his public works have also been destroyed or lost. Rex was a member of the Hamburg art community .

His son from his second marriage is the painter and author Hartlib Rex (1936–2009), married in 1978 to Sonia Rex-Junod.

plant

Robert Garbe grave (1927), Ohlsdorf cemetery

  • Pillar figures of the Rödingsmarkt subway , Hamburg (1911)

  • Gänsemädelbrunnen, Hamburg (1912)

  • Bear group , Donners Park , Hamburg-Ottensen (Altona)

  • Käthe Kollwitz , portrait bust

  • Alfred Wegener , portrait bust

  • Paul-Friedrich-Brunnen, Luthereiche Wittenberg, 1924

  • Family grave Rex (/ Arnold) , 1928, Ohlsdorf cemetery

  • Dancing four-country couple, Hamburg-Bergedorf

Whereabouts

  • 1871–1889 Berlin
  • 1889–1891 Hanover, Detmold, Kassel
  • 1891-1893 Berlin
  • 1893–1903 Dresden, Cologne, Aachen, Düsseldorf
  • 1903–1904 Berlin
  • 1904–1907 Magdeburg
  • 1907–1911 Berlin
  • 1911–1924 Hamburg, interrupted by military service 1914–1918
  • 1924–1925 Wittenberg
  • 1925–1943 Hamburg (1925–1936 Hamburg; 1936–1943 Altona)
  • 1943–1944 Bischofsmais in the rain, Bavarian Forest

Exhibitions

From 1920 Wilhelm Rex was represented in exhibitions of the Hamburg artist community, together with Ludwig Kunstmann , Friedrich Wield , Albrecht , Wöbke, Ulmer, Irwahn , Richard Bauroth , Richard Kuöhl , Arthur Bock , Twesten, Henle , Ely, Kuksch, Barlach .

Publications in newspapers: Honors / Mention on the occasion of the inauguration of monuments that he had created. Honors for the 70th birthday:

  • in the Hamburger Neusten Zeitung: Article "Selfless work in the service of art", July 9, 1940
  • and article "Art and Knowledge" in another newspaper
  • In the 1929 yearbooks there are articles about the sculptor W. Rex written by Paul Hofmann (note from Prof. Dr. Wolf Stubbe to the widow Frieda Rex).
  • Note in the document collection of the Altona Museum, zoological department on the sculpture by W. Rex, which was exhibited there for a long time, called the large model "Horse and Man".

literature

  • Maike Bruhns : Rex, Wilhelm. In: The new rump. Lexicon of visual artists from Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area . Ed .: Rump family. Revised new edition of Ernst Rump's lexicon ; supplemented and revised by Maike Bruhns, Wachholtz, Neumünster 2013, ISBN 978-3-529-02792-5 , p. 369.

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Rex  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ " Permanent Grave of Honor "
  2. ↑ The poet's corner at Förderkreis Ohlsdorfer Friedhof
  3. ↑ see file: 1WiRexGänseMädBrunStadtpHamburg 2.jpeg , uploaded by Sonia Rex
  4. ↑ also: "Boy with two ducks" ( according to the leaflet: No. 17 )
personal data
SURNAME Rex, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rex, Friedrich Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunsberg
DATE OF DEATH July 21, 1944
Place of death Passau