Paul Wynand

Paul Wynand (born 30 January 1879 in Elberfeld, † March 2, 1956 in Berlin) was a German sculptor and professor of the heroic and monumental style of the Nazi period.

Life and work

Paul Wynand initially studied at the School of Applied Arts in Berlin (sculpture ); after he was 1900 students, among others, Paul Rodin in Paris. From 1901 he was a lecturer at the School of Applied Arts in Elberfeld. He worked on the coat of arms on the outer wall of the Council Chamber Bochum ( destroyed during the war ). From about 1903 he delivered a number of important designs for the Jugendstilära the Westerwald stoneware production, initially mainly for SP Gerz, later for Reinhold Merkel Bach and others. This activity continued through the twenties. In 1905 he took up a teaching post at the ceramics school in Höhr / Westerwald. In 1911 he moved to Berlin to continue his sculptural works. Are obtaining from him Monuments in Wuppertal -Barmen, Berlin, Cologne and Schloss Burg / Wupper and a bust of Goethe in the Federal Central Bank Frankfurt am Main. He was 1934-1944 as a teacher of " visual art " to the United State Schools for Free and Applied Art (from 1939: " State Academy of Fine Arts " ) in Berlin worked. In 1938 he edited a bronze sculpture "Falkner" at Berlin's Olympic Stadium.