Edmund Moeller
Life
Edmund Moeller went in 1905, together with Gustav Reißmann to study art at Robert Diez to Dresden and continued his studies in Dusseldorf later on.
In addition to numerous sculptural portraits for the Dresden Hygiene Museum, he also created the Relief Bomätscher at the Neustadt Bank of the Elbe Dresden Albert Bridge. The marble reliefs to the proselytizing community and the converted church are situated in the Thomas church at the bottom Straße in Dresden- Gruna. The Art Prize of the City of Dresden, he received in 1939 for his work. It should be the last ( known ) Findings Moeller.
The best-known of his works is considered the 1929 inaugurated Peruvian Freedom Monument in Trujillo, the representative of Monumento a la Libertad today a symbol of the Peruvian War of Independence. From artist colleagues envied for his success, he fell because of a lack of orders after 1940 into financial difficulties. In debt and almost forgotten, he died on January 19, 1958 in Dresden.
More of his work is represented in the Dresden collection of sculptures in the Albertinum and at the Städtische Galerie Dresden and the garden of his studio building in Dresden. For the construction of the Freedom Monument in Trujillo, he received from the Peruvian government Peruvian state the highest price, the Order El Sol del Perú, as well as the title of professor. From the prize money, Moeller built a living room and a spacious studio house on the street Gostritzer 10 in Dresden. It is now managed by the Artists' Association Art construction, to its 120th birthday in 2005 published a book on his work, to keep alive the memory of him.