Edwin Scharff

Paul Edwin Scharff ( born March 21, 1887 in Neu-Ulm, † May 18, 1955 in Hamburg ) was a German sculptor, medalist and graphic artist of the first half of the 20th century.

Life

At 15, Edwin Scharff left his home town of Neu -Ulm to Munich to study at the School of Art from 1903 to 1907 in the painting class of Ludwig von Herterich and later at the Royal Academy of Arts Painting. 1906 made ​​his first sculptures and 1908 Etching Solution first about dreams and sketches.

After a one year stay in Paris in the year 1912/13, he met Jules Pascin. He was a founding member in 1913 of the Munich Neue Secession. After Edwin Scharff moved to sculpture, making the beginning of his most productive phase was connected. In 1923 he was appointed professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin, where he received numerous public commissions for monuments, busts and medals.

After the " seizure of power" of the Nazis, he was first added to the Dusseldorf Art Academy. On the Empire Exhibition Working People, 1937 in Dusseldorf, he established for over 100,000 Reichsmark two figures for the entrance, the horse tamer. Shortly afterwards, however, he was denounced as a degenerate artist in 1937 on leave from his teaching post and occupied by the Nazis in a work ban. Three of his works were ridiculed in July 1937 during the Nazi Degenerate Art exhibition. , Eventually destroyed 46 of his works as degenerate art.

In 1946 he taught at the State Art School in Hamburg, where he died in 1955. The plates for the burial at the cemetery Hamburg Ohlsdorf completed his student Ursula Querner probably from Trani Perlato.

At the documenta 1 (1955) and in 1959 at the documenta 2 in Kassel also his works of international public were shown. In New Ulm, Edwin Scharff Museum was opened in 1999, which in its permanent exhibition gives a comprehensive overview of the work Scharff. The Edwin Scharff Prize commemorates him.

In the possession of Edwin Scharff Museum in Neu-Ulm are two bronze sculptures of Franz parents of Moufang, a bust of Wilhelm Moufang senior and a high relief Tondo by his wife Julie Stutzman from the period around 1920.

The 1917 resulting sculpture Portrait of the actress Anni Mewes has been rediscovered in Berlin, together with further in 1937 as "degenerate" seized sculptures by other artists at the Berlin Sculpture Fund, 2010, when at the town hall road opposite the Red Town Hall in advance of underground construction rescue excavations were carried out.

Work

Thematically determine Scharffs work alongside representations of horses humanistic traditions. Its design language was between stilisierender, expressive and kubisierender representation.

Horses

• Terracotta jar with Horse ( 1914)
• Monument to the Horses ( 1924)
• Horse tamer (1926-1939) in the exhibition park in Dusseldorf

Man

• Standing (1912 )
• Kore (1926 )
• Nymph (1947 )
• Colossal bust of President von Hindenburg in the Reichstag building in Berlin
• War memorial to the fallen of the First World War (1924-1926; finished 1932) in Neu-Ulm
• Mother with child - mourner
• Pastorale (1921-1939)
• Three men in a boat (1952-1953), first casting in Hamburg 's Alster lake, 2 cast Neu-Ulm, Town Hall Square