Felix Pfeifer
Felix Georg Pfeifer ( born November 9, 1871 in Leipzig, † March 6, 1945 ) was a German sculptor and medalist.
- 2.1 plastic
- 2.2 Busts
- 2.3 plaques and medals ( selection)
Journey
Family
Felix grew up as the third son of six children of Leipzig merchant Friedrich Eduard Pfeifer and his wife Henriette Florentine, née Sparrow, in a middle-class family. In 1906 he married the daughter of a merchant in Dresden and Leipzig Graduate of teaching seminary Johanna Helene Brachmann ( 1883-1963 ). From the marriage produced two children, daughter Regina and son Peter.
Training
From Easter 1890 to 1893 he studied at the Leipzig Academy of Art with Melchior to streets, then moved in 1894 to the Art Academy Berlin- Charlottenburg Peter Breuer and Ernst Herter, and finally his education by studying in Rome ( 1895-1896 ) - where he met the circle around Eugen Diederichs came into contact - and Paris ( 1900) to complete. After he had been in the years 1906-1911 to the artistic perfection in Dresden, he finally settled as a freelance sculptor in Leipzig, where he received the appointment in 1914 as professor.
Artistic creation
Inspired by the literary work of Richard Dehmel, Pfeifer sat in his sculptural work again and again with the topic relationship between two people apart. Great success already achieved its first group of sculptures First Love. Their purchase by the Saxon State was the first in a series of significant orders for the young sculptor. So he paid the choir of Leipzig's St. Nicholas Church with four large alabaster reliefs. Similarly, the reliefs date to the main entrance of the new town hall and the facade figures philosophy, industry and medicine over the entrance of the German Library in Leipzig from his hand. For the fountain figure girl with frog in the foyer of the German Library his daughter Regina was the model.
One of his major works, the sculpture longing combines classic design language with modern design movement. When located in the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig female terracotta bust of 1915 we find "those naturalistic extremely economical, in the deep-rooted psychological view of the Whistler portrait busts of leading minds of the Leipzig intellectual life were particularly appreciated. "
A cast of the original 1927 for the ornamental fountains in front of the building of the Local Health Insurance Fund created Leipzig figure recovery was erected to commemorate the 1936 to be held in Dresden Reichsgartenschau on flower farms of the calibration field. Then was the name of the plastic blissful beauty. Today this work is in the rose garden. On the signature panel on the lawn in front of the plastic is to read that this figure is a gift of the widow to the city of Dresden. " In sculpture his neoclassical style between tradition and modernity to form clarification, plastic renewed rigor and conscious conception of the body added. "
In addition to free and sculptural work in the Leipzig area in front of his achievements in the field of relief, medals and plaque art are emphasized. In the vernacular, it was therefore quite respectfully called " plaques Piper ". Initially a strictly planar - linear Nouveau bound ( Relief Tomb Walter mercury ), he arrived, following on from the French medalists Alexandre Charpentier, Dupuy and Roty, by a delicate, picturesque relief style and his special talent resonate mental moods and strong characterization in his portraits to leave to national significance. "If it is to proclaim the glory of the Leipzig Plaketteure and Medalists, it must be mentioned first Felix Pfeifer. (...) Now he is one of the best relief agents which Germany can boast. "
From his hand also designs for furniture and household equipment are known.
The withdrawn in a villa in Großdeuben lives and works in Leipzig artist died in an accident, he was hit by a clay model in the studio.
Individual Works (selection)
Facade figures on the German Library in Leipzig
Recovery in the Rose Garden Dresden
Mourners, Tomb Franz Wendt, South Cemetery Leipzig
Tomb Gustav Kleim, South Cemetery Leipzig
Portrait medallion tomb Schmacht, South Cemetery Leipzig, 1916
Tomb of Karl Lamprecht, Schulpforta, 1918
Auferstehender youth, Tomb Plato Scutari, South Cemetery Leipzig
Boy with nightingale, Tomb Ilse Rosenthal - Helling, South Cemetery Leipzig
Plastic
Busts
Wilhelm Wundt, Hans Driesch, Theodor Kölliker, John Volkelt, Georg Witkowski, Mary Ney, Paul de Lagarde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe