Max Laeuger
Max Laeuger ( born September 30, 1864 in Lörrach, † December 12, 1952 ) was a German sculptor and architect.
Life
Laeuger was born in 1864 as son of the gunsmith Tobias Läuger and the architects daughter Sophie Adler. From 1880 to 1883 he studied with Franz Sales Meyer at the School of Applied Arts in Karlsruhe. There he was in 1884 " substitute teacher " and two years later assistant. In 1898 he was awarded an extraordinary professorship for figure drawing, in 1904 a full professor at the Technical University of Karlsruhe. His teaching was extended to interior design and garden art. The regular retirement took place in 1933, the actual departure was followed two years later.
After he had employed since 1892 in Kandern and in Karlsruhe with ceramics, he founded in 1897 Prof. Laeuger'schen art potteries, which were among the musical works Kandern. By 1914, he delivered 738 vessels and 320 structural ceramic designs. In 1916 he taught in the Karlsruhe Hoff Street own ceramics workshop one. It was here until 1944, inter alia, about 5,000 unique ceramics. From 1921 to 1929 he delivered serially executed designs for the Karlsruhe Majolica Factory. At the National Art School in Karlsruhe he had in 1920 held a teaching ceramics to 1922.
The city of Lörrach in 1939 awarded him an honorary citizen.
Adolf Hitler had Laeuger in May 1944 giving over his armaments minister Albert Speer officer and secret art the Goethe Medal for Art and Science, one of the highest artistic awards of the Nazi Reich.
Max Laeuger died on 12 December 1952 in Lörrach.
Work
Max Laeuger 1907 was a founding member of the Deutscher Werkbund. He was active as an artist in many fields, worked as a graphic artist, painter, designer of craft objects, glass painter, ceramist and as an architect, interior designer and landscape architect. In addition, he was also active as a publicist art didactic works.
At the World Exhibitions in Paris in 1900, 1904 in St. Louis and 1910 in Brussels its ceramic, graphic and sculptural works were presented.
In ceramics, he is regarded as one of its pioneers in the 20th century. He created stained glass in St. John's Church (Mannheim), the Lutheran Church (Karlsruhe), St. Paul's Church in Basel and Paul Church in Bern.
In Baden -Baden, the following works of art created by Max Laeuger:
- The patrons conditioning, located on the Oos gardens in the immediate vicinity of the light Allee. It was donated by the German - American "Coffee King " Hermann Sielcken, Mayor Albert patron named after Baden -Baden, designed by Max Laeuger and created 1909-1912.
- Another major German garden art creation is the built according to plans by Max Laeuger in 1925 water art plant paradise.
- The Fieser Bridge with its ceramic vases, jewelry and the crypt of the Russian Church were executed after Laeugers designs.
Max Laeuger also taught architecture and designed buildings and interiors, where he worked many suggestions of his friend and university colleague Friedrich Ostendorf. In the list of works in archINFORM Villa Albert (1909/1910), the country house of Simon in Wuppertal- Elberfeld (1913 ) and the House Wilmann in Heidelberg ( 1927) are the house Bunge in Aerdenhout ( Netherlands) ( 1908-1911 ), called. For his " foster-brother " Karl Küchlin he designed a villa colony in Bohrertal in Horben at Freiburg im Breisgau (1904 ), the " Küchlin Theatre " in Basel (1912 ) and the Country House Villa Küchlin in Horben (1923). Other country houses for clients from Switzerland were the " Rhaetian Hof" in Basel (House Pradella -Burckhardt, Arnold- Böcklin -Strasse 1, 1923) and the " Hausacher " in Weggis ( on Lake Lucerne ). 1908/1909 was responsible Laeuger for garden design of the designed by Joseph Maria Olbrich Villa Feinhals in Cologne- Marienburg.
Max Laeugers written and draughtsmanship estate is located in the Baden State Library of Karlsruhe, including many paintings, drawings, plans, sketches, among other things
The largest public collection of ( three-dimensional ) works currently owns three countries Museum in Lörrach with 522 artistic ceramics from all periods; added images in various techniques as well as some sketches, studies and plans.