Otto Geyer

Karl Otto Ludwig Geyer ( born January 8, 1843 in Charlottenburg, † March 1914 in Charlottenburg ) was a German sculptor.

Life

Otto Geyer, brother of the architect Albert Geyer, studied in the years 1859-1864 at the Royal Academy of Arts and in the studio of the sculptor Hermann Schievelbein. After the death Schievelbeins in 1867 he took over his studio. Geyer continued his studies in 1869 in Copenhagen at the Thorvaldsen Museum continues.

From 1891 he taught at the Technical College of Charlottenburg (today the Technical University of Berlin), from 1892 also at the II craft school, whose director he was from 1904 to 1913. 1893 Geyer was awarded the title of professor. Geyer students are, inter alia, the sculptor Lilli Finzelberg and porcelain artist Hugo Meisel ( 1887-1966 ).

After his death, Otto Geyer was buried in the cemetery Wilmersdorf.

Works

  • Plastic work on the Natural History Museum in Gotha, 1866
  • Marble bust of a young girl, National Gallery in Berlin, 1868
  • Plastic jewelry on the Vistula bridge Thorn, 1874
  • Frieze ( Terracotta ) at the main front of the Red Town Hall (Berlin -Mitte), about 1877
  • Group of figures river traffic on the bridge at the Halle Gate (Berlin- Kreuzberg), 1879
  • Medallions with images of architecture and engineering science at the Anhalt Bahnhof, Berlin, 1872-1880
  • Reliefs and statues at Strasbourg train station, 1882
  • Kaiser Wilhelm monument in Iserlohn, 1883
  • War Memorial ( to the fallen of 1866 and 1870 /71) in Mühlhausen, 1883, terminated in 1967
  • Resurrection Angel on the Luisenstädtischer Cemetery (Berlin- Kreuzberg), 1886
  • Grave relief Paul Eckel mountain in the cemetery of the Twelve Apostles church ( Berlin- Schöneberg), 1897
  • Bronze figure ( balancing on a turtle boy ), 1900
  • Fries in the atrium of the German Museum of Applied Arts, now the Martin-Gropius -Bau (Berlin- Kreuzberg)
  • Capitals and pulpit in the Sacred Heart of Jesus Church (Berlin- Prenzlauer Berg)
  • Two reliefs at Köln Hauptbahnhof (only plaster copies received )
  • Medallion at the grave of the architect Hermann Friedrich Waesemanns in the cemetery II of Sophie community of Berlin (Berlin -Mitte)
  • Man with bronze mirror, Nationalgalerie Berlin
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