RICHARD SCHEIBE (Chemnitz, Germany, 1879 - Berlin, 1964). "Girl's head". Bronze. Signed.
RICHARD SCHEIBE (Chemnitz, Germany, 1879 - Berlin, 1964).
"Girl's head".
Bronze.
Signed.
Exhibitions: "European sculpture of the 20th century", European Museum of Modern Art (MEAM), Barcelona, 2014.
Size: 26 cm (total height).
Richard Scheibe trained as a painter and learned to sculpt on his own from 1906. He met the sculptor Geog Kolbe, who influenced his work (as did Rodin and Aristides Maillol), with whom he always maintained a good friendship. Years later he travelled to Berlin, where he came into contact with the artists' circle of Gerhard Marcks, Walter Gropius and Max Pechstein. In 1914 he joined the Berlin Secession. Between 1925 and 1933 he taught at the Städelsches Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt am Main. He was dismissed from teaching when the Nazis took power, but was reinstated in 1934. During the Third Reich he received several awards, including the Goethe-Medaille für Kunst und Wissenschaft and inclusion on the Gottbegnadeten list. After World War II he continued to sculpt, including a figurative piece for the German Resistance Memorial. His work was also part of the sculpture competition for the 1928 Summer Olympics. After the war, Scheibe remained in Berlin, where he claims to have been associated with those responsible for the assassination attempt on Hitler. He was awarded the Grand Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1954 and in the same year the Goethe Plaque of the City of Frankfurt am Main. At the age of 80, he was appointed honorary senator of the Berlin College of Fine Arts. The 'Memorial to the Victims of 20 July 1944' created by Scheibe was erected in Berlin in 1953.
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RICHARD SCHEIBE (Chemnitz, Germany, 1879 - Berlin, 1964).
"Girl's head".
Bronze.
Signed.
Exhibitions: "European sculpture of the 20th century", European Museum of Modern Art (MEAM), Barcelona, 2014.
Size: 26 cm (total height).
Richard Scheibe trained as a painter and learned to sculpt on his own from 1906. He met the sculptor Geog Kolbe, who influenced his work (as did Rodin and Aristides Maillol), with whom he always maintained a good friendship. Years later he travelled to Berlin, where he came into contact with the artists' circle of Gerhard Marcks, Walter Gropius and Max Pechstein. In 1914 he joined the Berlin Secession. Between 1925 and 1933 he taught at the Städelsches Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt am Main. He was dismissed from teaching when the Nazis took power, but was reinstated in 1934. During the Third Reich he received several awards, including the Goethe-Medaille für Kunst und Wissenschaft and inclusion on the Gottbegnadeten list. After World War II he continued to sculpt, including a figurative piece for the German Resistance Memorial. His work was also part of the sculpture competition for the 1928 Summer Olympics. After the war, Scheibe remained in Berlin, where he claims to have been associated with those responsible for the assassination attempt on Hitler. He was awarded the Grand Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1954 and in the same year the Goethe Plaque of the City of Frankfurt am Main. At the age of 80, he was appointed honorary senator of the Berlin College of Fine Arts. The 'Memorial to the Victims of 20 July 1944' created by Scheibe was erected in Berlin in 1953.
