Sculptures
Medea
Paul Friedrich Gustav Peterich (* 1. February 1864 Bad Schwartau - 22. September 1937 Rotterdam) German Sculptor
Life
Paul Pete Rich was born the son of a master turner in Bad Schwartau, then part of the Principality of Lübeck, and learned after leaving school, until 1881 the trade of wood turner.
In 1884 he was awarded the Grand Duke of Oldenburg, a scholarship to attend the art school in Hamburg and the Art Academy in Berlin. Paul was known as an artist Pete Rich, when he won the 1887 competition for the design of Carl Maria von Weber Monument in Eutin and 1890 competition to design the memorial Reventlou-Beseler. He also won in 1894 the mandate for the development of the Chemnitz-Bellmann monument.
After traveling through Europe, especially to Italy, and his marriage in 1899 he was appointed in 1905 by the Grand Duke of Oldenburg to Oldenburg in Rastede. There he received the title of professor. In 1907 he moved to the vicinity of Florence, where he created especially marble sculpture. After the start of World War I in 1914 he moved to the artist colony Hellerau / Dresden. In 1922 he went to his divorce and second marriage in 1927 to Florence and Capri. 1934 Paul Peterich moved to The Hague (Netherlands), where he died in 1937.
Works
Paul Peterich created a large number of works, mostly sculptures and busts of stone or metal. The whereabouts of most of his works is unknown. Some of his works are in museums or stand as monuments to the public. Part of his metal sculptures were melted down during World War II as non-ferrous metal.
The Museum of Bad Schwartau are the sculpture "Standing Youth" as well as some of the first works of Paul, Peter Self, including his apprenticeship, and a wooden flower stand, a sculpture of "Mother", the model of the relief, "The raising of the young man of Nain," and the sculpture "Madonna" and "After the Bath".
The Carl Maria von Weber monument was erected in Eutin 1890th Receive the bust on a pillar. The corresponding figure in the original muse Polyhymnia was melted down during World War II.
The Matthew Friedrich Chemnitz and dedicated to Carl Gottlieb Bellmann, creators of the Schleswig-Holstein-song, Chemnitz-Bellmann monument was erected in 1896 in Schleswig.
Already in 1891 the then-Reventlou Beseler monument was erected. The group consisted of an obelisk with the Prussian eagle, the busts of Frederick William of Reventlou and Beseler, and the sculpture of a soldier. Only the obelisk has survived. The sculptures were melted down during World War II.
The plastic Medea in 1903 is located in Lower Saxony State Museum of Kun and cultural history in the Castle of Oldenburg. There are also the plastic night guard (1905-1907) and the fountain sculpture boy with fish.
The plastic Dreaming Boy from 1909 can be found in the National Gallery in Berlin.
The fountain sculpture Playing in the Waves was established in 1912 in Bad Schwartau. The sculpture, Triton and Nereid. It was a gift from Peter ego in his hometown. The sculpture was melted 1943rd It was nachgegossen by creation of a reconstruction and in 1997 again placed on the market.
By 1918 he created the angel fountain in the garden of the Karl May Museum in Radebeul. [1]
Paul Rich is father of the writer Pete Pete Rich Eckart (1900-1968)
Literature
Entry Pete Rich, Paul. In: Biographical Dictionary of Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck. Volume 8 Neumünster 1985, pp. 284ff.
George Harder: sculptor Prof. Paul Peterich - Bad Schwartau (1864-1937). Yearbook of National History, Eutin 1981, pp. 147-155.
George Harder: The sculptor Professor Paul Peterich - Life and Work. Bad Schwartau 1988th
George Harder: "Playing in the Waves" - mermaid fountain in Bad Schwartau reborn. Yearbook of National History, Eutin 1998, pp. 105-108.
Paul Peterich. In: Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker, among others: general lexicon of visual arts from antiquity to the present. Volume 26, EA Seemann, Leipzig 1932, p 478
Paul Peterich. In: Hans Vollmer: General Dictionary of Artists of the XX. Century. Bd third EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p 574
Paul Pete Rich Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer, longing for Arcadia - Schleswig-Holstein artists in Italy, Heath 2009, pp. 346-349.
Web Links
Entry in the Karl May Wiki
Rensefelder baptismal register, 1841-1871 - entry dated February 1864 (documentation in the Museum of Bad Schwartau)
Notes and references
↑ John Hösle: Pete Rich, Eckart. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, pp. 236 f (online version).
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