Eva - Hamburg, Deutschland
N 53° 35.696 E 010° 01.771
32U E 568136 N 5938947
Marmorskulptur mit dem Titel "Eva" von Oscar E. Ulmer im Adam & Eva Garten im Hamburger Stadtpark
Waymark Code: WMYX64
Location: Hamburg, Germany
Date Posted: 08/05/2018
Views: 9
In the Adam and Eve garden, a part of the Hamburg city park, designed according to strictly geometrical layouts, this marble sculpture with the title "Eva" is located. Eva is part of the two-part sculptural group Adam + Eve and was created in 1921 by the Hamburg sculptor Oskar E. Ulmer.
Oskar Ulmer - artistic career:
- born in Hamburg 1888
- complete name Oskar Erwin Ulmer
- After school studies at the School of Applied Arts in Hamburg - Altona
- Further study of sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich Sculpture with Adolf von Hildebrandt
- commissioned work by the Hamburg architect Fritz Schumacher on the embellishment of facades in the Hanseatic city
- 1913 probably one of his first mother-child sculptures is located in Hamburg at a former government building
- c. 1918 Production of the bust of Johann Wilhelm Cordes for its monument on the Ohlsdorf cemetery
- After 1918 member of the Artists Council for Public Art in Hamburg
- Mother-child sculptures, often in erotic, half-naked poses, become the big topic of Oskar Ulmer
- 1920s Oskar Ulmer opens a stonemason's shop for tombs and also trains stonemasons
- Member of the Hamburger Künstlerverein and the Hamburger Sezession
- Oskar Ulmer produces a variety of sculptures, including for the Hamburger Kunsthalle, churches, public buildings and of course for graves on the Ohlsdorf Cemetery
- 1941 participation in the great German art exhibition in Munich with a mother-child sculpture; In 1945 this sculpture is used for a family grave. There, on the Olsdorf Cemetery, the sculptor himself is buried with his wife
- Oskar Ulmer died at the age of 75 in Hamburg. The year of death is different with 1963 and 1964 respectively
Name or use 'Unknown' if not known: Eva
Figure Type: Human
Artist Name or use 'Unknown' if not known: Oskar E. Ulmer
Date created or placed or use 'Unknown' if not known: 1921
Materials used: Marmor und Kalkstein
Location: Adam und Eva Garten
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