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
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member Outspoken1
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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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