In the Museum of lake Starnberg has just opened a new exhibition. The want to tell the story behind the stocks. And it has the first object in itself.
Starnberg – when and how the life-sized figure of a woman made of plaster-came to the Starnberg city archives, is unclear. There are simply no documents. Is probable, however, that she found after the artist’s death, perhaps as a gift of his widow, on your way there.
At first glance, in some Places a little battered plastic looks classically beautiful, the whole of the Greek Ideal accordingly. However, the brownish color that was applied according to expert opinion, in order to produce more casts of it, is really for the figure.
Museum team sculpture takes a closer look at
almost hidden on the base plate marked “Schmid-Ehmen 1939 can be found”. This prompted the Team of the Museum Starnberger see to it to deal more accurately with the object. The results of the Research you present well as texts and pictures on the wall of the picture room of the Museum, in the center of the exhibition’s eponymous wife, is made of plaster. In the course of the Investigation, a untold, the picture was, according to Museum Director Benjamin Tillig “” – the image of your Creator Kurt Schmid-Ehmen.
plastic probably the precursor to a larger work on the Nazi party rally grounds
Schmid-Ehmen, born in 1901 in Torgau, was regarded as the “eagle maker”. His most famous work: the Imperial eagle with the umkranzten swastika underneath. He was “everywhere, where the Regime wanted it,” said Tillig. In the field, Mr. hall, of the Reich Chancellery, the Nazi party rally grounds in Nuremberg. The eagles have created “well-pretty much all of the” Schmid-Ehmen, adds art historian Katja Sebald.
His first official job after studying art in Munich, the memorial for the Fallen of the Hitler putsch of 1923 at the feldherrenhalle. “From then on Schmid’s career went uphill steeply,” explains Museum Director Tillig. In a group of four figures, which should be recognized as a larger-than-life bronze figures by Albert Speer created the Golden hall on the Reich party rally grounds, there is a figure, “the woman from the plaster looks amazingly similar,” says Tillig. The figure in the Museum Starnberger see is probably a precursor of the monumental work.
sculptor to classification as a “least impacted” more in the right associations
On the site in Nuremberg, Schmid’s career, at least in the icon ended, with the demolition of the Golden swastika, which overlooked the Area. He went, after he was classified, in spite of his many years of SA-membership of a court as the “least impacted”, in 1947, to Starnberg, where he continued in circles, topsy-turvy, which were classified by the protection of the Constitution as the extreme right. Schmid-Ehmen died in 1968.
woman made of plaster, the first part of a series
The woman made of plaster, is the first in a series of exhibitions in which the Museum wants to conceive of an object from its collection, including its history. What is shown next is not fixed yet. At the same time the presentation is also the beginning of the “Zero hour Lab”. Thus, the Museum wants to show 75 years after the end of the war, according to Sebald, it is this given in the art to 1945, unlike the situation in the society. Therefore, it faces the woman made of plaster, a work of abstract painter Rupprecht Geiger.
The exhibition itself, according to Tillich also impetus, “that you look at the objects you have, exactly”. The woman from the plaster is still to be seen until mid-November: Tuesdays to Sundays from 10 to 17 o’clock.
