Syrius Eberle (9 December 1844 – 12 April 1903) was a German sculptor and art professor.

Biography

Eberle was born in

Pfronten Pfronten ( Swabian: ''Pfronte'') is a municipality in the district of Ostallgäu in Bavaria in Germany. Geography Pfronten is one of a total of 45 towns, markets and municipalities in the district of Ostallgäu. Pfronten is located on the n ...

Allgäu The Allgäu (Standard ) is a region in Swabia in southern Germany. It covers the south of Bavarian Swabia, southeastern Baden-Württemberg, and parts of Austria. The region stretches from the pre-alpine lands up to the Alps. The main rivers flo ...

, the son of a carpenter.Akademie der Bildenden Künste München
''Syrius Eberle, 02256, zweites Matrikelbuch 1841-1884''
Accessed on 2 October 2011. He married the daughter of the lithographer Thomas Driendl (1805–1859), also from Pfronten. He first trained as a cabinet maker, and then studied from 1866 to 1872 at the Königliche Kunstakademie ("Royal Academy of Arts") in Munich. From 1884 he was himself a professor in the department of religious sculpture.Akademie der Bildenden Künste München
''Lehrer der Akademie. Eberle, Syrius''
Accessed on 2 October 2011. Among his students were , ,

Heinrich Waderé Heinrich Maria Waderé (2 July 1865 – 27 February 1950) was a German sculptor and medal engraver. Waderé was born in Colmar, then part of the French Empire but incorporated in the German Empire about six years later. After an apprenticeship ...

, Johann Vierthaler, , Georg Wrba, Georg Busch, Clemens Buscher, , , Josef Flossmann, August Drumm, and Ignatius Taschner. Ludwig II, King of Bavaria, gave him several commissions for decorations for his newly built castles, and also for single figures, groups, panels, and almost all his carriages and sledges. He also created the former war memorial in

Kempten Kempten (; ) is the largest town of Allgäu, in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany. The population was about 68,000 in 2016. The area was possibly settled originally by Celts, but was later taken over by the Romans, who called the town ''Cambodunum''. K ...

, which in his time stood on the site of the present bus station. The bronze figures were melted down during

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

. In 1889 his design in the competition for a national monument to the

Brothers Grimm The Brothers Grimm ( or ), Jacob Grimm, Jacob (1785–1863) and Wilhelm Grimm, Wilhelm (1786–1859), were Germans, German academics who together collected and published folklore. The brothers are among the best-known storytellers of Oral tradit ...

won only third prize. The organisers disagreed however about the design that won first prize, by the sculptor , whereupon they sought the opinion of

Wilhelm Grimm Wilhelm Carl Grimm (also Karl; 24 February 178616 December 1859) was a German author, philologist and anthropologist. He was the younger brother of Jacob Grimm, of the literary duo the Brothers Grimm. Life and work Wilhelm was born in February 1 ...

's son, the art and literary historian

Herman Grimm Herman Grimm (6 January 1828 in Kassel16 June 1901 in Berlin) was a German academic and writer. Family and education Grimm's father was Wilhelm Grimm (1786–1859), and his uncle Jakob Grimm (1785–1863), the philologist compilers of indigenou ...

of Berlin. He decided on Eberle's design, and the commission for the monument was therefore given to him. On 18 October 1896 the formal unveiling of the monument took place. During the years 1890-1892 he made the four pylons for the ' ("Ludwig Bridge") in Munich, as well as the 1890 monument in the Ottostrasse to

Franz Xaver Gabelsberger Franz Xaver Gabelsberger (9 February 1789, Munich - 4 January 1849, Munich) was a German stenographer; the inventor of Gabelsberger shorthand. Biography His father was a wind instrument manufacturer, originally from Mainburg, who died whi ...

, the inventor of

stenography Shorthand is an abbreviated symbolic writing method that increases speed and brevity of writing as compared to longhand, a more common method of writing a language. The process of writing in shorthand is called stenography, from the Greek ''s ...

. As a professor at the Munich Kunstakademie he was a member in 1893 of the commission formed to evaluate the suggestions for the new building of the ''

Bayerisches Nationalmuseum The Bavarian National Museum () in Munich is one of the most important museums of decorative arts in Europe and List of largest art museums, one of the largest art museums in Germany. Since the beginning the collection has been divided into two ...

'' (built 1894/95). In addition, he was a member of the Munich ''Albrecht-Dürer-Verein'', an association of students of the Academy of Arts founded in 1885 by his former student, Georg Busch. Here too he gave evening sessions on the composition of Christian themes.Susanne Kähler: ''Fortuna für die Stadt. Zur Wiederaufstellung der Kuppelfigur auf Ludwig Hoffmanns Stadthaus''
/ref> In August 1897, he won the competition for the equestrian statue of

Kaiser Wilhelm I Wilhelm I (Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig; 22 March 1797 – 9 March 1888) was King of Prussia from 1861 and German Emperor from 1871 until his death in 1888. A member of the House of Hohenzollern, he was the first head of state of a united Germany ...

Nuremberg Nuremberg (, ; ; in the local East Franconian dialect: ''Nämberch'' ) is the Franconia#Towns and cities, largest city in Franconia, the List of cities in Bavaria by population, second-largest city in the States of Germany, German state of Bav ...

, but retired to

Bozen Bolzano ( ; ; or ) is the capital city of South Tyrol (officially the province of Bolzano), Northern Italy. With a population of 108,245, Bolzano is also by far the largest city in South Tyrol and the third largest in historical Tyrol. The g ...

in the

South Tyrol South Tyrol ( , ; ; ), officially the Autonomous Province of Bolzano – South Tyrol, is an autonomous administrative division, autonomous provinces of Italy, province in northern Italy. Together with Trentino, South Tyrol forms the autonomo ...

, where he died in 1903, before its completion. The commission was taken over by

Wilhelm von Rümann Wilhelm von Rümann (11 November 1850 in Hanover – 6 February 1906 in Ajaccio) was a prominent German sculptor, based in Munich. Life Rümann was born in Hanover. He studied from 1872 to 1874 at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich (''Akademie d ...

Selected works

File:München Ludwigsbrücke d2 Pylon links Detail.JPG, Detail from a pylon at the ''Ludwigsbrücke'' File:Monument for Franz Xaver Gabelsberger, Munich - DSC08682.jpg, Monument to

File:München Ludwigsbrücke f Pylone rechts.jpg, Two of Eberle's pylons for the ''Ludwigsbrücke'', Munich File:Grimm-Hanau.JPG, National Monument to the

Hanau Hanau () is a city in the Main-Kinzig-Kreis, in Hesse, Germany. It is 25 km east of Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main and part of the Frankfurt Rhine-Main, Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region. Its railway Hanau Hauptbahnhof, station is a ma ...

File:Nuernberg-Reiterstandbild Wilhelm I.jpg, Equestrian statue to

Notes and references

Sources

* ''Syrius Eberle'' in: Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker et al.: ''Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart''. Band 10, p. 301. E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1914 * ''Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon'' (2002), vol. 31, p. 559

External links

Nationaldenkmal der Brüder Grimm
{{DEFAULTSORT:Eberle, Syrius 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists German male painters 20th-century German painters People from Ostallgäu 1844 births 1903 deaths 20th-century German sculptors 20th-century German male artists German male sculptors 19th-century German sculptors