You are bidding on oneHandwritten, signed postcard of the sculptor Herman Geibel (1889-1972).

Motive: Geibel's bronze statue "Urstier" (1935).

Very rare motif; not detectable for me!

The statue is now in the Neue Pinakothek in Munich (modern art collection); it was acquired in 1936 as a purchase at the Great Munich Art Exhibition (Glass Palace Exhibition) in the Neue Pinakothek (opening on April 27, 1936). May 1936, the date of the card's postmark).

postmark Darmstadt, May 27, 1936.

Addressed to Mrs. Tahlmann-Hauschild in Eisleben (the family can be verified as "Thalmann-Hauschild").

With stamp "Darmstadt, the city of art, offers stylish furniture at an advantageous price."

Transcription:"Dear Mrs. Tahlmann! Were you in Leipzig now? And did Mrs. E. look around at my things in the Kunstverein? Thank you very much for lending the lady your mule driver. I can also send the donkey rider to look at it. dr Krafft in L'hafen received a beautiful garden sculpture; Miss Dr. Ambrose born Keller her boy's terra cotta head. I wish you a nice Pentecost and greet you warmly, H. Geibel."

Format: 10.5x14.5cm.

Condition:Thin cardboard stained, with small corner creases. Please also note the pictures!

Internal note: KST 200610 light red folder

About Hermann Geibel (source: wikipedia):

Herman Geibel (* 14. May 1889 in Freiburg im Breisgau; † 20 September 1972 in Darmstadt) was a German sculptor and university teacher.

Life: Hermann Karl Geibel was born in 1889 as the son of Armin Franz Geibel and his wife Elisabeth Margarethe Galli in Freiburg im Breisgau. He grew up in Freiburg and Basel. After school he attended the Art Academy in Dresden in 1909 in the drawing and modeling class. From 1910 to 1913 he was trained in Munich as a draftsman and sculptor. There Geibel also attended sculpture courses with Erwin Kurz and courses with the animal painter Heinrich von Zügel and courses with Gustaf Britsch. During this time he was already thematically committed to depicting animals. Geibel first attracted public attention with two groups of deer, which he created in 1913 for the officer convalescent home at Bühlerhöhe near Baden-Baden. During World War I, Geibel was badly wounded, forcing him to train his left arm as a working arm.

From 1916 to 1934 he lived as a freelance sculptor in Munich. He was in close contact with Karl Albiker. In the 1920s, Geibel undertook numerous extensive study trips to Greece, France, Italy and Spain.

on the 1st On July 1, 1934, Geibel took up an extraordinary professorship for ornamentation and modelling, life drawing and applied plastics at the TH Darmstadt as the successor to Josef Plenk. During his time in Darmstadt, he ran a studio in Kiesstraße, which was destroyed during the heavy bombing raid on Darmstadt on 11 November. September 1944 was completely destroyed.

After becoming a member of the Deutscher Künstlerbund[1], which was banned in 1936, Geibel became a member of the artistic advisory board of the Darmstadt Artists' Community, a unified organization founded by Mayor Otto Wamboldt that same year, which wanted to bring together all local artists under National Socialist leadership. In addition to Geibel, this advisory board included Adolf Beyer, Jakob Krug and Erich Mindner. Geibel was not a member of the NSDAP or any other National Socialist organization, but was put on the God-gifted list (so-called. leader list) of the most important visual artists of the Nazi state. He took part in the large exhibition in Munich's Haus der Deutschen Kunst in 1939 with the bronze works Head of a Young East Frisian and Cow Elk.

For the 30th On September 1, 1954, Geibel retired and then continued to live in Darmstadt as a sculptor. Portraits and depictions of animals predominate in his artistic work. His most famous work of art in Darmstadt is probably the unicorn fountain erected in Kirchstrasse in 1955.

Geibel's first marriage was to Elfriede Eleonore Geibel, and from 1939 his second marriage to the Munich artist Hedwig Kruse (1895–1991).

Hermann Geibel was buried in the forest cemetery in Darmstadt (grave site: L 1 IZ 25).

honors

1959: Johann Heinrich Merck honor from the city of Darmstadt.

1966: Honorary stay at Villa Massimo Rome.