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

Biography

Eberle was born in Pfronten,

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, 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, Johann Vierthaler, ,

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, Georg Busch,

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, , , Josef Flossmann, August Drumm, and

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, 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

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

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

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

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's son, the art and literary historian

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. 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

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, the inventor of

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. 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 ''

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'' (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

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, but retired to

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in the

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

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

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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
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