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Hermann Nonnenmacher - Fleeing woman

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Fleeing woman

SKU: 7782
Signed with initials
Terracotta sculpture 
9 1/4 x 3 in. (23.5 x 7.6 cm)

Presentation:
unframed

Size:
Height – 23.5cm x Width – 7.6cm

DESCRIPTION

Provenance:
The Artist’s Estate; Private collection
Exhibited: WW2 – War Pictures by British Artists, Morley College London, 28 October -23 November 2016, cat 84. 

Literature: WW2 – War Pictures by British Artists, Edited by Sacha Llewellyn & Paul Liss, July 2016, cat 84, page 127.


Herman Nonnenmacher  was  born in Germany, but fled to England in 1938 with his wife the sculptor Erna Rosenberg (1889-1980). Before the rise of Nazism, both  was a well-known sculptors whose works adorned many public buildings in Germany. Hermann and Erna’s art was classified as degenerate by the Nazis, and much of his public sculpture was destroyed. 

During the second world war Hermann and Erna were interned on the Isle of Man.
Erna, who was Jewish,  was the model for this poignant composition of a fleeing figure.



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THE ARTIST

Hermann Nonnenmacher
Hermann
Nonnenmacher
1892 - 1988

Hermann Nonnenmacher was a sculptor, painter and teacher, born in Coburg, Germany, who later lived in London.

Nonnenmacher served in the German Army during World War I. He studied at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, and was a member of the Association of German Artists.
In 1919 he married the sculptor Erna Rosenberg (1889-1980). They lived and worked in Berlin at Potsdamer Str. 29, the former studio of Lyonel Feininger.
Before the rise of Nazism, Nonnenmacher was a well-known sculptor whose works adorned many public buildings in Germany. Hermann and Erna’s art was classified as degenerate by the Nazis, and much of his public sculpture was destroyed. Erna was persecuted as a Jew and they emigrated to London in 1938.
During the second world war Hermann and Erna were interned on the Isle of Man, where Hermann made and exhibited artwork. After the war they set up a studio in a house off Archway Road, London.
Nonnenmacher’s 1928 sculpture “Abschied” (Farewell) is on display in the Berlinische Galerie Berlin.
He was awarded several commissions for public sculpture in Germany before the rise of Nazism. Most or all of this work was destroyed.
Public commissions in England included sculpture for:
Church of St. John, Waterloo, London
Boulton and Paul Ltd. Norwich
Merton College, Oxford
Chapel of Kings College London, two carved wooden sculptures.
In 1982 Hermann Nonnenmacher was awarded the German Federal Cross of Merit by the West German government.
Nonnenmacher died in London in August 1988.
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