Georg Schreyögg was a German sculptor. One of his better known surviving works is the 1907 :de:Barbara-Denkmal |St Barbara War Memorial in Koblenz, taken down to make way for a new road in 1956 but returned to a site in the city close to its original location in 2014.
Life
Georg Schreyögg was born in Aitrang, a village in the Alpine foothills near Kempten. He grew up in Mittenwald, however, a small but prosperous transit town southeast of Partenkirchen, along the mountain road towards the Brenner Pass and, beyond that, Lombardy. Mittenwald was a town with a long craft tradition of wood carving and violin making. Georg was the youngest son of the five recorded children born to Mathäus Schreyögg, identified variously as an inn keeper and a master baker, and his wife, born Kreszentia Marie Jörg. Starting in 1884 Georg Schreyögg attended the wood carving school in Partenkirchen. He then attended successively the Royal Academy of Applied Arts and the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich where his teachers included Adolf von Hildebrand and Wilhelm von Rümann. Between 1901 and 1908 Georg Schreyögg worked as a freelance sculptor, based in Munich. During this period, in 1905 he married Elisabeth von Barton. The two of them had three recorded children, born between 1905 and 1914. In Munich Georg Schreyögg attracted royal favour, which took the practical form of a private bursary provided by the Prince Regent. This enabled him to undertake a year's stay in Italy during 1908/09, which appears to have focused, in particular, on Florence and Rome. In 1909 he relocated to Karlsruhe where he took a job as professor at the Academy for Applied Arts in succession to Fridolin Dietsche. Between 1909 and 1912 he drafted several designs for the prestigious Karlsruhe Maiolica producer. Between 1911 and 1914 he was teaching at the :de:Malerinnenschule Karlsruhe|Women's Artists' College in Karsruhe. In 1920 the Academy for Applied Arts in Karlsruhe became the Regional Arts Academy and Georg Schreyögg became its Professor for Sculpture. His pupils here included Franz Danskin, Otto Schneider and.
Works
The spectrum of his work was broad, extending from graves and war memorials to decorations on buildings, fountains and smaller statues. In Karlsruhe he created the reliefs in the Carl HoferBusiness School, the relief "Youth and age", the reliefs at the Exhibition Hall and the "Flora" statue at the entrance to the city park. Elsewhere his works included the "Crucifixion Group" at the Munich Waldfriedhof and the :de:Barbara-Denkmal |St Barbara War Memorial in Koblenz.
Awards and honours
On 10 August 1930 Schreyögg was made an :de:Liste der Ehrenbürger von Mittenwald|honorary citizen of Mittenwald in recognition of his contributions to maintaining the little town's rural character. The citation referred to his having contributed a number of artistic memorials. It was to Mittenwald that he returned when he retired in 1932. There is still a Professor Schreyögg Square named after him in the pedestrian zone on the west side of the town.
