Edmund Moeller (sculptor)



Edmund Moeller (8 August 1885 in Neustadt, Bavaria – 19 January 1958 in Dresden, Saxony), German sculptor of the first half of the twentieth century, he studied in Dresden and Düsseldorf, was award-winning art from its beginnings, it is one of those rare artists whose original work was able to win the praise of success. In few works, as in the vast work of Moeller, so diaphanous is the process of artistic evolution, the inquisitions, the hesitations, the affectations, the profound influences.

Life and career
Moeller was born in Neustadt in the district of Coburg, a city of the Free State of Bavaria in the Federal Republic of Germany. He studied in Dresden and Düsseldorf and also in Italy. On 22 March 1907 Prince Johann Georg of Coburg, representing the academic council of Dresden, whose Academy of Arts Moeller was a disciple of Roberto Diez, the young sculptor gave the top prize of 200,000 marks, to pursue studies in Italy. For his work in the Freedom Monument in the city of Trujillo, received from Peruvian government the highest title that grants the state: The Medal The Sun of Peru and also the title of professor. He died in Dresden in 1958.

Work
One of his best known works of sculpture is the Liberty Memorial opened in 1927 in the city of Trujillo. It was created to celebrate and memorialize the independence of Trujillo from Spain. This sculpture is located in the Plaza de Armas of Trujillo. Edmund Moeller won the international competition held by the Municipality of Trujillo for the construction of the sculpture whose work until the inauguration lasted 4 years one month and 25 days for the Memorial Freedom remains totally and permanently installed in place.

The Ball Young earned him the Prix de Rome, and at an art exhibition in Berlin in 1914, he received the gold medal. The Lamentation marble statue was acquired the following year by the state of Saxony for the Museum of Leipzig. In 1917 the Albertinum in Dresden purchased his bust of Max Liebermann and the Prussian Ministry of the group worship acquired Samson and the Lion, for the German evangelical Church in Rome.