Adalbert Hertel

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Adalbert Christian Maria Hertel (born May 26, 1868 in Münster , † April 27, 1952 in Cologne ) was a German sculptor and church painter .

Genoveva Fountain (A. Hertel 1914)

Life

Family and professional tradition

Adalbert Hertel came from the family of Hilger Hertel , who would later become a diocesan master builder in Münster, Westphalia, who came from Cologne and whose professional interests have turned to the visual arts for generations . His older brothers Bernhard and Hilger had also turned to architecture and created numerous churches and secular buildings , which they designed preferably in the neo-Gothic style.

Adalbert Hertel was the third eldest son from Hilger Hertel's marriage and, like his father, had the last of his first names as Maria. Hertel's early days were not reported, but an education was given in Karlsruhe and in Düsseldorf from 1886 to 1888 in the sculpture class of August Wittig at the Art Academy .

Working as a Cologne family business

Hertel probably got married in Karlsruhe, as his first son was born there. He later settled in Cologne and had several sons. The oldest was Kurt Hertel (1895–1944), who fell in France, but before that, like his father, worked as a sculptor in Cologne (several memorials in the Siegkreis ) and also portrayed numerous personalities as a painter . Another son was Bruno Hertel (1900–1969), who settled in Cologne as an architect and designed various tombs for his brothers . There was still Hellmuth Hertel (1903-1959), who in the Bayenthaler Schiller Street as head of the studio "A. Hertel ”, a workshop for sculpture and Christian art .

As works in the studio, paintings were created in the churches of St. Peter and St. Cross (?) In Cologne, St. Audomar in Frechen , as well as works in Großbüllesheim , Vicht and Garzweiler .

In 1914, Adalbert Hertel created the Genoveva Fountain , which the factory owner's widow Martin commissioned and donated to the city of Mülheim am Rhein. It remained in today's Cologne district of Mülheim .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ulrich S. Soénius, Jürgen Wilhelm: Kölner Personen-Lexikon. Pp. 238-239.
  2. ^ Finding aid student lists of the Düsseldorf Art Academy 19th century: Hertel, Adalbert, from Münster, August Wittig sculptor class. BR 0004 No. 1561 572V 1886, BR 0004 No. 1561 617V 1887, BR 0004 No. 1562 27V 1888
  3. ↑ a b Robert Steimel: Kölner Köpfe , p. 186
  4. ↑ Ilse Prass: Mülheim am Rhein , city history in street names, p. 112 f
personal data
SURNAME Hertel, Adalbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hertel, Adalbert Christian Maria (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and church painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1952
Place of death Cologne