Adolph Amberg
Adolph Amberg (born July 31, 1874 in Hanau ; † July 3, 1913 in Berlin ) was a German sculptor , medalist and designer and modeller for table decorations made of precious metals and porcelain. His work can be assigned to Art Nouveau .
Life
In 1884/85 Adolph Amberg attended the drawing academy in his hometown, then the teaching institute of the Berlin Museum of Applied Arts. After a stay in Paris , where he attended the Académie Julian , he moved to the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin . There he was a master student with Louis Tuaillon .
From 1894 to 1904, various silver implements were made for the Peter Bruckmann & Sons silver goods factory in Heilbronn . With a view to the upcoming wedding of the Prussian Crown Prince in 1904/05, Amberg designed the centerpiece entitled “Wedding procession”. The elaborate, monochrome white in the original version, composed of numerous figures porcelain cycle but found no favor and was only from the 1908 Royal Porcelain Manufactory made (KPM) in Berlin. It has been published several times and also exists with subtle golden or colored accessories.
In 1905 he made the frescoes in the wedding room of the Heilbronn town hall , the furnishings of which were donated by his company.
Works
- 1900 German music , silver fountain for the Paris World Exhibition , in collaboration with the sculptor Otto Rieth
- 1903 design for the Aachen council silver
- 1904/05 wedding procession , centerpiece, consisting of a jardinière, two fruit bowls, two candelabras and twenty individual figures, including:
- The bride as Europe on the bull
- The bridegroom as a Roman warrior on horseback
- Assyrian with dog
- African with French horn
- Arabs with bagpipes
- Japanese with fish
- Two Etruscans wearing armor
- Kneeling Egyptian with a pearl-filled shell
- Kneeling Turkish woman with bowl of roses
- Egyptian woman with deer
- African woman with monkey
- Indian woman with peacock
- Chinese woman with a parrot
- Japanese woman with mandolin
- Persian woman with tambourine
- 1912 Trotting horse
- 1912 naiad
- 1913 Design for the statue of Kaiser Wilhelm II on horseback for the Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin
Individual evidence
- ^ Adolf Amberg. Artist. German Society for Medal Art, accessed on February 16, 2016 .
- ↑ Irene von Treskow: Amberg, Adolph In: AKL Online De Gruyter, Berlin. Doc-ID: _10081326
- ↑ Complete list of the figures of the KPM wedding procession ( Memento of the original from December 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
literature
- Peter Bloch , Sibylle Einholz , Jutta von Simson (eds.): Ethos and Pathos. The Berlin School of Sculpture 1786–1914. Volume 2: Contributions with short biographies of Berlin sculptors. Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-7861-1598-2 , S. #.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Amberg, Adolph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Amberg, Adolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 31, 1874 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanau |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 3, 1913 |
| Place of death | Berlin |