Adolf Fremd
Adolf Fremd (born May 18, 1853 in Vaihingen on the Fildern , † February 19, 1924 in Stuttgart ) was a German sculptor . He created numerous sculptures and monuments in Stuttgart.
Life
Foreign attended the Stuttgart art school , where he was a student of Bernhard Neher and Theodor Wagner . From 1874 he studied at the Dresden Art Academy with Ernst Hähnel . Two years later he became an assistant in Adolf von Donndorf's studio in Stuttgart. In 1886 he won second prize in a competition for a memorial for Johann Heinrich Dannecker in Stuttgart, the last pupil of which he called himself. He was friends with the stone sculptor Kurt Fanghänel , and it is believed that he was instrumental in foreign works made of stone. More often, however, Fremd created models for bronze casting . Monument busts, reliefs and larger-than-life figures were created.
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Bad Carlsruhe in Silesia
- 1878: Bust of Duke Wilhelm Eugen von Württemberg in the castle
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Champigny (France)
- around 1910: War memorial for the German soldiers who fell in the Franco-German War of 1870/1871
- Stuttgart
- 1878: Bust of Duke Wilhelm Eugen of Württemberg
- Statue of Ludwig Uhland in the town hall
- 1895: Physics and chemistry, allegorical attic statues, State Trade Museum Stuttgart, destroyed in World War II
- 1896: Figure decorations on the Marquardtbau , destroyed in World War II except for two niche figures on the 2nd floor on Bolzstrasse
- 1897–1901: four allegorical figures for the King Charles Bridge
- 1899: Night watchman fountain in front of the Leonhardskirche
- 1903: Monument bust of Franz Liszt in the upper palace garden
- 1904: Urban statue on Urbansplatz, melted down during World War II
- 1910: Rudolf-Keller-Brunnen on Gablenberger Weg
- 1912: Sculpture and Allegory of Painting, two allegorical attic statues at the Great House of the Stuttgart State Theater
- 1922 or 1926: Meadow nymph based on the group of nymphs by Johann Heinrich Dannecker (today in the Stuttgart Lapidarium)
- 1926: Fritz-Keller -Brünnele at the forest cemetery in Stuttgart
- Schiller memorial stone in Vaihingen on the Fildern with relief, replica 1949
- Tübingen
- Seated image of Count Eberhard im Barte on the Neckar Bridge
gallery
Night watchman fountain in the bean district
Detail from the night watchman fountain
Franz Liszt Monument
Urband monument, melted down in the 1940s
Schiller memorial stone in Vaihingen
Meadow nymph
Fritz-Keller -Brünnele
Rudolf Keller Fountain
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literature
- Dankmar Trier: Stranger, Adolf . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 44, Saur, Munich a. a. 2005, ISBN 3-598-22784-1 , p. 392.
- Stranger, Adolf . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 12 : Fiori-Fyt . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1916, p. 415 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Gustav Wais : Stuttgart's art and cultural monuments. 25 pictures with city history, architectural history and art history explanations. Stuttgart 1954.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Kurt Fanghänel, employee of Professor Fremd" - In: Chronik der Stadt Stuttgart , Volume 50 (1990) (Nekrolog)
- ↑ a b c d Gustav Wais : Stuttgart's art and cultural monuments. 25 pictures with city history, architectural history and art history explanations. Stuttgart 1954.
- ^ Karl Leibbrand: The König-Karls-Brücke over the Neckar between Stuttgart and Cannstatt. Ernst & Son, Berlin 1895.
- ^ Wilhelm Kick (ed.): Modern new buildings . Continuously published illustrated sheets for architecture. 4. [1902], with text on plate 30, after text on plate 40 (night watchman fountain).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stranger, Adolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 18, 1853 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vaihingen on the Fildern |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 19, 1924 |
| Place of death | Stuttgart |