Adolf Lehnert

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Adolf Lehnert (before 1911)

Franz Robert Adolf Lehnert (born July 20, 1862 in Leipzig ; † January 6, 1948 there ) was a sculptor and medalist in Leipzig.

Life

family

He came as the second of a total of twelve children of the engine driver Adolph Lehnert and his Borna- born wife, Lina, née. Werner (1842–1914), to the world. In 1889 the young artist married Else Riedel (1864–1907), a daughter from the highly respected family of Leipzig musicologist and choir director Professor Carl Riedel . After the untimely death of his first wife, he married Johanna Wildenhayn (1875–1957), who gave birth to two children, Siegfried (1910–1941) and Waltraut (1916–2007), in 1909.

education

After attending a secondary school in Leipzig, Adolf Lehnert studied from 1880 to 1888 at the Royal Art Academy in Leipzig with Melchior zur Straßen . At the Academy's annual exhibition of student work, he was awarded the bronze medal in 1882 and the silver medal in 1885. After completing his training, he stayed for another year in Rome and Paris for study purposes .

Teaching

From 1896 to 1924 he worked as a teacher at the Art Academy in Leipzig. Initially, Lehnert was appointed to represent the sick Melchior Zur Straßen at the academy. After the sudden death of his teacher, he was officially appointed head of the sculpture class on December 1, 1897. Lehnert gave lessons in molding from still life , molding from living models and the dimensions of the human figure . In 1907 he was awarded the title of professor of the fourth class of the court ranking . His students included Kurt Schmid-Ehmen , Bruno Eyermann , Fritz Zalisz , Fritz Maenicke , Albrecht Leistner , Max Alfred Brumme , Paul Stuckenbruck and Alfred Thiele , who in turn was to become his successor as head of the sculpture department at the art academy.

Creating art

Bismarck statue in Johannapark in Leipzig (destroyed)

Adolf Lehnert is one of the most important representatives of historicism in Leipzig. He received numerous public and private commissions that document his diverse work. In Leipzig, for example, he was involved in the construction of the New Town Hall , the building of the University Library and the German Library, as well as the Künstlerhaus . He was given preference by the Leipzig upper bourgeoisie with orders for the sculptural design of villas and tombs. In addition to monuments, allegorical figures, friezes and busts with many figures, he also created reliefs and small sculptures. His skills as a portraitist and medalist were particularly in demand . He developed the idealistic style of his teacher Melchior Zur Straßen to ever finer individualization and thus became the founder and at the same time the most important representative of the tradition of Leipzig portrait art.

For the WMF department for electroplating he created some very appealing models of angels, several of which are about 135 cm high electroplating to this day in German and formerly German cemeteries. They were listed in the WMF sample book with and without wings as grave figure No. 745 a by Lehnert . A copy can also be found in the Museum for Sepulchral Culture , Kassel .

From 1912 Lehnert lived and worked in a villa built according to his plans with an attached studio in Markkleeberg . In the last years of his life he lived in a villa in Stötteritz .

Many of his works, made of copper or bronze, fell victim to the needs of the two world wars.

End of life

Tomb of the Adolf Lehnert family (2012)

Adolf Lehnert was buried in the Leipzig South Cemetery (Dept. V.) at the side of his first wife Else († 1907) and his son who died in World War II . After the death of his first wife, he commissioned the architect Karl Poser to design the tomb . The grave relief made of limestone , which shows a young woman who is comforted by an angel in paradise, was created by the artist himself. On the occasion of Adolf Lehnert's 150th birthday, the heavily damaged grave site was extensively restored and commissioned by the Paul Benndorf Society Newly planted according to the historical model.

Memberships

  • since 1885 member of the Riedel-Verein, a choir for the care of sacred vocal music of all times
  • Member of the Leipzig Artists' Association
  • Member of the General German Artists' Cooperative
  • Member of the Leipzig literary-artistic association Stalaktiden
  • Member of the Leipzig Artists' Association Leonids

Works

  • Portrait medallion Joh.Carl Gustav Herrmann, marble, 1895

  • Memorial to Louise Otto-Peters in Leipzig's Rosental

  • Gutenberg Monument in the German Book Trade House in Leipzig, 1900

  • Portrait medallion on the tomb of Louis Kuhne, Südfriedhof Leipzig, 1901

  • Bronze relief 1 on Karl Krause's grave, Neuer Johannisfriedhof Leipzig, 1902

  • Bronze relief 2 on Karl Krause's tomb, Neuer Johannisfriedhof Leipzig, 1902

  • Relief above the main entrance of the Reclam publishing house in Leipzig, 1905

  • Marble relief on the grave of the Lehnert family, Südfriedhof Leipzig, 1907

  • Portrait medallion on the Lange-Lorenz tomb, Südfriedhof Leipzig, 1915

  • Portrait medallion at the tomb of Dr. Ludwig Schwabe, Südfriedhof Leipzig, 1916

  • Marble relief on Alfred Lodde's tomb, Leipzig Südfriedhof, 1917

  • Marble figure on Otto Harrassowitz's tomb, Südfriedhof Leipzig, 1920

  • Mourners with a palm tree at the Naumann tomb, Südfriedhof Leipzig, 1920

  • Monument to the fallen in the cemetery of the Ev. Auenkirchgemeinde in Markkleeberg, 1921

  • Friedrich List bust at the west exit of Leipzig Central Station, 1927

  • Grabengel ( electroplating ) based on a model by Adolf Lehnert

  • Marble bust Karl Samwer , 1928

  • Bronze bust of Georg Grimpe, Südfriedhof Leipzig, 1928

  • Signature Adolf Lehnert on the bronze bust Georg Grimpe

Publicly and privately owned works (selection)

Busts, medallions and reliefs for grave monuments (selection)

Lost works (selection)

  • 1895 (together with Josef Mágr ): Bismarck monument in Leipzig, first in front of the New Theater , 1897 in Johannapark , destroyed in 1946
  • 1897 artistic decoration of the Thüringer Hof inn in Leipzig with bronze reliefs on the city's history, destroyed in 1943
  • 1897 War memorial in Rochlitz , destroyed in 1942
  • 1900 Gutenberg Monument for the German Book Trade House in Leipzig, destroyed in 1943
  • 1915 Memorial of Labor ( Ernst Albert Naether ) in Zeitz
  • 1927 Friedrich List bust for the List Harkort monument in Leipzig (bust since 1999 on the cross platform of Leipzig Central Station)
  • 1927 Gregory Memorial in Leipzig (relief plate melted down)

Medals and plaques (selection)

literature

  • Hartmut Coch: Sculptor Adolf Lehnert Leipzig and the School of Medalists at the Academy for Graphic Arts and Book Industry. Saalfeld 1993.
  • Reiner Sörries: Be comforted .... In: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Friedhof und Denkmal (Ed.): Activity report 1992. Kassel 1993, p. 3ff.
  • Alfred E. Otto Paul: The art in silence. Art treasures in Leipzig cemeteries. ed. from Paul-Benndorf-Gesellschaft zu Leipzig, No. 1., Leipzig 2009.

Web links

Commons : Adolf Lehnert  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to the information on the tombstone
  2. ↑ Oberhessischer Geschichtsverein: Restored galvanized angel back in the old cemetery in Gießen ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 5, 2010
  3. ↑ Mozartstrasse 1
  4. ↑ Schönbachstrasse 15
  5. ^ Stages of Life , website of the Museum of the German Insurance Industry, accessed on February 5, 2010
  6. ↑ Restoration of the grave map sculpture Grimpe September 2009 ( memento from August 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 5, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Lehnert, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lehnert, Franz Robert Adolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and medalist in Leipzig
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 1948
Place of death Leipzig