Albert Hinrich Hussmann

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Albert Hinrich Hussmann , also Albert Hinrich Hussmann (born March 3, 1874 in Lüdingworth , † November 15, 1946 in Fürstenberg ) was a German sculptor and painter.

biography

After his school days in Lüdingworth and Cuxhaven , Hussmann studied at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin . He soon specialized in the representation of horse and equestrian statues and was thus regularly represented at the major Berlin art exhibition from 1899. After completing his studies, Hussmann received a professorship at the University of Fine Arts and had his own studio in Berlin . In 1914 Kaiser Wilhelm II awarded him the Golden Medal for Art for one of his equestrian statues.
In 1911 he married his wife Wally.

After his Berlin studios were destroyed, Hussmann and his wife moved to Fürstenberg an der Weser in 1944 . Until his death he designed numerous porcelain figurines for the local porcelain manufacturer Fürstenberg .

The community of Fürstenberg honored Hussmann by naming a square with a small park after him. Wally Hussmann donated the horse statue “Thoroughbred”, which escaped destruction in Berlin, to design Hussmannplatz.

plant

Hussmann's horse statue in Fürstenberg
Gauherr horse sculpture from 1944 in the Museum Schloss Fürstenberg

Hussmann was one of the most important animal sculptors of the 20th century. Numerous works of art of lifelike animal replicas, predominantly bronze and porcelain sculptures , formed his life's work. From 1909 to 1943 at the latest, he also regularly designed sculptures for the Rosenthal porcelain factory in Selb . Hussmann's life-size bronze sculpture “Grazing Horse” was acquired by Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach for the park of Villa Hügel in Essen before 1924 .

In January 2019, an episode of the NDR's Lieb & Teuer program was broadcast, moderated by Janin Ullmann and filmed in Reinbek Castle . A bronze statuette of a Hussmann stallion was discussed with the art historian Stephan Schwarzl.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Profile on kunstmarkt.com
  2. ↑ a b c d Hinrich Gerkens u. a., Chronicle of the Parish Lüdingworth, History and Homeland Association Lüdingworth from 1988 e. V., 2000.
  3. ↑ Renate Köhne-Lindenlaub, "Villa Hügel in Essen", 1st edition 1989, p. 38.
  4. ↑ Video stallion bronze by Hinrich Hussmann on ndr.de
  5. ↑ Information about the episode on ndr.de

literature

  • Nicola Borger-Keweloh: Fiesenzimmer, an exhibition and a bronze horse . In: Men from the Morgenstern Heimatbund at the mouth of the Elbe and Weser. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 824 . Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven August 2018, p. 3 ( digital version [PDF; 4.5 MB ; accessed on January 19, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Hussmann, Albert Hinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hussmann, Albert Hinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludingworth
DATE OF DEATH November 15, 1946
Place of death Furstenberg