Alexander Calandrelli

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Equestrian statue of Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia in front of the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin-Mitte
Signature of Alexander Calandrelli

Alexander Emil Ludovico Calandrelli (born May 9, 1834 in Berlin , † May 26, 1903 in Lankwitz ) was a German sculptor of Italian descent.

Life

The son of the gemstone cutter and draftsman Giovanni Calandrelli , who was appointed from Rome in 1832, graduated from the Berlin Academy of Arts from 1847 to 1850 . However, for lack of money, he had to quit his studies early. However, he was able to continue his training in the workshops of August Wredow , Friedrich Wilhelm Dankberg (until 1852) and Friedrich Drake (until 1855). He then worked for Ferdinand August Fischer until 1863 . From 1864 he ran his own workshop. Small wax works, which he had learned to make at Fischer, formed the transition to larger sculptures. Calandrelli's first major wax work was a model for a silver centerpiece.

In 1874 Calandrelli became professor of sculpture, in 1883 a member and in 1887 a member of the Senate of the Academy of Arts. His best-known students include August Gaul and Martin Götze .

Alexander Calandrelli was buried in Berlin's state-owned Wilmersdorf cemetery , Berliner Straße 81-103. A street in Berlin-Lankwitz was named after him before 1878.

Services

Calandrelli had been one of the preferred artists of the imperial court since the 1870s. The moderate classicism of his work characterizes him as a late representative of the Rauch School in the Berlin School of Sculpture , whose influence lost massively in importance at the end of the 19th century. He was one of the better sculptors of his time for calm still pictures with the required great portrait accuracy. You can see for yourself in Rathenow . Here he created the monument to the founder of the German optical industry Johann Heinrich August Duncker on behalf of the entrepreneur Emil Busch in 1885 , which still welcomes visitors to the station forecourt in Rathenow today.

Works

Farewell of the compatriot to August Wittig
Battle of Rudolf Schweinitz
Caring for the wounded by Ludwig Brodwolf (partially destroyed, but left in place)
Happy homecoming from Alexander Calandrelli
August Wittig (1823-1893): The Vistula (wood rafting, wheat harvesting woman)
Rudolf Schweinitz (1839–1896): The Oder (woman, miner, sheep shearer)
Alexander Calandrelli: The Elbe (Mercury and a Boy with a Gear)
Rudolf Schweinitz (1839–1896) The Rhine (grape harvest, salmon catch)
  • 1871–73 the relief of exodus of the troops and storming of the Düppeler Schanzen on the west side of the base of the Berlin Victory Column , which refers to the German-Danish War of 1864 (according to Meyer's lexicon the best of the four reliefs ). Some of the figures in the relief can be identified as historical persons: Partial view 1, group at the top left: Ferdinand Heinrich August Knerk (state official), Johann Heinrich Strack (architect), Heinrich Ludwig Alexander Herrmann (technical management) - they were responsible for the construction of the Victory Column . To the right of the preacher Wilhelm Hoffmann. Partial view 3, center: Major General Eduard von Raven , he died after being wounded while storming the Düppelner Schanzen. Partial view 4, bottom left: Pioneer Lieutenant Lommatzsch died as a standard bearer in the attack.

  • Partial view 1

  • Partial view 2

  • Partial view 3

  • Partial view 4

Johann Heinrich Strack - bust for his grave in Berlin
Bust for the Duncker monument in Rathenow , 1885
Relief image Franz Schwechten (1895)
Elector Friedrich I. - Monument in Friesack (destroyed)
  • undated
Drafts for a boathouse or tourist house in Berlin-Grünau , Dahmestraße 6, completed in 1910
War memorial in Eltville on the Rhine
Base figures on the war memorial (?) In Alsen
Bronze bust of Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke in the Kaiserhain on the Hutberg near Großschönau (Saxony)
Trautchen , bust of a young girl with loose hair (auction sale 1994)
female nude , bronze statuette (auction 2004) probably a nymph (see above)
Equestrian statue of King Wilhelm I in tournament costume with two Landsknechten, 2 m high

literature

  • Peter Bloch , Waldemar Grzimek : The Berlin School of Sculpture in the 19th Century. Classic Berlin. Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 1978. (revised edition 1994)
  • Peter Bloch, Sibylle Einholz , Jutta von Simson: Ethos & Pathos. The Berlin School of Sculpture 1786–1914. (Catalog and volume accompanying the exhibition) Berlin 1990.
  • Michael Puls: Gustav Hermann Bläser. On the life and work of a Berlin sculptor. Letter Foundation, Cologne 1996.
  • Uta Lehnert: The Kaiser and the Siegesallee. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 1998.
  • Bernhard Maaz (Ed.): National Gallery Berlin. The XIX. Century. Inventory catalog of the sculptures. Publisher EA Seemann, 2006.

Web links

Commons : Alexander Calandrelli  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Calandrellistrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
  2. ↑ Happy Homecoming ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ); Image on bildhauerei-in-berlin.de
  3. ↑ War memorial on Landsberger Allee ( memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), historical photo on bildhauerei-in-berlin.de
  4. ^ Local association Grünau ev (Ed.): Festschrift 250 years Grünau. C. Press Agency & Publishing House, 1999.
personal data
SURNAME Calandrelli, Alexander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Calandrelli, Alexander Emil Ludovico (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor of Italian descent
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 26, 1903
Place of death Lankwitz