Alexander Tondeur

Scharnhorst monument in Bordenau (1905, last work)

Portrait medallion of Alexander Tondeur on the grave of Rudolf Gneist in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery (1895)

Alexander Tondeur (born July 17, 1829 in Berlin , † April 21, 1905 in Schöneberg ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Tondeur, son of the businessman Wilhelm Tondeur, attended the Berlin Art Academy from 1848 and was then trained by Gustav Bläser . After he stayed in Vienna from 1852 to 1854 , he continued his studies in Paris and in 1856 in Rome . In 1858 he began an extensive activity in Berlin, mainly in allegorical and mythological figures.

Alexander Tondeur was buried in the Friedrichswerder cemetery in Berlin-Kreuzberg .

plant

The sculpture of a wounded Venus , carried by the iris to Olympus , and a marble group symbolizing mother's love were created in Rome .

Borussia as a fountain figure with the four main rivers of Prussia
Spring, summer and autumn as decorative female robe figures, a triton in a shell and two of the colossal city figures in the Berlin stock exchange
Vases in memory of the German-Danish War and the German War
Group day and night
Pan surprising a nymph who draws water ; of delicate feeling and great care in execution (1867)
Bronze statues of Bülow and Blucher on the pedestal of the large equestrian statue of Friedrich Wilhelm III. by Gustav Bläser in Cologne (1878)
Bust of Ludwig Graf Yorck von Wartenburg for the Hall of Fame in Berlin
two restorations of reliefs of the Pergamene gigantomachy
Statue by Karl Otfried Müller for the vestibule of the Altes Museum
Bust of Anna Schepeler-Lette for the vestibule of the Lette Association (1897)

literature

Tondeur, Alexander . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 33 : Theodotos vacation . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1939, p. 274 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ Date of birth according to Thieme-Becker
↑ Death register StA Schöneberg I, No. 445/1905.

personal data
SURNAME	Tondeur, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	July 17, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	April 21, 1905
Place of death	Schöneberg

[1] Date of birth according to Thieme-Becker

[2] Death register StA Schöneberg I, No. 445/1905.