Alexander of choice

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Alexander Ludwig Amandus von Wahl (born December 10, 1839 in Taifer, Estonia , then Russia, † December 2, 1903 in Munich ) was a Baltic German sculptor and painter .

Life

By choice was the son of the landowner Alexej von Wahl (1808–1866) and his wife Kornelia (nee Knirsch, 1808–1858). He grew up with his siblings on their father's estate Assick and studied from 1858 to 1861 at the Imperial Russian Art Academy in Saint Petersburg sculpture with Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg . Then he went to Munich for further training. His entry into Max von Widnmann's sculpting class at the Munich Art Academy is documented on October 21, 1861 .

In 1867 he married Pauline Constance Baronesse von Hoyningen-Huene (born September 16, 1848 Mähküll; † May 6, 1914 Munich), daughter of Karl Wilhelm von Hoyningen-Huene-Kelp and Pauline, née Countess von Rehbinder-Friedrichshof, in Reval in Munich's Georgenstrasse residential property. The marriage resulted in five children: The oldest, Bruno von Wahl , became a painter and drawing teacher. A boy died in infancy; the younger sister Pauline married the painter Robert Franz Curry (1872-1931) from Boston in 1895 , the sister Adele married his brother in 1899, the mathematician and physicist Charles Emerson Curry (1868-1935). The third sister, Helene, had been married to the general manager of Allianz insurance Gustav Knote since 1903 . From 1886 to 1888 Alexander von Wahl made several trips to Germany, as well as to Italy and Greece.

Sculptural work

As a sculptor, Alexander von Wahl created three-dimensional representations of individual animals and groups of animals, including horses, cattle and sheep, birds, tigers, lions and other wild animals, but also statuettes of individual figures and groups of figures, riders, farmers, beggars, Indians on horseback and much more . His preferred materials were unglazed soft porcelain (bisque porcelain) and so-called ivory mass (colored plaster), with which the sculptures, initially modeled in wax, could be easily reproduced. Some of them were also cast in bronze. In 1866 the Academy awarded him a silver medal for a statue of the blinded Polyphemus . Von Wahl showed his sculptural works on the occasion of numerous exhibitions, including 38 exhibits in the Munich annual exhibition in 1869, including a bronze statuette of Peter the Great in Sardam (Holland) and three exhibits each in 1879 and 1883. He was also represented at the Paris World Exhibition of 1878 . Much of his work was documented photographically and the photographs were offered for sale in special catalogs.

Picturesque work

A hand injury prompted von Wahl to retrain as a painter. On February 14, 1884, his re-entry into the Munich Art Academy is documented, where he trained with Alexander von Wagner and Wilhelm Diez . As a result, he created a number of portraits, but mainly ethnic equestrian scenes, mostly located in the Caucasus , which he again showed in the annual exhibitions in Munich.

literature

  • FI Bulgakov (ed.): Naši chudožniki. Volume 1, St Petersburg 1889, p. 68.
  • Personal and Atelier News - Died . In: Art and the beautiful home . F. Bruckmann, Munich 1903, p. 199 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Wilhelm Neumann (Hrsg.): Lexicon of Baltic artists. Riga, Jonck and Poliewsky, 1908, p. 165.
  • Wahl, Alexander von . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 35 : Libra-Wilhelmson . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1942.
  • Chudožniki narodov SSSR. Bibliografićeskij slovar. Moscow, II, 1972, p. #.
  • Kuno Hagen (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German-Baltic visual artists. Cologne, Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, 1983, p. #.
  • Erna von Harpe, Dieter von Wahl: Living in Livonia. The family of Wahl 1795-1993. Published on behalf of the Familienverband von Wahl eV, Anton H. Konrad Verlag, Weißenhorn 1995, p. # (Fig.).
  • Noble houses. Volume XXXII, Volume 148 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2010, pp. 438-439.
  • Wahl, Alexander von . In: Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE) . 2., revised. and extended edition. tape 10 : Thies-Zymalkowski . De Gruyter / KG Saur, Berlin / Boston / Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-096381-6 , p. 358 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ today Taevere 71510 Viljandi maakond, Estonia.
  2. ↑ today: Päinurme, 72502 Järva, Estonia.
  3. ↑ 01817 Alexander Wahl . In: Matriculation database of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich (ed.): Matriculation book . tape 2: 1841–1884 ( matrikel.adbk.de , daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ).
  4. ^ Catalog for the first international art exhibition in the royal glass palace in Munich. Munich 1869, p. 91, no. 131, p. 92: no. 152, p. 93-94, no. 189-223, p. 97, no. 328: owned by Baroness Moltke.
  5. ^ Catalog of the photographic art publishing house by G. Böttger, court photographer Sr. K. & K. Highness of the Crown Prince of the German Empire in Munich. H. Kutzner. Munich 1876, p. 19, No. 41 to 68: Sculptures by Alexander von Wahl ( gwdg.de PDF).
  6. ↑ 05005 Alexander v. Choice . In: Matriculation database of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich (ed.): Matriculation book . tape 2: 1841–1884 ( matrikel.adbk.de , daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ).
personal data
SURNAME Wahl, Alexander von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wahl-Assick, Alexander Ludwig Amandus von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baltic-German sculptor and painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Taifer (Taevere), Estonia
DATE OF DEATH December 2, 1903
Place of death Munich