André Friedrich

André Friedrich (1860)

André Friedrich , also Andreas Friederich (born January 17, 1798 in Ribeauvillé , † March 9, 1877 in Strasbourg ) was an Alsatian draftsman , sculptor and lithographer .

Life

Friedrich was a student at the Art Academy in Dresden and came to the studio of Johann Gottfried Schadow in Berlin in 1819 at the age of 21 . Supported by this, he went to Paris in 1821 , where he became a student of François Joseph Bosio .

Supported by Bosio, Friedrich went to Rome for two years , where he became a pupil of Bertel Thorvaldsen in 1824 . In 1826 Friedrich settled in Strasbourg as a freelance artist . André Friedrich died there on March 9, 1877 at the age of 79.

Friedrich's sculptures were mostly very monumental and were mostly made of sandstone and granite.

Works (selection)

Monument to Johann Georg Daniel Arnold , Strasbourg

• Turennes monument in Sasbach
• Monumental figure of Archbishop Bernhard Boll in the Freiburg Minster
• Colossal statue of Bishop Werner von Habsburg in Strasbourg Cathedral
• Monument to Erwins von Steinbach in Steinbach (Baden-Baden)
• Statue of Sir Francis Drake in Offenburg
• Archbishop Martin von Dunin in the Poznań Cathedral
• The Leopold Monument in Achern , which is said to be the geographic center of Baden
• The figure of Christ on a granite boulder in the cemetery in Oberachern , today part of the war memorial
• The statue of the poet Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel for Colmar
• The monument of the builder of the tower pyramid of Strasbourg, Johannes Hältz
• The monument to the founder of the Strasbourg grammar school, Jakob Sturm von Sturmeck

literature

• General artist lexicon . Volume 45, 2005, pp. 143-144.
• Ludwig Spach:  Friedrich, Andreas . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1878, p. 64.

Web links

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