Anton Werres

Signature of Anton Werres

Signature of Anton Werres

Anton Jacob Werres (born January 1, 1830 in Cologne ; † April 27, 1900 there ) was a German sculptor .

Life

His father Carl Anton Werres (born September 4, 1785 in Cologne ; † September 30, 1836 there ) was a well-known doctor, ophthalmologist, physician and non-fiction author. Anton Werres did an apprenticeship with the Cologne sculptor Peter Joseph Imhoff and worked for Christian Mohr 's company. From 1851 to 1857 he studied at the Royal Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin. He was a master student with Gustav Blaeser . From 1858 to 1867 study visit to Rome . Since 1868 mainly active in Cologne, where he created six pillar figures in the nave of Cologne Cathedral . Numerous monuments and tombs in the Melaten cemetery also remind of his work.

Works

• 1863: Marble statue Venus and Cupid in the Flora (originally in the Palm House, today in the Kalthaus)
• 1864: marble statue Flora in der Flora (originally erected in the Flora Temple, which was demolished after the Second World War, now lost)
• 1868: Sculpture Saint Maternus of Cologne on Cologne Cathedral (nave north side pillar D8)
• 1868: Sculpture Saint Helena at Cologne Cathedral (nave north side, pillar D7)
• 1868: Sculpture Gereon of Cologne at Cologne Cathedral (nave, south side, pillar C7)
• 1868: Sculpture Boniface at Cologne Cathedral (nave, south side, pillar C5)
• 1868: Sculpture Holy Anno of Cologne on Cologne Cathedral (nave, south side, pillar C4)
• 1868: Sculpture Martin von Tours at Cologne Cathedral (nave, south side, pillar C6)
• 1870: Sculptures of Saints Helena and Viktor von Xanten on the south portal of Xanten Cathedral
• 1879 bust monument of Franz Weber on the Melaten cemetery in Cologne
• 1880: Portrait medallion on the obelisk by Heinrich Bürgers , in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne
• 1885: Tomb of Cologne's Lord Mayor Hermann Heinrich Becker in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne
• 1886: Ferdinand Hiller's bust monument in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne
• 1886: Bust monument by Caspar Garthe in the Cologne Zoological Garden
• 1892: bust monument by Johann Wilhelm Kaesen in the Volksgarten , Cologne
• 1896: Statue of Ferdinand Franz Wallraf and Johann Heinrich Richartz in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne

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  Venus and Cupid in the flora

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  Bust of Franz Weber in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne

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  Bronze relief by Hermann Heinrich Becker on the Melaten cemetery in Cologne

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  Bust monument by Ferdinand Hiller on the Melaten cemetery in Cologne

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  Bust monument by Caspar Garthe in Cologne Zoo

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  Bust monument by Johann Wilhelm Kaesen in the Volksgarten, Cologne

literature

• Iris Benner: Cologne monuments 1871 - 1918 aspects of bourgeois culture between art and politics . 1st edition. Publication by the Cologne City Museum, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-927396-92-3 , p. 319 .
• Johann Jakob Merlo: Cologne artists in old and new times . Schwann, Düsseldorf 1895, p. 933-934 .
• Peter Bloch: Sculptures of the 19th century in the Rhineland . 1st edition. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1975, ISBN 3-590-30231-3 , pp. 42 .
• Werres, Anton . 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, p. 422 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Image index of art and culture: Anton Werres , accessed on February 10, 2014.
2. ^ Eduard Trier and Willy Weyres : 19th century art in the Rhineland: plastic . Schwann 1979, ISBN 3-590-30254-2 , p. 58
3. ↑ Stephan Anhalt, Gerd Bembach (ed.): The Cologne Flora, Festhaus and Botanical Garden, p. 189
4. ↑ Stephan Anhalt, Gerd Bembach (ed.): Die Kölner Flora, Festhaus and Botanischer Garten, p. 57
5. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} Image index of art and culture: Anton Werres , accessed on February 10, 2014
6. ↑ Holger Schmenk: Xanten in the 19th century - A Rhenish city between tradition and modernity . 1st edition. Böhlau, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-20151-7 , pp. 146 .
7. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Iris Benner: Cologne monuments 1871-1918 aspects of bourgeois culture between art and politics . 1st edition. Publication by the Cologne City Museum, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-927396-92-3 , p. 303-316 .

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