August Julius Streichenberg

Portrait of August Julius Streichenberg, drawn by Carl Gottlieb Merkel (1817–1897), Rome around 1835

August Julius Streichenberg (born February 5, 1814 in Angermünde , † January 10, 1878 in Berlin ) was a German sculptor and university professor .

life and work

August Julius Streichenberg was a son of the master tailor Carl Streichenberg. He learned from the sculptor David D'Angers in Paris. After stays in Saint Petersburg , Rome and Greece , he settled in Berlin and worked as an employee of Christian Daniel Rauch . As a professor of sculpture, he then worked as a teacher at the Berlin Art Academy .

His sepulkral main work is the grave monument for Ferdinand Streichenberg-Scharmer (1838-1856) in the old St. Matthew's churchyard in Berlin-Schöneberg. This valuable marble tomb was signed by Streichenberg in 1858. In 1842, Streichenberg created the portrait of his daughter Olga in Carrara (in 2003 in the art trade in Munich). 1848–1849 a war memorial decorated with the figure of a “Borussia” was erected on the Hagelberg near Belzig in memory of the battle of August 27, 1813 on behalf of a veterans' association and the Prussian king. For this work Streichenberg received the Great Gold Medal for Art from King Friedrich Wilhelm IV in July 1850 . The main sculptural work is likely to have been the group "Hagar and Ismael", which was bought by King Friedrich Wilhelm IV in the garden of Lindstedt Palace near Potsdam-Sanssouci since 1860 at the latest .

Grave of August Julius Streichenberg in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Berlin

August Julius Streichenberg was buried on January 14th, 1878 in the old St.-Matthäus-Kirchhof in Schöneberg near Berlin, department H-OE-014/015 (today without naming because of the restored rear wall). One of his students was Ernst Gottfried Vivié .

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  Antinous with snake (1852), figure in the semicircle at the New Palace in Potsdam

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  Ferdinand Streichenberg-Scharmer tomb

literature

• Streichenberg, August Julius . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 32 : Stephens – Theodotos . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1938, p. 178 .
• Peter Bloch , Sibylle Einholz , Jutta von Simson (eds.): Ethos and Pathos. The Berlin School of Sculpture 1786–1914. Exhibition catalog, Berlin 1990. Volume II (short biographies, edited by Brigitte Hüfler and Sibylle Einholz).
• Saskia Hüneke u. a. (Arrangement): Buildings and sculptures in Sanssouci Park. (official guide) Potsdam-Sanssouci 2000.
• Dieter Hübener, Kristina Hübener, Julius H. Schoeps (eds.): War memorials in Brandenburg from the liberation war of 1813/14 to the present. Berlin 2003.
• Judith Winkler, Iris Berndt, Jörg Kuhn u. a. (Ed.): Albert Manthe as a person and artist. Exhibition catalog, Ehm Welk- und Heimatmuseum Angermünde, Angermünde 2007.
• Power and friendship. Berlin-St. Petersburg 1800-1860. Exhibition catalog, Leipzig 2008, p. 278.
• Katrin Lesser, Jörg Kuhn, Detlev Pietzsch (arrangement): Garden monuments in Berlin, cemeteries (= contributions to the preservation of monuments in Berlin. Volume 27.) Michael Imhof, Petersberg 2008, p. 313.

Web links

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