Bernhard Afinger
Ernst Moritz Arndt - statue in Bonn (2017)
Bernhard Afinger (born May 6, 1813 in Nuremberg , † December 25, 1882 in Berlin ) was a German sculptor of the 19th century .
Life
After training as a plumber and subsequent wandering as a journeyman, Bernhard Afinger met the sculptor Christian Daniel Rauch on the occasion of the Dürer Festival in 1840, who persuaded him to come to Berlin as his student. There he opened his own workshop in 1846. In 1873 there was a trip to Italy. In 1874 Bernhard Afinger became a member of the Senate of the Berlin Academy of Arts and a professor .
Works
- Berlin: Rudolf Virchow bust (1882) for the pathology department of the Charité
- Berlin: medallion of the ophthalmologist Albrecht von Graefe
- Bonn : Ernst-Moritz-Arndt -Standbild, (1864), unveiled on July 29, 1865 on the Alter Zoll , bronze casting made by the Georg Ferdinand Howaldt foundry , Braunschweig
- Bonn: marble bust of the psychiatrist Christian Friedrich Nasse (1856) in the old cemetery
- Bonn: bronze bust of the cathedral capitular Johann Baptist Baltzer (1876) in the old cemetery
- Bonn: Christ Fountain (1878) with the four evangelists , today on the Stiftsplatz
- Bonn: Medallion of the manufacturer Nis Clason (1863) in the old cemetery
- Bonn: Medallion for M. Henriette Clason (1862), the wife of Nis Clason, in the old cemetery
- Greifswald : Collaboration on Rubenow Monument , design of the four seated figures representing the four faculties are to represent
- Stettin : Ernst Moritz Arndt statue, in Quistorppark , cement cast copy of the Bonn monument
- Eisenach : Fritz Reuter bust (1875) for his grave monument
- Laasow (today a district of Vetschau ): Resurrection angel on the family grave of the Count's family of Pourtalès, in marble (1857)
- Wuppertal : marble bust for Wilhelm Werlé in the Barmer grounds (1881)
- Wuppertal: Grave monument for Johann Richard Seel , Reformed Cemetery Hochstrasse (Wuppertal)
- Żagań (Poland), statue of Dorothea von Sagan (Popiersie księżnej Doroty de Talleyrand - Perigord, Księcia Piotra von Biron, figury św. Doroty i św. Katarzyny - kościół pw. Krzyża św. W Żaganiu)
- Mohrin Church (Moryń, Poland), side altar with relief of the crucifixion group, signed
Web links
Commons : Bernhard Afinger - Collection of images, videos and audio files
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Afinger, Bernhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 6, 1813 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nuremberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 25, 1882 |
| Place of death | Berlin |