Bernhard Heising

Bernhard Heising (born August 23, 1865 in Wiedenbrück , † December 29, 1903 in Berlin ) was a German sculptor.

Life

Praying farmer

Bernhard Heising, sculptor, was born in Wiedenbrück (Westphalia) as the second son of the married couple Wilhelm Heising (blue dye) and Elisabeth Schwarzer. After attending elementary school, at the age of fourteen he learned to sculpt with local artists such as Christoph Siebe (1849–1912) and Anton Mormann (1851–1940). From 1884 to 1886 he worked in Münster for the artist Heinrich Fleige (1840–1890). From there Heising went to Berlin before he went to Freising as a working student in 1887 . From autumn 1889 he attended the Munich Art Academy . Wilhelm von Rümann (1850–1906) became his preferred teacher. As a non-Bavarian, he was denied any scholarships, despite the best reports, so he went to Berlin in the fall of 1891. He received special support from Gerhard Janensch (1860–1933) and Anton von Werner (1843–1915), the director of the Academic College for Fine Arts , or “ Bauakademie ” for short (a department of the Royal Academy of Arts , founded in 1696) . In the spring of 1896 he won the competition for the academy's bicentenary with his large sculpture Homecoming of the Prodigal Son . In autumn he traveled to Italy with the prize money (3,300 gold marks) for almost a year, stayed in Florence, Rome, Naples and Sicily and, after returning to Berlin in August 1897, founded his workshop in Wilmersdorf . In addition to creating his own works, he also worked for Reinhold Begas (1831–1911), who valued his art very much. Therefore, he entrusted his mastery in personal representation of individual tasks at the Bismarck monument and at Siegesallee , just as he asked Heising's good friend August Gaul (tamed tiger) and Ludwig Cauer (fountain groups) for their helping hand. Despite differing views on art, he always remained on friendly terms with Bernhard Heising.

In spring 1898 Heising brought a female bronze head, "Roma", to the Great Berlin Exhibition. He immediately joined the Berlin Secession , founded on May 2, 1898, and contributed his own works to their exhibitions, "Pilot" (1902), "Wächter" (1903). In 1902, he created the larger than life bronze statue of its founder, Baron Burghard von Schorlemer-Alst , for the Westphalian Farmers' Association , which was erected in front of the State House in Münster, but was lost in World War II. (The plaster model for the tender with over 20 applicants is on loan from the Wiedenbrücker Schule Museum .)

For his hometown Wiedenbrück, today Rheda-Wiedenbrück , on behalf of the former district administrator Ernst Osterrath (1851-1925), he was able to create the bronze statue "Praying Worker", also called "Praying Farmer" (see Rheda-Wiedenbrück 4.7: Sculptures, sights ), still to be completed despite a serious lung disease, but had to stay away from the unveiling ceremony on the Wiedenbrücker Marktplatz on November 1, 1903 and died on December 29, 1903 in the Hedwig Hospital in Berlin-Friedenau.

He was buried on January 1, 1904 in the cemetery of St. Matthias Parish, Röblingstrasse 32. Bernhard Heising left behind his wife Helene, née Sittler (1866–1941), and two artistically gifted sons, Wilhelm (1897–1980) and Fritz (1899–1918). Fritz died shortly before the end of the war on September 30, 1918 near Cambrai in France.

Work catalog

During the devastating bomb attack on Münster in Westphalia on October 3, 1944, the house of his brother Johannes Heising at Georgstrasse 6 was completely destroyed. Documents, certificates, records, drafts and sketches went up in flames, and the large model of the “Schorlemer” could not be saved either. Plaster models that were previously brought to safety by his son Wilhelm are listed below. Most of them are on loan together with bronze casts in the Wiedenbrücker Schule Museum .

1. Large bronzes

• 1896 Return of the Prodigal Son (bronze), Museum Albertinum Dresden (shown at the Paris World Exhibition in 1900, melted down during World War I).
• 1902 Dr. Burghard Freiherr von Schorlemer-Alst (bronze), monument in Münster, donated by the Westphalian Farmers' Association (melted down in World War II).
• 1903 Praying Worker (bronze), monument on the market square of Wiedenbrück, donated by District Administrator Ernst Osterrath.

2. Plastics

• n.d. Female nude , plaster original
• 1896 Ceres allegory , plaster original
• 1897 Bust of a boy, "Florentine" , plaster original
• 1898 "Roma", female bust , bronze original (Great Berlin Exhibition)
• 1902 Pilot (bronze), bronze original (Berlin Secession) - lost
• 1902 Max, baby head , clay / bronze casting
• 1903 Guardian , bronze original (Berlin Secession)
• 1903 Group crouching woman , plaster original

3. Reliefs

• 1888 Bernard Schwarzer , plaster original
• 1896 Pontifex maximus , plaster original
• 1898 anniversary medal, bronze original
• 1898 baptism medal, bronze original
• 1903 Portrait of a woman's head , original plaster of paris

4. Models

of applications for the tenders.

• 1. o. J. B. v. Schorlemer-Alst , plaster original
• 2. 1903 Praying Worker , plaster original
• 3. 1903 Praying Worker , large model for the bronze casting, plaster original

5. Stone work

• c.1880 Agathe still image , Kath. Parish Church of St Giles to Wiedenbrück.

6. Works in wood

• 1897 Madonna and Child 1897, linden tree.
• Untitled crucifix , decorated beam ends, oak.

7. Drawings

• 1886 boy with hat , coal.
• 1903 self-portrait , charcoal.
• undated. Mother of the artist , pencil sketch.

8. Lost, only mentioned in literature

• 1895 hunting group
• no J. Fischer

9. Manuscript

In five issues:

• Style history of architecture and ornament , Berlin 1898 (draft of a habilitation thesis, since Heising had the prospect of a professorship.)

Awards

At the Paris World Exhibition in 1900 , Heising was awarded the Great Silver Medal . In 1901 the Dresden art exhibition awarded him the golden plaque .

Literature and Sources

• Franz Flaskamp : Bernhard Heising (1865–1903), A German Artist's Life , Münster i. Westf. 1932, Regenbergsche Buchdruckerei.
• Yearbook of Fine Arts 1902, published by Max Martersteig, Verlag der Deutschen Jahrbuchgesellschaft MBH
  Berlin SW 48 - 1902, p. 19: large illustration of the "Homecoming of the Prodigal Son", bronze
• Catalog. Berlin Great Art Exhibition 1897 - (Fig. "Return of the Prodigal Son")
• Catalog, Dresden International Art Exhibition 1901 - (Fig. "Return of the Prodigal Son")
• République Francaise, Ministère du commerce, de l 'industrie, des postes et de Télègraphes, Exposition Universelle de 1900 à Paris,
  List des Récompenses [Ger. List of awards] (Groupe II.) Classe 9. (p. 129), Paris, Imprimerie Nationale MCMI
• Journal, Art for All, XI 1896
• Journal, Münsterland, VIII 1921, p. 194 f.

Web links

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