Noack bronze picture foundry

The Noack bronze art foundry, founded in 1899, was the first bronze foundry in Leipzig . It is a fourth generation family business and to this day the contact point for many well-known artists from Germany and abroad.

history

The founder of the company was Traugott Noack (1865–1941) , who came from Bockwitz bei Lauchhammer . He had learned art foundry at the Lauchhammerwerk and worked as a caster and master in Dresden. In the company initially called "Leipziger Gießhütte für Bildguß", he worked together with the chaser Paul Brückner. Before that, there was no fine art foundry in Leipzig . Stone sculptures dominated the cityscape. All ore sculptures that had been set up in Leipzig since the middle of the 19th century came from corresponding factories in Nuremberg , Berlin , Dresden or Lauchhammer. The reputation of the foundry solidified from 1902 after Leipzig's leading sculptor Max Klinger began to award more orders to the foundry. Many of the bronze pictures, statues, decorations and memorial plaques that have been created in Leipzig since then come from the Noack bronze picture foundry.

The bronze picture foundry has been located in Leipziger Kochstrasse since 1920. The foundry survived inflation and the global economic crisis . Traugott's son Fritz Noack (1904–1981) got into the business and finally took over the foundry in 1931. But many of the portraits he created were melted down as part of the metal donation campaign of the German people for purposes of the Second World War . The workshop was closed due to the war and the owner was drafted into the military. Part of the production facilities was destroyed in the war.

After the end of the war, the company also took over the preservation of Leipzig's bronze sculptures, which suffered greatly from environmental pollution. Once a year they are repaired and given a layer of wax. In 1969 Fritz's son Gerhard Noack (1931–1999) finally took over the bronze art foundry. By being recognized as an “artist in the handicrafts”, he saved the company from nationalization and now made more frequent casts and medals. In 1992 Gerhard's son Bert Noack (born 1964) took over the business. He is both a master as a sculptor and as a chaser .

List of works of art (selection)

Goethe Monument on Naschmarkt, Leipzig, Germany
Bach monument in front of St. Thomas Church, Leipzig, Germany
Crypt slab by Johann Sebastian Bach in the Thomaskirche , Leipzig, Germany
Mephisto and Faust and the group of enchanted students at the entrance to Auerbachs Keller , Leipzig, Germany
Richard Wagner bust , Leipzig, Germany
Water carrier from the Mägdebrunnen at Roßplatz, Leipzig, Germany
Hansel and Gretel vom Märchenbrunnen , Leipzig, Germany
Sports figures in front of the former DHfK, Leipzig, Germany
Bronze panther in the zoo , Leipzig, Germany
" The Step of the Century " u. a. in front of the City History Museum, Leipzig, also Halle, Berlin, Germany
“Untimely Contemporaries” at the beginning of Grimmaische Strasse, Leipzig, Germany
Tabernacle, ambo and altar candlesticks in the Dominican Monastery of St. Albert , Leipzig, Germany
Albert Schweitzer Monument, Weimar, Germany