Carl Esser (sculptor)

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Carl Esser ( Karl ; * 1861 in Aachen ; † 1929 there ) was an Aachen sculptor of historicism . From 1891 to 1909 he ran a joint sculpture workshop with Wilhelm Pohl . Their company name was: "Company Pohl and Esser, sculptor's studio for Christian art, owners Wilhelm Pohl and Carl Esser."

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Carl Esser graduated from the "Commercial Drawing School" founded by Wilhelm Albermann in Cologne in 1871 and was a student of the modeling master class. From 1880 he worked in Wilhelm Pohl's workshop in Aachen and from 1891 became a business partner. After the death of Wilhelm Pohl in 1909, Esser set up his own studio on Adalbertsteinweg 199 under the name “Sculptor's Studio for German Art - Sculpture and Cemetery Art” .

Esser's sculptures mark the first creative period. Works from the Middle Ages, Gothic and Renaissance were used as models by the two sculptors. The artistic interpretation of their works was determined by the restoration measures of the Cologne and Aachen cathedral as well as the Aachen town hall . In the latter, they were involved with 12 sculptures for the town hall facade. The second phase consisted of modern tombs without statues. The individual sculptures were based on Bertel Thorvaldsen's figure of Christ from 1821 in the Frauenkirche in Copenhagen . The mourning of Carl Esser formed the third phase. Carl Esser received the Greek classic. His own stylistic device was a simple reduction of the formal language.

In grave jewelry catalog from 1919 the Kunstanstalt the Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik in Geislingen (WMF) was his resurrection as a grave Relief Nr. 10309 listed. One of his profane works was the seascape with water birds, crustaceans and fish . Esser created this three meter high relief in Art Nouveau style based on a sketch by Ernst Moritz Geyger . It was electroplated at WMF in 1907 .

Works

Carl Esser

  • 1919 Christ corpus nailed to four with a crown of thorns and a gaze directed to heaven. This work was carried out as electroplating .
  • 1919 Resurrection relief electroplating
  • 1919 Christ corpus medallion with crown of thorns electroformed
  • 1919 Grave monument of a mourner with a palm branch standing in front of the base of a cross with a medallion on the head of Christ. Electroplating
  • 1919 seven corps of Christ , three nailing, crown of thorns galvanoplasty

East cemetery in Aachen

  • 1909 Monumental tombstone with relief. This shows a glimpse into a workshop where a designer is at work, the Hemmer family (machine factory).
  • 1913 mourners, Hans Hammers (born 1913 Aachen, court trainee in Emmendingen).
  • 1916 grave construction. Architecture with a sculpture of the Virgin Mary, family Joseph Hubert Lingens (needle manufacturer).
  • 1919 three-part grave complex with the crucified (four nails, pedestal), two relief portraits of the deceased (ann .: made in the foundry), Jacob Küchen family (metal foundry).
  • 1929 Hochkreuz on a pedestal, Professor Peter Polis (head of the Aachen Meteorological Observatory on Wingertsberg , founded by his father in 1900 for weather observation and scientific research).

Hot mountain cemetery in Burtscheid

  • 1916 three-part tomb with Art Nouveau stele. Cross relief made of black granite and limestone enclosure. Gerhard Sauren family.
  • 1917 three-part tomb (low stele with segmented arch, polished black granite), Rudolf Arndt family.

Wilhelm Pohl and Carl Esser

Monument on the site of the former Kalvarienberg church by W. Pohl and C. Esser, 1893.
Monument to Emperor Heinrich II at the Adalbertskirche by W. Pohl and C. Esser
  • 1881 Charlemagne and Kaiser Wilhelm , monumental sculptures, main post office, Aachen
  • 1883 (?) Alkuin , Einhard , Benedikt von Aniane , Wilibald von Stablo under coupled canopies on the two struts of the arcade on the outer front of the rear of the Aachen town hall
  • 1893 Calvary in front of St. Jakob in Aachen. The Aachen city archive is keeping a photograph of the model . Relief: miracle of St. Elisabeth
  • 1899 Heinrich II. Design, 1900 execution with lance and St. Adalbert's church model, statue on the Aachen north city hall facade on the upper floor vd 3rd pair of pillars on the right. figure
  • 1900 Charles IV design, 1901 execution, basement, 2nd pair of pillars, left corner. statue
  • 1900 Sigismund draft, 1901 executed, third pair of pillars, right statue
  • 1900 Maximilian I design, 1901 execution, basement, second pair of pillars, right statue
  • 1900 Charles V design, 1901 executed, third pair of pillars, left statue
  • around 1900 several sculptures in Campo Santo on Aachen's Westfriedhof
  • 1899/1900 five statues of kings, facade of the Aachen town hall according to own designs (see above); seven based on the models by Christian Mohr , sculptor in Cologne. ( Konrad II. , Heinrich III. , Friedrich der Schöne , Maximilian II. , Matthias , Joseph I. , Karl VI. ).
  • 1903 Monumental seated figure of Heinrich II. , The founder of the church of St. Adalbert in Aachen , with a view of the small Adalbertstrasse and the Adalbertsberg.

East cemetery in Aachen

  • 1899 three-part grave complex with Christ sculpture by Thorvaldsen, Felix Ney family ( soap manufacturer ).
  • 1900 high cross on a base, tomb made of red granite, family Johann Joseph Steffens.
  • 1900–1902 Relief slab of the grave complex of Ernest Victor Hubert Berger sive Schippers. The stone carvings are by Johannes Baecker based on a design by city architect Joseph Laurent (1853–1923).

Hot mountain cemetery in Burtscheid

  • 1899 three-part aedicula tomb, family medical councilor Dr. Carl Hommelsheim.
  • 1902 three-part tomb, cross with bronze body (polished black granite, bluestone with black granite as enclosure), Heinrich Neuhausen family.
  • 1904 three-part aedicule tomb with a seated mourning angel, Johann Oscar Erckens.
  • 1907 Cross with bronze body on a high base (polished black granite, limestone enclosure), Mathilde Fuss, Maria Vornachten, Michael and Adele Kermes.

literature

  • Ingeborg Schild , Elisabeth Janssen: The Aachen East Cemetery. Mayersche Buchhandlung , Aachen, 1991.
  • The City Director of Aachen. Building Department: Documentation on the Heissberg Cemetery. Reprotechnik Gerd Gering, Aachen.
  • Karl Faymonville , u. a .: The art monuments of the city of Aachen. III. The secular monuments and collections of the city of Aachen. Schwann, Düsseldorf, 1924.
  • 19th century art in the Rhineland ed. Eduard Trier and Willi Weyres. 5 volumes. Volume 4 plastic. Schwann, Düsseldorf, 1980, pp. 98f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In Saur: "Master student of Joseph Albermann"
  2. ↑ in the grave jewelry catalog of the Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik "Grabschmuck. WMF. Württemberg metal goods factory. Geislingen = St. 1919. - Detailed sample books on grave decorations, lighting figures, fountain and garden figures, etc. free of charge and postage free. Grave decorations, Christ's bodies, tablets, letters, wreaths, palm branches, urns, etc. “Printed in our own printing shop with colors from Kart & Ebinger, GmbH, in Stuttgart. (WMF), p. 97, no.10227
  3. ↑ dsslb. P. 154, No. 10309.
  4. ↑ WMF, p. 116, No. 10301.
  5. ↑ WMF, p. 41, No. 918.
  6. ↑ ibid., Various postures, etc. Loincloths. P. 98, No. 823; 102, No. 10133; 103, No. 652; 105, No. 788; 106, No. 862; 108, No. 794; 110, no.789.
  7. ^ Karl Faymonville: The art monuments of the city of Aachen. III. Schwan, Düsseldorf, 1924, p. 748.
personal data
SURNAME Esser, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Esser, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH 1929
Place of death Aachen