Carl Hans Bernewitz

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Bronze groups farmhand with horse and maid with bull by Carl Bernewitz on Ludgeriplatz in Münster

Carlhans Bernewitz even Karlhans Bernewitz , Latvian Karlis Bernevics , (born May 17, jul. / 29. May  1858 greg. In Blieden, Kurland , today Blīdene ; † 19 December 1934 in Kassel ) was a German- Baltic sculptor and Craftsman , his work can be assigned to historicism .

Life

Carl Bernewitz received his first training in Riga from the sculptor August Volz , a student of Albert Wolff . In 1880 he entered the Berlin Art Academy . As a student, assistant and finally from 1883 to 1886 as a master student, he was closely associated with Reinhold Begas . After a stay in Rome in 1887 he was called in by Begas to carry out his large-scale commissions such as the Neptune Fountain on Berlin's Schlossplatz or the Kaiser Wilhelm National Monument in front of the Eosander portal of the Berlin Palace . In addition to his work at Begas, which lasted until 1897, mainly bronzes were created in his own studio . Carl Bernewitz also worked as a craftsman and designed vases for the Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin . In 1903 he was appointed as a lecturer at the Kunsthochschule Kassel and received the title of professor there in 1908. He was awarded the Prussian Red Eagle Order IV class.

Works

This list of works is representative because there is no published catalog raisonné by Bernewitz. Given the spread of Bernewitz works in private ownership and museums, it is not possible to achieve completeness.

Salon bronze "Bookworm", signed by Carl Bernewitz
1883 Figure angry Achilles
1885 Tomb of Justizrat Prinker, Constantinople
Figure of Germania , Reichstag building , Berlin
1894-1897 bronze four-team of Bavaria on the southern corner pavilion of the Kaiser Wilhelm National Monument , Berlin (destroyed)
1897 Statue of Bishop Albert von Buxhoeveden on the south wall of Riga Cathedral , Riga . The original was lost at the beginning of the First World War . For the 800th anniversary of the city of Riga, a replica true to the original was erected on June 9, 2001. Icarus: in bronze, in the Riga Museum.
1898 Marble bust of the actress Marie Seebach , Dreifaltigkeitskirchhof II , Berlin
1905 Statue of the bookworm , Murhardsche Bibliothek , Kassel
Gable group at the academy building, Kassel
Fountain, town hall, Kassel
1912 Servant with horse and maid with bull , Ludgeriplatz , Münster
1917 Small salon bronzes: Bookworm, Schwälmerin 1917, tear, mourning, Icarus, roebuck
Fritzlar: War memorial
Kassel: Bookworm fountain and figures for the town hall destroyed.

signature

  • C. Bernewitz

Exhibitions

museum

literature

Web links

Commons : Carl Hans Bernewitz  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Exhibition catalog Düsseldorf 1902.
  2. ↑ Catalog of the Kunstverein Kassel, 1908.
personal data
SURNAME Bernewitz, Carl Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bernewitz, Carl; Bernewitz, Karl Hans (different spelling); Bernevics, Kārlis (Latvian form of name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Baltic sculptor, university professor in Kassel
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Blieden, Courland , today Blīdene
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1934
Place of death kassel