Carl Melville

Gustav-Adolf-Brunnen at the Predigerkirche in Erfurt, created by Carl Melville

Carl Georg Ludwig Melville (born October 29, 1875 in Mitau ; † February 18, 1957 in Sonneberg ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Carl Melville was born in 1875 as the son of the lawyer of the same name and his wife Sophie, b. Felsko, born in Mitau . Around 1894 he was studying natural sciences for four semesters at the Bergakademie Freiberg . There he was active in the uncovering association Vandalia, which was absorbed into the Corps Montania in 1919. From 1896 to 1897 and 1899 to 1901 he studied two and a half semesters at the University of Leipzig . From 1901 to 1903 he completed an apprenticeship as a sculptor in Berlin. He then studied two semesters at the art academy in Kassel with Carl Bernewitz until 1906 .

Melville taught from July 1, 1909 to June 30, 1934 at the Kunstgewerbeschule Erfurt . There he was head of the specialist class for sculptors and modellers. He taught modeling for master sculptors (working in wood, stone and ceramics) and studying nature based on a living model. On January 16, 1923 he was appointed professor. In 1934 he was retired due to a decree by the Minister of Economics and Labor. After his retirement, he moved to Sonneberg with his family. But he continued to work, for example with the artistic design of the Prussian government building in Erfurt, on Arnstädter Straße, which was built between 1937 and 1939. In 1957 Melville died in Sonneberg, Thuringia.

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Melville modeled figures and groups of figures, portrait busts, animal sculptures and monuments made of bronze and stone. He also made medals. Some of his works can be found in Erfurt's public space, as well as a war memorial in Frankenberg and grave monuments in Kassel , Quedlinburg and Mühlhausen / Thuringia . Other works are in the collections of the Erfurt Municipal Museum and the Fridericianum in Kassel.

Works (selection)

Richard Wroclaw Monument

four reclining figures on the Hohenzollern Bridge, Erfurt
Gustav-Adolf-Brunnen at the Predigerkirche , Erfurt
two figures in the city park of Erfurt
Richard Breslau Fountain Monument, Erfurt
Plastic above the main entrance of the Heinrich-Mann-Gymnasium Erfurt
Dancing Bear, Erfurt Municipal Museum
Bismarck medal

Web links

Commons : Carl Melville - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

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Ruth Menzel: Erfurt School of Applied Arts 1898–1944. Program and effect. (Exhibition catalog), Dacheröden gallery, Erfurt 1992.

Individual evidence

^ Jakob Julius Scharvogel: Art Nouveau ceramists. Edited by the Mathildenhöhe Institute, Darmstadt, Arnold, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-925369-52-X , p. 89.
^ ^A ^b ^c Kuno Hagen: Melville, Carl In: Lexicon of Baltic German visual artists. Verlag Wissenschaft u. Politics, Cologne 1983, ISBN 3-8046-0101-4 , accessed from Baltic Biographical Archive, p. 166.

personal data
SURNAME	Melville, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Melville, Carl Georg Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	October 29, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mitau
DATE OF DEATH	February 18, 1957
Place of death	Sonneberg

[1] Jakob Julius Scharvogel: Art Nouveau ceramists. Edited by the Mathildenhöhe Institute, Darmstadt, Arnold, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-925369-52-X , p. 89.

[lex-2] A ^b ^c Kuno Hagen: Melville, Carl In: Lexicon of Baltic German visual artists. Verlag Wissenschaft u. Politics, Cologne 1983, ISBN 3-8046-0101-4 , accessed from Baltic Biographical Archive, p. 166.