Carl Schlueter

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Carl Schlueter (born October 24, 1846 in Pinneberg , † October 26, 1884 in Dresden ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Carl Schlüter's grave in the Trinity Cemetery in Dresden

Carl Schlüter was born as the son of the doctor August Marcus Dietrich Schlüter in Pinneberg, Schleswig-Holstein . Since childhood he has shown an unusual talent for art and was effectively encouraged in his artistic endeavors by his father. He studied from 1865 to 1868 at the Art Academy in Dresden and was a student of Johannes Schilling . His first work was created in Schilling's studio in 1871, a larger than life statue of a German who trampled Roman weapons and legionary eagles with his foot . This work was honored in Dresden by the art academy with the small gold medal and in Vienna with the medal for the world exhibition .

Due to the falling income, the father applied to the Ministry of Education in Berlin for financial support, which was also honored. Awarded several times by the Academic Council in Dresden, Schlüter was granted a travel grant for a two-year stay in Italy by the Prussian Ministry in March 1873 . In the autumn of 1873 he traveled to Rome via Venice , Bologna and Florence , where he stayed until 1876. It was there that his main work, The Shepherd Boy , was created for Privy Councilor Hitzig in Berlin , which he initially executed in bronze and in 1878 in marble . This work was purchased by the Nationalgalerie Berlin .

From November 1876 he lived in Dresden again. In August 1880 he married the daughter of the music writer Emil Naumann , Agathe Naumann. Only the bust of his adolescent wife, one of the best portrait busts in modern German art, revealed the area in which the real talent is to be sought. This work is in the possession of the National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage, National Gallery and in the Kiel Art Gallery.

He maintained close contacts with Georg Treu . In addition to his work, he created a large number of portrait busts, portrait busts and reliefs, preferably of female models, as well as statuettes and figurative sculptures with antique motifs and genre motifs. He created colored and tinted sculptures. For the Royal Court Theater in Dresden he created twelve portrait medallions for the box parapets of the first rank. His works also include small bronze sculptures. Some of the sculptures are owned by the Dresden State Art Collections .

In October 1884 he fell ill with diphtheria and died on the 26th of the same month. He was buried in the Trinity cemetery in Dresden .

Works (selection)

  • 1869: Tomb with bronze medallion for the sculptor Joseph Herrmann, Old Catholic Cemetery Dresden
  • 1876: bronze figure shepherd boy, private collection
  • 1878: Marble figure shepherd boy, National Gallery Berlin, loss of war
  • 1878: twelve portrait medallions for the Royal Court Theater in Dresden
  • 1880: Portrait bust of Agathe Schlüter, wife of the artist, bronze, National Gallery Berlin and Kunsthalle zu Kiel

literature

  • Hermann Arthur Lier:  Schlueter, Karl HW In: General German Biography (ADB). Volume 31, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, p. 611 f.
  • Schlüter, Karl HW In: In: Hermann Alexander Müller : Biographisches Künstler-Lexikon. The most famous contemporaries in the field of fine arts of all countries with details of their works . Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 470. (digitized version )
  • Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer: Longing for Arcadia - Schleswig-Holstein artists in Italy. Heide 2009, ISBN 978-3-8042-1284-8 , pp. 287f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry birth register Christ Church Pinneberg.
  2. ^ Hermann Arthur Lier:  Schlueter, Karl HW In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 31, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, p. 611 f.
  3. ↑ Archive of the Dresden University of Fine Arts.
  4. ↑ Bernhard Maaz (ed.), National Gallery Berlin, Das XIX. Century, inventory catalog of the sculptures Volume 2, Berlin 2006, p. No. 1153
  5. ↑ bildindex.de .
personal data
SURNAME Schlueter, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schlueter, Karl; Schlueter, Carl HW
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Pinneberg
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 1884
Place of death Dresden