Christian Genschow
Christian Friedrich Genschow (born September 18, 1814 in Rostock , † November 1, 1891 in Groß-Lichterfelde near Berlin) was a German sculptor .
Life
Christian Friedrich Genschow was born as the fourth of 13 children to the worker Franz Jakob Genschow and his wife. His brother Georg Genschow (1828–1902) studied landscape painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy .
At the age of eleven, Christian Genschow suffered a severe disability of his left leg from being severely scalded with liquid wax. He had to break off an apprenticeship as a carpenter due to excessive physical strain. In 1834 Grand Duke Friedrich Franz I approved a grant of 60 thalers for drawing training with Friedrich Hehse in Rostock. After doubling the scholarship, Genschow was able to study sculpture at the Berlin Art Academy with Ludwig Wichmann from 1836 to 1840 and with Christian Daniel Rauch in 1840/42 . At Rauch he worked as an assistant until 1850, among other things together with Carl Wolgast on the models for the equestrian statue of Frederick the Great in Berlin. After completing this extensive work, Genschow founded his own studio in Berlin-Kreuzberg . Between 1838 and 1881 he exhibited at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition .
In the years 1852 to 1857, at the intercession of the director of the grand ducal collections Schwerin Lisch , Genschow received several orders for the construction of the palace in Schwerin with his main work, the equestrian statue of the Obotrite prince Niklot . From 1857 to around 1866 Genschow also worked as an artistic assistant for the Dankberg Institute for Architectural Ornamentation . Until 1876 further orders followed for Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II , who in 1870 awarded him the Gold Cross of Merit of the House Order of the Wendish Crown on the occasion of the inauguration of the new main university building in Rostock . The worsening of his foot condition led to his foot being amputated in 1874.
Christian Genschow was married to Johanne Wilhelmine Ernestine Bohl (1822-1891) since 1842. The couple had no children.
Genschow worked as a sculptor until 1885, at last he was mentioned in the Berlin address books as " Rentier " until his death . The grave in the old Luisenstadt cemetery is no longer preserved.
Services
Genschow's biography reveals a certain tragedy. Not least because of his handicap, he never managed to break away from the favor and orders of the Mecklenburg Grand Dukes. His predominantly small-format works are in the tradition of the Berlin School of Sculpture , especially that of his teacher Christian Daniel Rauch. Stylistically independent works that break away from the traditional are in vain in Genschow's oeuvre. Its artistic significance therefore remains essentially regionally limited to Mecklenburg.
Works
Person motive |
image | Location whereabouts |
Kind of material |
Dating | Further information |
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Friedrich Franz I. | Schwerin missing |
Amber relief |
1834 | Gift to the Grand Duke | |
Sewing box | Schwerin missing |
Small sculpture amber |
1834 | Gift to the Grand Duchess | |
Alexandrine |
Hohenzollern Museum Berlin missing |
Relief plaster |
1834 | Example in marble 1856 (the dating 1834 is probably based on a reading error and should be more correctly 1854) | |
Friedrich Franz I. | unknown | Bust plaster |
1835/36 | ||
Samuel Gottlieb Vogel | unknown | Relief plaster |
1836 | ||
Paul Friedrich | lost | Bust marble |
1839/42 | ||
Horsemen fighting the bull | Schwerin, State. museum | Bronze statuette |
1846 | Academy exhibition Berlin 1846, 1850, 1856 | |
Johann Gottfried Schadow | unknown | Bronze statuette |
1850 | ||
"The 4 elements": water , fire , earth , air in children's figures | Schwerin, State. museum | Bronze statuettes |
1850 | 21/22 cm; also in Charlottenburg Palace (lost); a set 2013 in Frankfurt / M. auctioned | |
John as a boy with a lamb | Schwerin, State. museum | Bronze statuette |
1850? | unsigned and undated | |
Crown Prince Wilhelm in a mask suit | unknown | Statuette plaster (bronze?) |
1850/77 | ||
8 relief portraits of the palace building commission | Schwerin, castle | Terracotta relief |
1851 | Court Marshal Jaspar Friedrich von Bülow , Minister Ludwig von Lützow , Lieutenant General Adolf von Sell , Castle Captain Carl von Lützow , Go. Archivist Lisch , Oberbaurat Stüler , glass painter Gillmeister , master builder Stern (8 more portraits: master builder Behnke, court builder Demmler , court builder H. Willebrand , building manager Ludwig Willebrand are modeled by Heinrich Kalnas von Kalnassi ) |
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Johann Albrecht I. | Schwerin, castle | Portrait head sandstone |
1852 | ||
Anna Sophie of Mecklenburg | Schwerin, castle | Portrait head sandstone |
1852 | ||
Friedrich Franz II. | Schwerin, castle | Portrait head sandstone |
1852 | ||
Auguste of Mecklenburg | Schwerin, castle | Portrait head sandstone |
1852 | ||
Old meckl. Coat of arms , Neues meckl. Coat of arms , Prussian coat of arms , Reuss's coat of arms | Schwerin, castle | Terracotta reliefs |
~ 1852 | ||
Matthew , Moses , Paul and Isaiah | Röbel, St. Marien | Statuettes oak |
~ 1853 | as pulpit figures | |
Friedrich Wilhelm of Mecklenburg | Schwerin, castle | Portrait head sandstone |
1854 | ||
Carl Leopold of Mecklenburg | Schwerin, castle | Portrait head sandstone |
1854 | ||
Christian Ludwig II of Mecklenburg | Schwerin, castle | Portrait head sandstone |
1854 | ||
Friedrich Franz II. | lost | Bust marble |
1854/69 | Detectable 2 × in marble and 4 × in plaster (2 specimens in plaster preserved in Ludwigslust Palace) | |
Auguste of Mecklenburg | Berlin, National Gallery | Bust plaster |
1854/61 | 1 × in marble and 4 × in plaster of paris (2 specimens in plaster of paris in Ludwigslust Palace, there the head of a marble bust) | |
Prince Friedrich Franz | lost | Bust plaster |
1855 | at the age of four, at the age of eleven see 1862 | |
Prince Paul Friedrich | lost | Bust plaster |
1855 | at the age of three, at the age of nine see 1862 | |
Obotrite prince Niklot | Schwerin, castle | Equestrian statue plaster |
1855 | Genschow's main work | |
7 pairs of boys with coats of arms | Schwerin, castle | Statuettes zinc |
1855 | a total of 14 individual representations, e.g. Part of Princes Friedrich Franz and Paul Friedrich | |
Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch | Schwerin, State. museum | Bust plaster |
1855 | Formerly on loan from the State Main Archive in Schwerin, now back in the museum | |
2 halberdiers | Schwerin, castle | Sandstone statues |
1855 | on the gable above the Niklothalle | |
Albrecht II. | Schwerin Castle | Sandstone statue |
1856 | as a small figure formerly in the dining room of the palace, which burned out in 1913 | |
Magnus II. | Schwerin Castle | Sandstone statue |
1856 | as a small figure formerly in the dining room of the palace, which burned out in 1913 | |
Wilhelm of Mecklenburg | unknown | Relief plaster |
1856 | Academy exhibition Berlin | |
Grand Duchess Alexandrine | unknown | Relief plaster |
1856 | Academy exhibition Berlin | |
Grenadier and artilleryman | unknown | Statuettes plaster |
1856 | Unrealized drafts for still images ( Georg Wiese received the order ) | |
Allegories of trade , agriculture , horse breeding and fishing | Schwerin Castle, throne room | Statuettes plaster |
1857 | further allegories by Gustav Willgohs and Georg Wiese | |
Allegory of water | Schwerin, State. museum | Statuette marble |
1858 | Life-size, based on a model from 1850, also known as a fountain figure in cast zinc and bronzed zinc electroplating | |
The risen Christ | unknown | Relief marble |
1858 | Academy exhibition 1858 | |
Umbrella children | Lübz, city park | Zinc fountain figure |
1860/63 | Dating unclear, another specimen was in the 1960s on private property in Parchim (lost) | |
Friedrich Schiller | unknown | Bust plaster |
1860 | modeled after the death mask; duplicated | |
Friedrich Wilhelm III. | unknown | Equestrian statuette plaster |
1860 | as a memorial draft for Berlin | |
Friedrich Wilhelm IV. | Schwerin, State. museum | Bust marble |
~ 1861 | executed after a model by Christian Daniel Rauch | |
Prince Friedrich Franz (III.) | Schwerin, State. museum | Bust marble |
1862/64 | Friedrich Franz at the age of 11; at least 4 plaster casts verifiable (1 × preserved in Ludwigslust Palace) | |
Prince Paul Friedrich Franz | Ludwigslust, castle | Bust marble |
1862/64 | Paul Friedrich Franz at the age of 9; at least 4 plaster casts verifiable (3 × preserved in Ludwigslust Palace) | |
Princess Marie | Ludwigslust, castle | Bust marble |
1862/64 | Marie at the age of 8, at least 4 plaster casts verifiable (3 × preserved in Ludwigslust Palace, 1 × Museum Schwerin) | |
Prince Johann Albrecht | Schwerin, State. museum | Bust marble |
1862/64 | Johann Albrecht at the age of 4, at least 4 casts in plaster can be proven (2 × preserved in Ludwigslust Palace) | |
Elector Friedrich II. | Berlin, Unter den Linden destroyed |
Plaster of paris statue |
1866 | as part of the festive decorations for the victory celebration in 1866 | |
Obotrite taming his horse | Schwerin, castle bridge | Zinc equestrian statue |
1864/74 | Also known as reductions in zinc, the size of the auxiliary model in the driveway to Basthorst Castle | |
Obotrite preparing his horse | Schwerin, castle bridge | Zinc equestrian statue |
1873/76 | Also known as reductions in zinc, the size of the auxiliary model in the driveway to Basthorst Castle | |
Allegory of winter | unknown | Statuette plaster? |
~ 1880 | Great Berlin art exhibition 1881 | |
Friedrich Franz II. |
Babelsberg destroyed |
Bust bronze |
1882 | for the Feldherrenbank ; Busts melted down in WWII |
literature
- Stüler, Willebrand, Prosch: The Schwerin Castle. Berlin 1869.
- W. Raabe, G. Quade: Mecklenburgische Vaterlandskunde. Volume 1, Wismar 1894.
- Genschow, Christian F. In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 13 : Gaab-Gibus . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1920, p. 398 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Helmut Börsch-Supan: The catalogs of the Berlin academy exhibitions 1786-1850. Volume 1–3, Berlin 1971.
- Wolfgang Vomm: Equestrian statues of the 19th and early 20th centuries in Germany. Dissertation University of Cologne 1979, Bergisch Gladbach 1979, p.
- Peter Bloch , Sibylle Einholz , Jutta von Simson (eds.): Ethos & Pathos. The Berlin School of Sculpture 1786–1914. Contributions to the exhibition. Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-7861-1598-2 , p.
- Christian Genschow . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 51, Saur, Munich a. a. 2006, ISBN 3-598-22791-4 , p. 369.
- Bernd Schattinger: Christian Genschow (1814-1891). Research into the life and work of a Mecklenburg sculptor. Schwerin 2015, ISBN 978-3-86062-037-3 .
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personal data | |
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SURNAME | Genschow, Christian |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Genschow, Christian Friedrich (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 18, 1814 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Rostock |
DATE OF DEATH | November 1, 1891 |
Place of death | Groß-Lichterfelde near Berlin |