Conrad Nicolaus Boy

Conrad Nicolaus Boy (born October 9, 1753 in Lübeck , † April 16, 1793 in Berlin ) was a German sculptor.

Hercules fighting the Nemean lion, Köllnischer Park

Life

Conrad Nicolaus Boy learned from his father, a wood and stone sculptor in Lübeck, and then went to Berlin. There he worked for several years in the court sculptor's workshop, from 1775 under Antoine Tassaert , where he became friends with Johann Gottfried Schadow . After termination of this employment relationship, he created several statues for public buildings. For the exhibitions of the Akademie der Künste from 1786 to 1793 he provided several busts of Frederick the Great and Friedlich Wilhelm II in marble and mythological groups in plaster. His most important work is the Hercules in battle with the Nemean lion, sketched by Schadow in 1787 and executed by him in 1791, for the Hercules Bridge built by Carl Gotthard Langhans in 1787/88 . When the bridge was demolished in 1890, the sculpture was moved to the new Hercules Bridge on Lützowplatz. It has been in the Köllnischer Park since 1971. Boy was a member of the Prussian Academy of Arts from 1791 to 1793 . In 1792 he was entrusted with the execution of the large bas-relief at the Brandenburg Gate together with Christian Unger .

literature

Kathrin Chod, Herbert Schwenk, Hainer Weisspflug: Hercules fighting the Nemean lion (sculpture) . In: Hans-Jürgen Mende , Kurt Wernicke (ed.): Berliner Bezirkslexikon, Mitte . Luisenstadt educational association . Haude and Spener / Edition Luisenstadt, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89542-111-1 ( luise-berlin.de - as of October 7, 2009).

Individual evidence

↑ Ulrike Krenzlin: Johann Gottfried Schadow . Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-345-00467-4 , p. 22 .
↑ Konrad Nicolaus Boy . In: Writings of the Association for the History of Berlin . 1905, p. 46; limited preview in Google Book search
↑ Conrad Nicolaus Boy. In: Fine Arts - Members. Academy of Arts, accessed July 1, 2020 .
↑ Konrad Nicolaus Boy . In: Writings of the Association for the History of Berlin . 1905, p. 45; limited preview in Google Book search

personal data
SURNAME	Boy, Conrad Nicolaus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Boy, Conrad Nicolas; Boy, Konrad Nicolaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	October 9, 1753
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH	April 16, 1793
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Ulrike Krenzlin: Johann Gottfried Schadow . Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-345-00467-4 , p. 22 .

[2] Konrad Nicolaus Boy . In: Writings of the Association for the History of Berlin . 1905, p. 46; limited preview in Google Book search

[3] Conrad Nicolaus Boy. In: Fine Arts - Members. Academy of Arts, accessed July 1, 2020 .

[4] Konrad Nicolaus Boy . In: Writings of the Association for the History of Berlin . 1905, p. 45; limited preview in Google Book search