Förster & Kracht

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Förster & Kracht was a picture and bronze foundry based in Düsseldorf.

history

The Adolph Kolping monument in Cologne, designed by the sculptor Johann Baptist Schreiner and cast by Förster & Kracht in 1903

The "Düsseldorfer Bild- und Broncegiesserei Förster & Kracht" was founded in 1898 by the ore caster Bernhard Förster and the businessman Hugo Kracht as owners. The company employed around 25 workers at the beginning of the 20th century.

The company, based in Düsseldorf-Oberkassel , was renamed in 1908 in Düsseldorf bronze picture foundry vorm. Förster & Kracht , also operated temporarily as Düsseldorfer Bronzegießerei (formerly Förster & Kracht) and at the latest on the mourners cast in 1909 for the sculptor Wilhelm Lehmbruck as " Düsseldorfer Bronzegießerei GmbH " according to the foundry inscription . The name " Bronzegiesserei-Düsseldorf " is also known.

In 1948 the sculptor Ewald Brandt worked as a "volunteer in a Düsseldorf bronze foundry".

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The iron and steel works, machine works, metal foundries and related trades in the Lower Rhine-Westphalian industrial district and the neighboring areas , 2nd edition, Dortmund: CL Krüger, 1901, p. 37
  2. ↑ The art. Monthly books for free and applied arts , Volume 8, Part 2, Issue 16, 1907, p. 107; Preview over google books
  3. ↑ Die Kunst ... , Volume 18 (1908), p. 265; Preview over google books
  4. ↑ Michael Nungesser (title registration), Joachim Brand (catalog editing), Bernd Evers (ed.): Ornamental master works of the nineteenth century. An inventory catalog of the art library (= collection catalogs of the art library ), Berlin: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Prussischer Kulturbesitz, 2000, ISBN 3-88609-404-9 , p. 77; Preview over google books
  5. ^ Peter Betthausen, Christoph Brockhaus, Barbara Lepper: Wilhelm Lehmbruck (1881-1919): Sculpture, painting, graphics. From the collections of the Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum of the city of Duisburg , for the exhibition in the museums of the city of Gotha in the Museum der Natur from October 17 to December 13, 1987, in the National Gallery of the State Museums in Berlin in the Altes Museum from January 23 until March 27, 1988 and in the Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig from April 30 to June 26, 1988, Duisburg: Stadtbibliothek, 1987, ISBN 3923576331 , p. 178; Preview over google books
  6. ↑ Beaux-arts du monde , Volume 78 (2008), Issues 7–9, p. 180
  7. ^ Hugo Thielen : Brandt, (2) Ewald , in: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 69; Preview over google books