David Ferdinand Howaldt
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David Ferdinand Howaldt (born November 8, 1772 in Breslau / Silesia , today Poland , † November 5, 1850 in Kiel ) was a Braunschweig goldsmith .
Life
David Ferdinand Howaldt probably came to Braunschweig by wandering from Breslau by 1798 at the latest and can be traced there for the period from 1799 to 1841. His masterpiece as a goldsmith is recorded in Braunschweig for January 12, 1799.
On October 17, 1799, the young master goldsmith married Dorothea Zwicker, five years his senior, daughter of a local brewer and police assessor . The marriage has five children. The eldest, the only daughter, Elisabeth, remains unmarried in Braunschweig. The following son George Ferdinand justifies the Braunschweiger branch of there later artistic family Howaldt. Three generations in Braunschweig from the long Bildgießerei Howaldt & Son Monuments cast and sculptures or those most artfully made of sheet copper driven . This meant an entry in Meyer's Lexicon as early as 1888 when monument art was in bloom in the Wilhelmine German Empire .
The middle son Hermann later becomes a goldsmith like his father and goes to Augsburg . His marriage remains childless. The fourth child, a boy, does not survive the first year. And the last one, August Ferdinand , later went to Kiel as a "practical mechanic" and founded the Schweffel & Howaldt company and the Kiel branch of the family with his three sons, the shipyard founders (Howaldtswerke AG, today: HDW ).
David Ferdinand Howaldt is training a total of three apprentices , the first of which escaped, the other two are his sons Georg Ferdinand (Easter 1816–1821) and Hermann Heinrich (Easter 1819–1824).
After the death of his wife Dorothea on June 30, 1823 and the abandonment of his work as a goldsmith (after 1841), he moved to his son August Ferdinand in Kiel , where he died on November 5, 1850.
Works
Like all goldsmiths , David Ferdinand Howaldt also used the master stamps prescribed in the strictly regulated guild to mark his work. These are shown opposite, as far as known.
No pieces of his work are known from the family itself . But in the literature there is a reference to " an ornamental vase designated by DFH from private ownership with pan heads on both handles ". This then owned by a Frau v. Pawel standing sugar bowl was "shown at the exhibition of old goldsmithing in the Ducal Museum Braunschweig 1906 " and shown on p. 14 of the catalog. It is found again in 1996, the assumption has been lost according to its cover, with illustration in the standard work "Braunschweiger Goldschmiede" by Gerd Spies. In addition, the Braunschweig museums have several soup ladles, cutlery and a mug from David Ferdinand's workshop .
See also
- Further namesake of the Howaldt family
literature
- Howaldt, David Ferdinand . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 17 : Heubel – Hubard . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1924, p. 581 .
- Wolfgang Scheffler: 544 David Ferdinand Howaldt . In: Goldsmiths of Lower Saxony: Data - Works - Signs . Half vol. 1: Aerzen – Hamburg. . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1965, p. 135 ( books.google.de ).
- Gerd Spies : Braunschweiger Goldschmiede , Munich / Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-7814-0393-9 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gerd Spies: Braunschweig goldsmiths. History - works - masters and brands. Klinkhardt & Biermann, Munich / Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-7814-0393-9 (images).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Howaldt, David Ferdinand |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German goldsmith |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 8, 1772 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 5, 1850 |
| Place of death | Kiel |