Eberhard Encke

Rosselenker for the German Embassy in Saint Petersburg

Eberhard Encke: Hasensprungbrücke , Berlin

Eberhard Encke: Pugilers (1913), Hamburg-Harburg

Eberhard Encke (born October 27, 1881 in Berlin , † October 22, 1936 in Bad Nauheim ) was a German sculptor and medalist .

Life

Eberhard Encke, the son of the sculptor Erdmann Encke , studied at the Munich Art Academy with Ludwig von Herterich and from 1905 to 1906 in the master class with Wilhelm von Rümann . From 1906 he lived and worked temporarily in Rome ; The Rome Prize of the Prussian Academy of the Arts , awarded to him in 1907, enabled him to extend this stay in the Villa Strohl-Fern until he returned to Berlin in 1908. Until 1911 he worked as a master student of the sculptor and academy professor Louis Tuaillon . He repeatedly worked with the architect Peter Behrens , who lived and worked in "Haus Erdmannshof " in the Berlin district of Steinstücke near Neubabelsberg , the former residence of Encke's father.

Eberhard Encke died in 1936 while taking a spa stay in Bad Nauheim and was buried in an honorary grave in the Wannsee Old Cemetery.

Portal relief on the Mannesmann House in Düsseldorf, 1912
Façade decoration on the central section of the administration building of Continental AG , Hanover, around 1913
Elector Friedrich I of Brandenburg , monument fountain in Treuenbrietzen , 1913; Memorial melted down in World War II.
Rosse leading dioscuri on the building of the German embassy in Saint Petersburg , 1912 (destroyed in 1914)
Pugilists for Fehrbelliner Platz in Berlin-Wilmersdorf , life-size bronze group, awarded the Golden Prussian Medal for Art in 1912, set up in the nearby Prussian Park around 1923 , lost
Pugilists for the town hall square in Harburg ad Elbe (today Hamburg-Harburg , Harburger Rathausstrasse), 1913, second cast of the group of sculptures in Berlin-Wilmersdorf
Figures and gable relief for the crematorium at the Wilmersdorf cemetery
Two rabbits figures on the railing of Hasensprung bridge in Berlin-Grunewald , 1920
War memorial for the fallen of the XXII. Reserve Corps in World War I, Berlin-Wilmersdorf, 1924
War memorial for the fallen soldiers of the Kaiser-Franz-Garde-Grenadier-Regiment, Berlin-Kreuzberg , 1924
Further war memorials in Minden , Bunzlau and Zeuthen
old VDI memorial ( Alexisbad , now in front of the VDI building in Düsseldorf ) and plaque (to the general assembly in Cologne in 1931) for the 75th anniversary of the VDI, 1931

General Artist Lexicon , Vol. 33, 2002
Vollmer : General Lexicon of Visual Artists. Twentieth century . Volume 2, p. 35

Commons : Eberhard Encke - Collection of images, videos and audio files

↑ Katharina Körting: Development of the "Erdmannshof". Quarrel on historical ground. In: Der Tagesspiegel from February 4, 2001. ( online )
↑ Gabriele Leech-Anspach: Island in front of the island: a small place in the Cold War: Berlin-Steinstücke , Berlin 2005, p. 13

personal data
SURNAME	Encke, Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sculptor and medalist
DATE OF BIRTH	October 27, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	October 22, 1936
Place of death	Berlin