Elsbeth Rommel
Elsbeth Rommel (* 1876 in Hanover ; † in the 20th century) was a German sculptor .
Life
family
Elsbeth Rommel was the daughter of the sculptor Oswald Rommel senior (1844–1924), the sister of the one year older sculptor Oswald Rommel junior and the granddaughter of Ernst Rommel , librarian at the Hanover University Library .
In September, according to a wedding advertisement in the Hannoversche Courier on September 9, 1913, she married the Hildesheim candidate for the higher teaching position, Leo Schultz, confidently named her profession as "[...] academic sculptor" and continued - progressive for the time - the double name "Schultz-Rommel".
Career and works
Born in the early days of the German Empire , Elsbeth Rommel went to Berlin to study in 1895 .
Elsbeth Rommel was the only woman among the artists involved in the design of the New Town Hall in Hanover, which was still under construction at the time . In 1907 and 1908 she was commissioned to create four figures for the large niches in the south hall, today's garden hall , for a fee of 2200 Marks each , symbolically representing the surroundings of the New Town Hall;
- a gardener - for the Maschpark ;
- a shepherd - for the meadows that were around at the time ;
- a rower - for summer water sports ;
- a skater - for winter sports on the ice surfaces.
The four figures have not survived.
She also made sketches for the New Town Hall with models of "[...] four kneeling figures with horns of plenty for the openings of the oval staircases", which apparently meant the spiral staircases in the large domed hall of the building - and was finally able to produce two of these models run in stone.
Rommel's early works also include the reliefs on the neo-Romanesque chapel built in 1910 by the architect Oskar Barnstorf on the Engesohde city cemetery .
In the Egestorff School in Hanover , Petristraße 4 in the Hanover district of Linden-Süd , there is a bust of the school's namesake, Georg Egestorff , by Elsbeth Rommel.
Archival material
An archival to Elsbeth drum can be found, for example,
- in the city archive of Hanover, the logs HR 13, No. 113
- on the figures in today's garden hall from March 9, 1908 and May 22, 1908;
- to the figures with horns of plenty for the openings of the oval stairwells of August 5, 1908 and October 31, 1908.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i Karin Ehrich: Hanover's women and the new town hall , in Cornelia Regin (ed.): Splendor and power. Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the inauguration of the New Town Hall in Hanover , in the series Hannoversche Studien , Volume 14, Hanover: Hahn, 2013, ISBN 978-3-7752-4964-5 , pp. 381–408; here: p. 402f. and notes according to Werner Heine from the Hanover City Archives , Oswald Rommel registration card
- ↑ Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Alte Döhrener Straße 96. In: this: Hanover. Art and culture lexicon . Handbook and city guide. New edition, 4 ,. updated and expanded edition. zu Klampen Verlag, Springe 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , p. 76f.
- ↑ Compare Horst Kemmling (responsible), Olga Baumgarten, Tina Kirchner, Saskia Quinkenstein, Alexander Robin, Emel Sarioglu (ed.): Egestorffschule - International - At home in Linden-Süd on the egestorffschule.de page , last accessed on April 28th 2016.
- ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Egestorff, (1) Georg. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 104; Preview over google books
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rommel, Elsbeth |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schultz-Rommel, Elsbeth |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th century |