Emanuel Bardou
Emanuel Bardou (born January 4, 1744 in Basel , † June 7, 1818 in Berlin ) was a Swiss sculptor who worked at the Prussian court in Berlin. His brother Paul Joseph Bardou (1747-1814) was a portrait painter. His son Karl Wilhelm Bardou became a portrait painter.
Life
Bardou was a student of Lambert-Sigisbert Adam and has worked as a modeller at the Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur in Berlin since 1775 . From 1786 he took part almost regularly in the exhibitions of the Prussian Academy of the Arts . In 1786 he exhibited a bronze statuette of King Frederick the Great and a statue of Field Marshal Kurt Christoph von Schwerin . In the exhibition in 1787 he shows a Leda and in 1789 a Faun and a Caryatid . In 1788 he became a member of the Academy of Arts. One of Daniel Chodowiecki's busts from 1801 was in the possession of the until the First World WarAssociation for the history of Berlin . Another was acquired by the Bode Museum in 1925 . They were modeled by Bardou after Chodowiecki's death mask and due to the previous years of collaboration between the two, once with and once without a wig. The sculpture collection has had a bust of Immanuel Kant since 1923 , which was created by Bardou in 1798. In 1794 Bardou created the tomb for the preacher DE Roloff with the statue of hope in Berlin's Marienkirche .
Bardou in a costume dispute
After the death of Frederick the Great, Bardou concentrated and exhibited his portraits from 1788, especially in the period from 1788 to 1802, at exhibitions at the Academy. The model was the death mask of the king taken by the Potsdam sculptor Johannes Eckstein, after which he had also made portraits. Immediately after Friedrich's death, a competition for the monument to the popular king ensued among Berlin's sculptors, which initially involved the so-called costume dispute , i.e. the question of how the king should be shown. Eckstein's extreme position, which Friedrich showed at the Academy's exhibitions as Roman emperor in the 1790s, was not shared by Bardou and Chodowiecki. Bardou was hoping for the order for the equestrian statue of Frederick. The question of how the execution was only decided in the middle of the 19th century by Rauch's equestrian statue of Frederick the Great in favor of the popular variant Unter den Linden .
literature
- Martin Fontius , Helmut Holzhey (Ed.): Swiss in Berlin in the 18th century. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-05-002906-4 .
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| SURNAME | Bardou, Emanuel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 4, 1744 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Basel |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 7, 1818 |
| Place of death | Berlin |