Emmerich Andresen

Adrian Emmerich Andresen , also Emerich or Emmrich , (born February 20, 1843 in Uetersen , Holstein , † October 7, 1902 in Meißen ) was a German sculptor and porcelain designer.

Life

The son of the rector Andreas Andresen in Uetersen, who died in 1849, attended the rectorate school in his hometown until his confirmation and worked as an apprentice to the sculptor Ernst Gottfried Vivié in Hamburg from 1859 to 1863 . Since his hometown was still part of the Danish state, he was able to continue his education in Dresden in 1863 with financial support from Copenhagen. Until 1868 he was a student of Ernst Hähnel in Dresden . In 1869 he traveled to Italy on a Prussian scholarship and visited Vienna, Trieste, Venice, Florence, Rome and Naples. He then gained a permanent foothold in Dresden and had a studio in Blumenstrasse 8. Andresen was a representative of academic-classical art. In 1871 he exhibited successfully for the first time at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition and gained the public's attention with his work Gefesselte Psyche . The life-size statue was bought by Kaiser Wilhelm I shortly afterwards . In 1879 he gave a second version to the Thaulow Museum in Kiel, for which he also created the figural decorations on the facade. Before that, in 1869 he had created the statue of Thorvaldsen for the facade of the Hamburger Kunsthalle as a gift from Consul L Laieß . The marble statue "Genius des Ruhms", which is dedicated to Friedrich Hölderlin and which he presented for the first time in 1873 at the Vienna World Exhibition, was given to the city of Tübingen in 1880 as a gift. He contributed to the artistic decoration of the imperial yacht Hohenzollern with figurative decorative elements. In addition to his artistic profession, Andresen was also involved in local politics in Dresden: from January 1884 to 1887 he was a city councilor and in this function was particularly committed to promoting the arts in Dresden. The unveiling of the Gutzkow bust he created on June 11, 1887 on Georgplatz in Dresden gave the artist “a famous name at one stroke”. From 1886 to 1902 Andresen was head of the sculptor's workshop at the Royal Meißen Porcelain Manufactory . In 1896 the Meissen Cathedral Building Association was founded under his chairmanship.

His second son was the actor Hans Andresen .

Work (selection)

Holderlin monument in Tübingen

1871: Psyche bound, formerly Berlin Palace
1873: Design for a Uwe Jens Lornsen memorial
1879: A cycle of Nordic gods and heroes for the Hamburg merchant John Koopmann
1879: Four-tier model for the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Hanover
1880: Hölderlin monument in the old botanical garden in Tübingen , with the inscription of a hymn by Robert Hamerling
1880: Statuette "Uncle Bräsig"
1880: Boy with a frog, figure in a fountain
1886: Evangelist John, limestone. Martin Luther Church Dresden
1887: Bust of the writer Karl Gutzkow on Georgplatz in Dresden, at the Kreuzschule
1895: Design for the renovation of the towers of the cathedral in Meißen (together with the Berlin architect Bernhard Sehring )
1900: Altarpiece of the village church in Berlin-Weißensee

as well as undated

Monument to Johann Friedrich Böttger in Dresden
Sculptures "Justice" and "Goodness" on one of the Dresden town halls

literature

Adolph Kohut : Carl Gutzkow and the Gutzkow monument. In: The Salon for Literature, Art and Society , Volume 1 (1889), Issue 4, pp. 422–428. (Biographical information on Andresen on p. 424)
Andresen, Emerich . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 1 : Aa – Antonio de Miraguel . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1907, p. 481 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Kay Rump: The new Rump. Lexicon of fine artists in Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area. Neumünster 2005 (revised new edition of Ernst Rump's lexicon from 1912)

Individual evidence

^ Wilhelm Loose, Meißner Künstler in: Mitteilungen des Verein für Geschichte der Stadt Meißen, 2nd volume, 1891, pp. 203ff.
↑ Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer, Longing for Arcadia - Schleswig-Holstein Artists in Italy, Heide 2009, p. 289.
^ Jan Drees, The Thaulow Museum 100 Years Ago, Schleswig / Kiel 2011, p. 58.
↑ Andrea Hirsch, Emmerich Andresen - A sculptor from Uetersen unites Hölderlin and Hamerling. In: Das Goetheaneum 11/1999, pp. 198–200.
^ Adolph Kohut: Carl Gutzkow and the Gutzkow monument. In: The Salon for Literature, Art and Society. Volume 1, Issue 4, 1889, p. 424.
↑ Germany, Austria-Hungary and Switzerland scholars, artists and writers in words and pictures. B. Volger, 1908, p. 9.
↑ Article Hölderlin monument in TÜpedia
↑ Andresen-Sehring's draft for the renovation of the towers of Meissen Cathedral, 1895 at www.roseburg-harz.de , accessed on July 3, 2017.

personal data
SURNAME	Andresen, Emmerich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Andresen, Emerich; Andresen, Emmrich; Andresen, Adrian Emmerich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sculptor and porcelain designer
DATE OF BIRTH	February 20, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH	Uetersen
DATE OF DEATH	October 7, 1902
Place of death	Meissen

[1] Wilhelm Loose, Meißner Künstler in: Mitteilungen des Verein für Geschichte der Stadt Meißen, 2nd volume, 1891, pp. 203ff.

[2] Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer, Longing for Arcadia - Schleswig-Holstein Artists in Italy, Heide 2009, p. 289.

[3] Jan Drees, The Thaulow Museum 100 Years Ago, Schleswig / Kiel 2011, p. 58.

[4] Andrea Hirsch, Emmerich Andresen - A sculptor from Uetersen unites Hölderlin and Hamerling. In: Das Goetheaneum 11/1999, pp. 198–200.

[5] Adolph Kohut: Carl Gutzkow and the Gutzkow monument. In: The Salon for Literature, Art and Society. Volume 1, Issue 4, 1889, p. 424.

[6] Germany, Austria-Hungary and Switzerland scholars, artists and writers in words and pictures. B. Volger, 1908, p. 9.

[7] Article Hölderlin monument in TÜpedia

[8] Andresen-Sehring's draft for the renovation of the towers of Meissen Cathedral, 1895 at www.roseburg-harz.de , accessed on July 3, 2017.