Erdmann Encke

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Erdmann Encke
Queen Luise , Great Zoo
"Pony and Squire" (1896), Berlin - near Bellevue Palace
"Pony and Squire" (1896), partial view, Berlin - near Bellevue Palace

Erdmann Encke (born January 26, 1843 in Berlin , † July 7, 1896 in Neubabelsberg near Potsdam ) was a German sculptor . Encke belonged to the smoking school of the Berlin sculpture school .

Life

Erdmann Encke was the son of the Berlin businessman Carl Friedrich Ferdinand Encke, who came from Leipzig. The frequently found claim that he is a descendant of the connection between Countess Lichtenau and Friedrich Wilhelm II is wrong. His younger brother Fedor Encke (1851–1926) was a successful portrait painter.

Encke was a student of Albert Wolff and made his debut with the group of a German in a fight with two Gauls , which testified to energy in the conception and great freedom in movement. After he had exhibited a group: Odysseus , from whom Penelope said goodbye , he won the contract in the competition for the Friedrich Ludwig Jahn monument in Berlin's Hasenheide , which, conceived with great character and executed with healthy realism, was cast in ore and unveiled in 1872 has been. He also created the bronze statue of Elector Friedrich I of Brandenburg for a niche next to the main portal of the Berlin City Hall and the marble statue of Queen Luise in the Tiergarten, unveiled in 1880 , which he placed on its round pedestal with the farewell and return of the warriors and the female concern decorated with relief depicting the wounded. He worked the bronze statues of the Great Elector and Frederick the Great for the Berlin Hall of Fame . He also worked with bronze portrait busts, in which he was lucky enough to use polychromy , as well as graceful genre figures (such as the boy with a pony in the Berlin zoo ).

Since 1882 a full member and senator of the Berlin Academy of the Arts, he was later appointed imperial court sculptor . Shortly before his death, he had the Erdmannshof built in Babelsberg. The bearer of the Red Eagle Order, 4th class, was buried in an honorary grave at the old cemetery in Wannsee .

Work selection

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