Erdmann Encke
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 .
Frederick the Great , King of Prussia, for the Hall of Fame , today at Hohenzollern Castle
Friedrich Ludwig Jahn in the Hasenheide (Berlin)
Elector Joachim II , 1889, Reformationsplatz ( Spandau -Altstadt)
Honorary grave, together with the son Eberhard Encke , also a sculptor
Work selection
- Ideal-Plastiken Teutons fighting with two Gauls and Odysseus and Penelope
- 1872 bronze statue gymnastics father Jahn - Volkspark Hasenheide Berlin-Neukölln
- 1880 Marble monument of Queen Luise - replica of the Großer Tiergarten Berlin, original on the Spandau Citadel
- 1883 bronze statue of Elector Friedrich I of Brandenburg - formerly in the ruler's hall in the Berlin armory, now in Hohenzollern Castle
- 1886 bronze statue of King Friedrich II of Prussia - formerly in the ruler's hall in the Berlin armory, now in Hohenzollern Castle
- 1896 Pony and Squire - Large zoo near Bellevue Palace
- 1889 bronze statue of Elector Joachim II - Reformationsplatz Berlin-Spandau
- 1890 Bronze group Electress Elisabeth, giving Christian teachings to her son Joachim - Alte Nationalgalerie Berlin
- 1894 Sarcophagus of Kaiser Wilhelm I and Empress Augusta and Archangel Michael - mausoleum in the Charlottenburg Palace Park
Web links
literature
- Alfred Gotthold Meyer: Encke, Erdmann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 48, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, p. 357 f.
- Encke, Erdmann . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 10 : Dubolon – Erlwein . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1914, p. 509 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Ethos and pathos. The Berlin School of Sculpture 1786–1914. Catalog, edited by Peter Bloch, Sibylle Einholz and Jutta von Simson. Berlin 1990, p. 93 f.
- Erdmann Encke . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 33, Saur, Munich a. a. 2002, ISBN 3-598-22773-6 , p. 512.
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SURNAME | Encke, Erdmann |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 26, 1843 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
DATE OF DEATH | July 7, 1896 |
Place of death | Neubabelsberg near Potsdam |