Ernst Herter

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Ernst Herter with his wife Elisabeth around 1885

Ernst Gustav Herter (born May 14, 1846 in Berlin , † December 19, 1917 in Charlottenburg ) was a German sculptor and medalist .

Life

Ernst Herter was the eldest son and the second of seven children of the Berlin Building and Admiralty Councilor Gustav Adolf Herter (1804-1882) and his wife Elise Louise nee von Reinhard (1825-1856).

Herter was trained at the Academy of the Arts (Berlin) and later with Ferdinand August Fischer , Gustav Blaeser and Albert Wolff . Since 1869 he ran his own workshop. After he had made a study trip to Italy in 1875 , he settled in Berlin and from 1900 in the then independent Charlottenburg . Herter was a member of the Berlin Art Academy and had the degree of professor.

In 1885 he married Elisabeth Wiebe (1861–1939). He had five children with her: Erna (1886–1972), married to August Skalweit , Irmgard (1888–1970), married to Erich Reuleaux , Ilse (1890–1943), Konrad (1891–1980) and Brigitta (1899–1983 ), married to the painter, music critic and composer Richard Wintzer.

Ernst Herter died in Berlin in 1917 at the age of 71. His grave is in the Old Twelve Apostles Cemetery in Schöneberg . Herter himself created the sculpture on the grave pedestal. Three of his children are also buried here: Ilse, Konrad and Brigitta.

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Sculptures

Public monuments

There are public monuments by Herter all over Germany and the formerly German eastern regions. The Heinrich Heine / Loreley Fountain , ordered and paid for by Empress Sisi, given to the city of Düsseldorf and disdained by it with nasty anti-Semitic accompanying music , was finally set up in New York City .

  • Swinoujscie
    • Emperor Friedrich III statue, on the Grottenplatz on Königsallee
  • Wroclaw
    • Statue of the old Fritz , facade of the government building on Lessingplatz
  • Prussian Holland
    • Kaiser Wilhelm I bust on the war memorial for those who fell in the Wars of Unification, on the market square
  • Thorn
    • Kaiser Wilhelm I statue, on the market square in front of the town hall

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literature

  • Herter, Ernst . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 16 : Hansen – Heubach . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1923, p. 554-555 .
  • Karl Richard Henker (ed.): Funerary art, I. Collection of Berlin cemeteries. Verlag Otto Baumgärtel, Berlin undated (around 1904), plate 3 (Warthmüller von Herter tomb).
  • Brigitte Hüfler: Ernst Herter (1846–1917). Work and portrait by a Berlin sculptor. Phil. Diss. FU Berlin 1978.
  • Peter Bloch, Waldemar Grzimek: Classic Berlin. The 19th century Berlin sculpture school. 1978 (2nd, revised edition Berlin 1994).
  • Peter Bloch (Ed.): North Rhine-Westphalia and the Berlin School of Sculpture of the 19th Century. Berlin 1984.
  • Cornelius Steckner: Museum cemetery. Important tombs in Berlin. Berlin 1984.
  • Peter Bloch, Sibylle Einholz , Jutta von Simson (eds.): Ethos and Pathos - The Berlin Sculpture School 1786–1914. Exhibition catalog Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin / Sculpture Collection of the Staatliche Museen Berlin Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin 1990 (catalog and essay volume).
  • Manuela Lintl: The mermaid fights flirtatiously. (PDF) Article in the daily newspaper Neues Deutschland , July 21, 1998.
  • Stadtmuseum Berlin Foundation: Catalog of the sculptures 1780–1920. Edited by Knut Brehm, Bernd Ernsting, Wolfgang Gottschalk and Jörg Kuhn (LETTER Schriften), Cologne 2003.
  • Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs. Berlin 2006.
  • Jörg Haspel, Klaus von Krosigk (Hrsg.): Garden monuments in Berlin: Friedhöfe. Edited by Katrin Lesser, Jörg Kuhn and Detlev Pietzsch (= contributions to the preservation of monuments in Berlin. Volume 27) Imhof-Verlag, Petersberg 2008, pp. 264, 321, 325.
  • Hans Jürgen Mende: Old twelve apostles cemetery. Ein Friedhofsführer, Christian Simon Verlag Edition Luisenstadt, Berlin 2007, 1st edition, p. 14 and p. 26-27.
  • Prussian Monument Institute V. (Neuss): Central register of Prussian personal and war memorials.

Web links

Commons : Ernst Herter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Konrad Herter: Encounters with people and animals . Duncker, Berlin 1979. ISBN 3-428-04549-1
  2. ↑ Prof. Ernst Gustav Herter. Artist. German Society for Medal Art, accessed on November 17, 2015 .
  3. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places. Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 752.
  4. ^ Notices from the German Agricultural Society. Issue 19, Volume 23, Berlin May 9, 1908, books.google.com
  5. ↑ Frank Bauer, Hartmut Knitter, Heinz Ruppert: Destroyed , Forgotten, Displaced . Military buildings and military monuments in Potsdam. ES Mittler, Berlin / Bonn / Herford 1993, p. 141 f.
  6. ↑ uni-kiel.de ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uni-kiel.de
personal data
SURNAME Herter, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Herter, Ernst Gustav (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1917
Place of death Charlottenburg