Ernst Hanssen
Ernst Hanssen (born March 29, 1907 in Heide ; † December 20, 1989 in Hamburg ) was a German metal and stone sculptor and goldsmith.
Live and act
As the son of the married couple Alma and Georg Hanssen and the youngest of eight siblings, he grew up in Heide (Holstein) . An apprenticeship with a master goldsmith and studies at the State Art School in Hamburg formed the basis for his artistic work .
He was married three times and had 2 sons from his first marriage.
For many years he was only able to carry out his work under difficult conditions, as he had to set up a workshop under the tracks of the Hamburger Hochbahn (Immenhof) due to the severe war damage in Hamburg, which he used until his retirement.
For the Catholic Church he made high-quality gold and silversmiths ( monstrances ). He received extensive public contracts from the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, d. H. from the bridge and civil engineering department and from the city planning office. The inscriptions he created on at least 82 Hamburg bridges are just a few examples, including those on the old Lombard Bridge, Kennedy Bridge, Legien Bridge and many other Alster and Fleet bridges. They are made of bronze, aluminum and cast iron without any allegorical decoration. Among other things, he was commissioned with renovation work that concerned the removal of war damage to works of art in the Michaeliskirche (St. Michaelis and Lucifer group above the portal), the Blücher monument in Altona, the Stuhlmann fountain and 10 other objects. Further work concerned the production of sundials (e.g. at the school in Halstenbek), candelabras (e.g. two 5-lamp on the Old Lombard Bridge), writings and figurative ornaments (e.g. ornaments "Phoenix" and " Ikarus ”at Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel airport) and memorial plaques (e.g. St. Josefskirche in Hamburg-Altona).
The large number of his private orders are not publicly available.
On his own orders, he made a tomb for his parents' family grave in Heide / Holstein as well as his own tomb, which was erected a year before his death in the grave place reserved for him in the cemetery in Hamburg-Ohlsdorf, grid square U 20, 213 (at Chapel 2 between Nebenallee and Kapellenstrasse ) but was illegally removed before 2012.
His grave is listed on the homepage of the Ohlsdorf Cemetery of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg in the list of graves of well-known personalities.
His artistic estate is with the family of his son, who died in 2003, in Seabrook , Texas . It was planned to donate these items to the city of Seabrook, provided that the city created a small museum for them. The project was in preparation and a model for it had already been created when Ernst Hanssen died unexpectedly. His son died too early in Seabrook, so that this project has not yet been implemented. It is considered to return these items to his hometown as a closed collection.
Works (selection)
- The above-mentioned tomb in the cemetery in Heide / Holstein
- Artistic design of the bridge lattice of the Twietenkoppelbrücke ( Outer Alster ).
- Sculpture "The Consoling One": The work of art was acquired by the city of Garbsen in 2001 and is in the "Planet Ring Cemetery". The date of creation of the sculpture is unknown.
- Relief "Mother with Children": The relief is located in Rellingen on the main building of the Brothers Grimm School and can be recognized when entering the school grounds from Appelkamp. It is a 2.12 m high and 63 cm wide bronze high relief that the Hamburg sculptor Ernst Hanssen made for a fountain in the summer of 1965 based on a design by the Rellinger painter and graphic artist Hildi Schmidt. "HSH" (apparently for Hildi Schmidt-Heins) is engraved on the lower right. The entire fountain system cost the community of Rellingen at that time 15,760 marks, of which 9,910 marks for the design, manufacture and assembly of the relief. The occasion was the inauguration of the pavilions built for the school expansion. Today only remains of the fountain can be seen under bushes in front of the eastern low-rise building. The relief was removed from the fountain at the end of the 1970s and mounted on the house wall.
- Bern bridge. Hamburg-Farmsen-Berne location . Motif chosen after the name of the street that leads on to the Fasanenweg and the pheasant farm that presumably existed there.
- Relief on the gymnasium of the community of Holm (Pinneberg district) . The relief installed as art on the building in 1970 was reassembled when the gymnasium was later replaced by a new building.
- Vierländerin fountain . The fountain with a stone sculpture of a four-country peasant woman by Engelbert Peiffer , built in 1878 based on a design by FA Meyer on the Messberg , is today on the hop market at the Nikolaikirche memorial .
- Fountain figure "Child with Fish". That the sculpture in a small green area on the edge of Goethestrasse in Hamburg-Altona originally served as a gargoyle on the edge of a water basin can still be seen from the stones surrounding it. However, the water basin is no longer in operation and has been filled.
Tomb in Heide / Holstein
Twietenkoppelbrücke (1968), steel a. Grundpl.
The consoling one
Mother with children
Timmerlohbrücke (1963) in Hamburg-Langenhorn
Candelabra (1953), 5 lights, Old Lombard Bridge in Hamburg
Berner Brücke (1963), steel-forged, Hamburg-Farmsen-Berne . One of two factories there
Signpost (photo by the artist), made in 1955 (steel). Location: Ladenbeker Furtweg Bridge over the B5 in Hamburg-Lohbrügge
Pelicans (fountain figures, 1959, bronze cast) at the main church of St. Trinitatis (Altona)
Bekassinenaubrücke (1962, forged steel) in Hamburg-Farmsen-Berne
Relief (1970) at the gym in Holm (Pinneberg district)
Vierländer Brunnen, head renovated in 1953 by Ernst Hanssen (new production, stone).
Altar relief (The "CENA"), cut-out photo, made around 1950 for a client in Ecuador, silver embossed, based on The Last Supper (Leonardo da Vinci)
Fountain figure "Child with Fish" (1957), shell limestone, location: Hamburg-Altona , Goethestrasse
Equatorial sundial (1971), steel.geschm., At the Wellingsbüttel manor in the Wellingsbüttel district of Hamburg
Stuhlmannbrunnen in Hamburg-Altona . Restored by EH in 1951, 1975 and 1979
Satan's head of the St. Michaelis and Lucifer group above the entrance portal of the main church St. Michaelis (Hamburg) . Newly manufactured by EH in 1950. Copper drifting
Habicht ornaments on the Habichtplatz skyscraper in Hamburg-Barmbek-Nord . Manufactured by EH 1954. Steel, melted.
Altar candlesticks, made by EH in 1961 for the St. Francis Church in Hamburg-Barmbek-Nord . Brass
Ciborium, made by EH for the St. Francis Church in Hamburg-Barmbek-Nord . With fire enamel + stone, silver, gold-plated.
Altar cross. Manufactured by EH for the St. Francis Church in Hamburg-Barmbek-Nord . Bronze
Processional cross. Manufactured by EH for the St. Francis Church in Hamburg-Barmbek-Nord . Silver w. Precious.
Measuring cup. Manufactured by EH for the St. Francis Church in Hamburg-Barmbek-Nord . Silver (gold plated)
Bäckerbrücke (1952), Saseler Damm in the Poppenbüttel district of Hamburg . Steel, melted
Animals-People (1951). Former cattle market hall Hamburg, Neuer Kamp / Budapester Straße, ceramics
The sowing end (date of manufacture unknown). Privately owned
Wördenmoorbrücke (1964) in Hamburg-Langenhorn
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Literature (selection)
- Maike Bruhns : Hanssen, Ernst . In: The new rump. Lexicon of visual artists from Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area . Ed .: Rump family. Revised new edition of Ernst Rump's dictionary . Supplemented and revised by Maike Bruhns, Wachholtz, Neumünster 2013, ISBN 978-3-529-02792-5 , p. 175
Individual evidence
- ^ Source of this information: Detlef Kuckuck, Garbsen Culture and Sports Office
- ↑ Source: Walter Koop, Rellingen
- ↑ Source: Birgit Schwanebeck, Hamburg-Farmsen-Berne
- ↑ Source: Clemens Michalski from the Moorrege Office and Mayor Walter Rißler / Holm (Pinneberg district)
- ↑ http://www.denkmalstiftung.de/index.php?pg=fundraising_vierlaenderin&me1=194&hl=de
- ↑ Source: Hajo Schaefer, Altona District Office, Urban Green Department
Remarks
- ↑ According to information from the cemetery administration on September 25, 2017, the absence of the sculpture was already reported there in 2012, whereupon a complaint was made to the police against unknown persons. The sculpture is kept in the cemetery computer under the name "Psyche", there is no entry of the grave owner.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hanssen, Ernst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German metal and stone sculptor and goldsmith |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 29, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | pagan |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 20, 1989 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |