Ernst Herter
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
- 1870: Bacchante playing with a boy
- 1873: Antigone ( marble , owned by Kaiser Wilhelm I)
- Antigone, about to bury her brother
- Orestes before killing Clytemnestra
- 1876 and 1878: Alexander the Great , fighting sleep while studying at night (1876) Bronze version in the National Gallery in Berlin
- 1879: The wounded Achilles
- 1880: Till Eulenspiegel and Doctor Eisenbarth , two statuettes
- 1881: Moses smashing the tablets of the law
- 1884: Dying Achilles for Empress Elisabeth (Sisi) of Austria for installation in the Achilleion (Corfu)
- 1886: dormant Aspasia
- Hermes for the Hermesvilla in Vienna
- 1896: The rare catch (a fisherman with a mermaid in his net) for the Viktoriapark in Berlin-Kreuzberg
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 .
- Berlin
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Mitte district
- Hermann von Helmholtz statue, in the forecourt of the Humboldt University
- Statue of Ludwig I the Brandenburger (Ludwig V) for Berlin's Siegesallee with the two busts of Johann von Buch the Younger and Johann II, Burgrave of Nuremberg , unveiled on November 7, 1899 as a monument group 10 . Only the torso of the Nuremberg burgrave in the Spandau citadel is preserved .
- Orpheus with animals, 1902, badly destroyed (Orpheus without head, lion without feet), Eckernförde Platz , previously part of the wall fountain at the art college building Am Steinplatz in Charlottenburg
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District Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf
- Alfred Krupp statue, in the Technical University
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Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district
- Figure group A rare catch (fisherman with mermaid), bronze, Viktoriapark am Kreuzberg, Kreuzbergstrasse, at the foot of the waterfall
- Monument to Max von Eyth in the DLG, Dessauer Strasse (unveiled in 1908)
- Portrait relief medallion Woldemar Bargiel on the Bargiel grave in the Trinity Cemetery II at Bergmannstrasse 39–41
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Tempelhof-Schöneberg district
- Bronze relief for the tomb of the painter Robert Warthmüller in the Old Twelve Apostles Cemetery, Kolonnenstrasse
- Kneeling angel (cast zinc, bronzed) for the grave of the Ernst Herter family in the Old Twelve Apostles Cemetery, Kolonnenstrasse
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Spandau district
- Memorial for those who fell in the wars of 1864, 1866 and 1870/1871 (1875), in the cemetery " In den Kisseln " (a smaller version decorates Herter's grave)
- Memorial to those who fell in the German Unification Wars (1876), Plantage (Stresow), (not preserved)
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Mitte district
- Potsdam
- Bust of the Great Elector on the facade of the district court, in an arched field, has been preserved
- Equestrian statue of Kaiser Wilhelm I, bronze, on the Friendship Island on the Long Bridge since 1901 , dismantled after 1945, then scrapped , the base later removed
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Wiesbaden
- Otto von Bismarck statue, now in the Nerotal Park
- Flensburg
- Kaiser Wilhelm I statue , in the district court building
- Kiel-Holtenau
- Kaiser Wilhelm I relief medallion, Kaiser Friedrich III. -Relief medallion, Kaiser Wilhelm II. -Relief medallion, in the Drei-Kaiser-Halle on the ground floor of the lighthouse
- Kaiser Wilhelm I statue, next to the Holtenau lighthouse
- The mermaids “North Sea and Baltic Sea” shake hands in relief above the door of the Kiel-Holtenau lighthouse , 1896
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Swinoujscie
- Emperor Friedrich III statue, on the Grottenplatz on Königsallee
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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
gallery
War memorial , 1875, Friedhof In den Kisseln
Berlin-SpandauWar memorial , 1875, Friedhof In den Kisseln
Berlin-SpandauNike on Herter's grave, 1875
Old Twelve Apostles CemeteryDying Achilles , 1884
Achilleion (Corfu)Loreley Fountain ( Heinrich Heine Monument ), 1899
New York BronxOrpheus , 1902
Berlin-WeddingThe Muse Terpsichore , 1909, for the Thorn City Theater
Hermes statue in front of the Hermes Villa
Vienna
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
- Literature by and about Ernst Herter in the catalog of the German National Library
- Sisi, Ernst Herter and the Heine Memorial in the Bronx . Wiener Zeitung . December 11, 1998. Archived from the original on September 18, 2014.
- German Society for Medal Art eV: Prof. Ernst Gustav Herter
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Konrad Herter: Encounters with people and animals . Duncker, Berlin 1979. ISBN 3-428-04549-1
- ↑ Prof. Ernst Gustav Herter. Artist. German Society for Medal Art, accessed on November 17, 2015 .
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places. Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 752.
- ^ Notices from the German Agricultural Society. Issue 19, Volume 23, Berlin May 9, 1908, books.google.com
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
personal data | |
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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 |