Ernst Hottenroth

Ernst Joseph Hottenroth (born March 12, 1872 in Frankfurt am Main , † February 27, 1908 in Dresden ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Grave of Ernst Hottenroth in the Old Catholic Cemetery in Dresden

Hottenroth was born the son of the sculptor Joseph Hottenroth . He took up his father's profession and initially worked in Berlin as a stonemason under Otto Lessing on the plastic decoration of the Reichstag building , later as an assistant in a stucco workshop, for which he independently directed ornamental work at the New Marstall in Berlin and at the Central Theater in Dresden. Hottenroth went into business for himself in Dresden and supplied the plastic jewelry for numerous buildings.

Hottenroth last lived in the house at Dürerplatz 3 in Dresden. He died here in 1908 and was buried in the Old Catholic Cemetery in Dresden's Friedrichstadt .

Works

1897–1901: Ornamentation on the New Marstall in Berlin
1900: ornamentation in the interior of the Kreuzkirche in Dresden (removed after 1945 to 1955)
1900: Ornaments at the Central Theater in Dresden, Waisenhausstrasse (destroyed in 1945)
1901: Plastic jewelry on the new Sächsische Handelsbank building in Dresden, Waisenhausstrasse (destroyed in 1945)
1901: Ornaments on the building of the Kunstgewerbeschule and Kunstgewerbemuseum in Dresden-Johannstadt, Güntzstraße
1904: plastic jewelry on the mausoleum for the Dresden entrepreneur Bruno Naumann in Königsbrück (in collaboration with architect Oskar Menzel ; under monument protection)
1905–1907: Facade decorations at the district court in Dresden, Münchner Platz
1906: Arcades with lion heads at the Estates building in Dresden
1907: Groups of figures and reliefs on the portals of the 24th district school in Dresden-Striesen, Haydnstraße 49 (used by the Martin-Andersen-Nexö-Gymnasium since 2008 )

literature

Hottenroth, Ernst . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 17 : Heubel – Hubard . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1924, p. 550 .
Ernst Hottenroth. In: Folke Stimmel, Reinhardt Eigenwill et al .: Stadtlexikon Dresden. Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1994, pp. 194–195.

Web links

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

Ernst Hottenroth in the Stadtwiki Dresden

Individual evidence

^ Architectural review . 21st year 1905, issue 6, p. 46 f.

personal data
SURNAME	Hottenroth, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hottenroth, Ernst Joseph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	March 12, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH	Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH	February 27, 1908
Place of death	Dresden

[1] Architectural review . 21st year 1905, issue 6, p. 46 f.