Ernst Westphal

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Ernst Westphal , according to other sources Ernst Westpfahl , (born October 20, 1851 in Lübeck , † September 26, 1926 in Berlin ) was a German sculptor and medalist .

Life

Westphal had been running a studio for building sculptures in the house at Lützowstrasse 71 in Berlin-Tiergarten since 1895 at the latest . For house facades and interiors he created reliefs and three-dimensional sculptures , which he executed in stone, but also in bronze . A large part of his works has been preserved to this day and shapes the appearance of Berlin, but also other cities in Germany.

plant

• 1889: Sandstone figures on the Mannheim water tower
• 1892: Ornamental and figurative decorations on the balconies and ceiling of the theater on Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin-Mitte
• 1893: all stucco and sculptural work on and in the house at Bellevuestraße 11a in Berlin-Tiergarten
• 1895: Ceiling decoration in the White Hall of the Berlin City Palace
• 1898–1900: plastic jewelry in the auditorium of today's mayor's heart primary school in Berlin-Kreuzberg , Wilmsstrasse 10
• 1899–1900: Decorative friezes on the pillars in the hallways of the Humboldthain School
• 1899–1905: sculptural decoration on the town hall of Charlottenburg : triangular gable above the central projection, decoration on the back (partially removed), decoration in the western stairwell
• 1901: Gravestones for Karl Theodor Liebermann, Albert Hamburger and Max Fabisch (the latter together with the architect Walther Schilbach ) in the Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee
• 1901–1905: Carvings for the registry office at the Fischerbrücke in Berlin-Mitte (moved to the wedding room in Pankow town hall in 1979 )
• 1903: two reclining figures for the building of the Chamber of Commerce (today the Institute for Library Science of the Humboldt University ) in Berlin-Mitte, Dorotheenstrasse 26
• 1904: sandstone reliefs for the Grünstraßenbrücke in Berlin-Mitte; One relief shows a group of people who helpfully hold out their hands to a drowning person, the other shows women washing and chatting. It is possible that the sculptor was referring to Wilhelm Spindler's laundry, which used to be on the other side of Wallstrasse .
• 1905: Figures and reliefs for two Wertheim department stores in Berlin ( Leipziger Straße department store and Rosenthaler Straße department store )
• 1905: Building jewelry at the Berlin School of  Economics in Berlin-Mitte, Spandauer Straße 1 (today the economics faculty of the Humboldt University)
• 1905–1910: Façade decoration for the Kaiser Wilhelms Academy in Berlin-Mitte, Invalidenstraße (together with Otto Lessing and Albert Manthe )
• 1910: Plant boxes with reliefs made of terracotta (made by the Imperial Majolica Workshop Cadinen )
• 1910/1911: clinker brick decor (using Roman and Moorish motifs) on the facade of the Admiralspalast in Berlin, Planckstrasse
• 1913/1914: Construction sculpture on the administration building of Orenstein & Koppel - Arthur Koppel AG in Berlin-Kreuzberg, Tempelhofer Ufer 23–24 (sculptures lost, building under monument protection)
• Portal decorations (simple stone ornaments) at the Kaiserin-Auguste-Viktoria-Infant home (other portals by Josef Rauch )
• Bronze memorial plaque for the mayor of Berlin at the Rotes Rathaus
• Sepulcher in the style of the Italian Renaissance for the engineer and entrepreneur Carl Hofmann (1836-1916) (architecture of Bruno Schmitz , marble statue of Nicholas Geiger , ornamental decoration of Westphahl; 1991/1992 on behalf of the Historical Foundation churchyards and cemeteries in Berlin and Brandenburg with Help from the German Lottery Foundation restored)

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  Sphinx on the Mannheim water tower

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  Guthmann hereditary funeral, Wannsee cemetery, Lindenstrasse

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  Hofmann tomb, figure of Geiger, ornamentation by Westphal

literature

• West stake, Ernst . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 35 : Libra-Wilhelmson . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1942, p. 455 .
• Dehio Handbook of German Art Monuments, Berlin. Berlin 1994. (Mentioned in the register of persons)
• Alfred Etzold: A Berlin cultural monument of world renown. The Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee. Edition Hentrich, Teetz and Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-938485-17-5 . (Short biography of Ernst Westphal in the appendix)
• Karl Hiller: The architectural sculptor Ernst Westphal (1851-1926). Berlin 2013. ( karl-hiller.de PDF; 1.99 MB).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ Westpfahl, E., Sculptor . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1895, part 1 (alphabetical index of the inhabitants of Berlin), p. 1494.
2. ↑ Westpfhal, E. In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1895, part 3 (list of the residents of Berlin according to their occupations), p. 43.
3. ↑ Institute building for library science hu-berlin.de.
4. ↑ Monument Grünstraßenbrücke with reference to the sculptor
5. ^ Facade decorations of the Kaiser Wilhelm Academy ( Memento of the original from July 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ^ Information from the City Museum Foundation in Berlin, accessed on April 11, 2009.
7. ^ Karl Hiller: The Planckstrasse facade of the Admiralspalast. Documentation of the trial axis and restoration concept. o. O. 2006. (Chapter I.4 Description of the rear facade and its iconography. ) P. 7–10 ( karl-hiller.de PDF; 4.11 MB).