Ernst von Bandel

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Ernst von Bandel

Ernst von Bandel (born May 17, 1800 in Ansbach , † September 25, 1876 in Neudegg ; full name: Joseph Ernst von Bandel ) was a German architect , sculptor and painter .

Life

family

Bandel was the son of the President of the Court of Appeal in Ansbach, Georg Carl Friedrich Ritter von Bandel, and his wife Johanna nee Schultheiss. The couple had four children, including the painter and architect Joseph Ernst as a second child.

The architect and Conrad Wilhelm Hase student Emil Hackländer married Amalie, a daughter of Ernst von Bandels.

Career

Bandel's childhood was overshadowed by political events (French occupation in 1805; wars of liberation in 1813 ), which may explain his patriotic sentiments.

Bust created by Ernst von Bandel: King Max I Joseph , 1826, marble, Bavarian National Museum in Munich

At the age of 14, Bandel received drawing lessons from the engraver Albert Christoph Reindel at the Nuremberg Art School in 1814 . Two years later, Bandel went to Munich to apply to the Royal Bavarian Forestry Office. There he met the architect Karl von Fischer , became his pupil and thus stuck to art. Bandel was at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in 1916 and became a student of the lecturers Joseph Hauber , Carl Ernst Christoph von Hess , Moritz Kellerhoven , Wilhelm von Kobell , Johann Peter von Langer , Robert von Langer and Andreas Seidl . Bandel studied sculpture with Johann Nepomuk von Haller .

After his father's death in 1818, Bandel almost had to give up art for financial reasons, but the Bavarian King Maximilian I granted Bandel a generous grant . In the following year, Bandel got a job as a draftsman at the royal court building authority.

In 1820, Bandel refused to work as an assistant to the architect Leo von Klenze because he vehemently rejected his preference for the Gothic .

Ernst von Bandel's hut, in which he lived from 1874–1875, with a bust and memorial stone at the Hermannsdenkmal
Ernst von Bandel around 1870 while working on the Hermannsdenkmal
Grave in the Engesohde city cemetery
Schiller fountain with bust 1861 Hamburg-Harburg
Two lions 2011 Schloßmühlendamm, Hamburg-Harburg

With the financial support of the Bavarian King Maximilian I, Bandel was able to stay in Italy between 1825 and 1827. During a longer stay in Rome he met the sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen , whom he and the Nazarenes rejected. The sculptors Ludwig Schwanthaler and Heinrich Max Imhof were among his acquaintances. After a short time, Bandel joined the artist colleagues Joseph Anton Koch , Johann Christian Reinhart and Franz and Johannes Riepenhausen .

In 1827 Bandel returned to Germany and settled again in Munich. In the same year he married Karolina von Kohlhagen (born October 6, 1802, † April 4, 1894). With her he had two daughters and five sons, including the later sculptor Heinrich von Bandel . From 1827 to 1834, Bandel was employed at the Glyptothek in Munich under the direction of the sculptor Christian Daniel Rauch .

In 1832 Bandel was elected to the board of directors of the Münchner Kunstverein . Bandel was with the Germanist Hans Ferdinand Maßmann a . a. Founder of an academic gymnastics club.

Since Bandel felt misunderstood by the Bavarian King Ludwig I , he went to Berlin in 1834 and joined the circle around Christian Daniel Rauch and Johann Gottfried Schadow . During this time the first sketches of a "German national monument" were made. Since Bandel met with no official interest or funding, he went to Hanover . There he was entrusted - with the intercession of Ernst Ebeling - by King Wilhelm IV with the design of the residential palace. He also worked as a sculptor on the new building of the auditorium of the Georg August University in Göttingen and created the gable reliefs with the allegories of the four old faculties.

From 1837 to 1846 Bandel lived and worked in Detmold , where he built the Hermann monument in memory of the Cheruscan prince Arminius .

Together with his son Roderich , von Bandel developed the construction of the inner iron frame of the monument: Due to the technically very difficult problem of holding the copper plates of the huge sculpture together from the inside, father and son made several models of the inner iron frame of the monument in advance, one of which has been preserved in the Lippisches Landesmuseum in Detmold, another in the Bandelhütte .

After the initial euphoria, however, the public's interest in this project waned, so that donations for the construction of the monument came in with difficulty. Bandel invested all of his fortune in the construction without being able to complete the monument. In 1846, Bandel fell out with the Detmold Hermannsverein. He went back to Hanover embittered and impoverished, but there began again to collect donations. After the end of the Franco-Prussian War , Bandel's project again met with great enthusiasm from the government and the people. On August 16, 1875, the Hermannsdenkmal was inaugurated in the presence of the German Emperor Wilhelm I , who had also provided the missing sum for completion.

Bandel attended this ceremony, but was very weak from kidney disease. Kaiser Wilhelm I. arranged for a four-month spa stay in Italy. On the way back, Ernst von Bandel died at the age of 76 on September 25, 1876 on the estate of his half-brother Hermann Freiherr von Gaisberg-Schöckingen . He found his final resting place in the Engesohde city cemetery in Hanover.

Honors

Other well-known works

  • 1835: Eltendenkmal in the Deister near Wennigsen, as well as Elten's tomb in the Wennigs cemetery , both preserved
  • 1847 - 1848: Ornaments, capitals and decorative elements made of sandstone on the Egestorff House in Deisterstraße in Linden near Hanover; not received

literature

See also

Web links

Commons : Ernst von Bandel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Hermannsdenkmal  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Margarete Braun-Ronsdorf:  Bandel, Ernst Joseph von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 574 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Reinhard Glaß: Hackländer, Wilhelm Emil in the database architects and artists with direct reference to Conrad Wilhelm Hase (1818–1902) [undated], last accessed on July 26, 2019
  3. ^ Academy of Fine Arts, Munich: Entry in the register for Joseph Ernst Bandel. Retrieved May 17, 2020 .
  4. ↑ for the life data see photo:
  5. ↑ n.v . : Ernst von Bandel / The Builder of the Hermannsdenkmals , article by the Landesverband Lippe, Monument Foundation on the page hermannsdenkmal.de [ undated ], last accessed on July 26, 2019
  6. ^ Brigitte Bötel: Joseph Ernst von Bandel (1800–1876). The sculptural work . Dissertation. University of Göttingen 1984, p. 20; Preview over google books
personal data
SURNAME Bandel, Ernst von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bandel, Joseph Ernst von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, sculptor and painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH Ansbach
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1876
Place of death Neudegg near Donauwörth