Fred Voelckerling

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Hans Karl Alfred "Fred" Voelckerling (born August 21, 1872 in Berlin , † January 27, 1945 in Dresden - Weißer Hirsch ) was a German painter and sculptor. In addition to equestrian monuments, he created a variety of bronze animal sculptures.

War memorial Grimma

Life

Voelckerling grew up as a half-orphan after the early death of his father. He finished high school in Dresden and then served in the Saxon Army, Pioneer Battalion 12 , as an avant-garde . After his military service, in which he had reached the rank of major, he first lived in Munich and moved to Dresden again in 1892. Here he studied from 1892 to 1894 at the Dresden School of Applied Arts and from 1895 to 1896 at the Dresden Art Academy under Robert Diez , in whose studio he worked. He then went to Paris and worked in the studio of the French sculptor Emmanuel Frémiet in 1899 . Back in Dresden in 1905 he founded a school studio. His travels to Scotland, England and America served as motivic inspiration.

His works include monuments and countless animal sculptures, mainly made of bronze. One of his main works is the equestrian statue of King George of Saxony, unveiled in 1911 in Döbeln . The equestrian statue was sacrificed in 1942 as a metal donation for armaments purposes and melted down. Another equestrian statue of this king was made for Dresden. Due to the chronic shortage of non-ferrous metals, it was not scrapped until 1952. In memory of the the First World War fallen soldiers of the Hussars Crown Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (2nd Saxon) No. In 19 , the city of Grimma received an impressive war memorial, which shows a hussar standing next to his horse and looking mournfully at the ground. This monument has been preserved.

Fred Voelckerling was a member of the German Association of Artists from 1906 . Voelckerling died on January 27, 1945 in the Weißer Hirsch district of Dresden . He was buried in the Weißer Hirsch forest cemetery.

Works (selection)

  • 1901: bronze polo player , 36 cm, private collection
  • around 1910: Military show jumper , bronze, 46 cm, private collection
  • 1911: Equestrian statue of King Georg on the Niedermarkt in Döbeln, melted down in 1942, remnants removed after 1945
  • 1913 (?): Armindenkmal, Werneuchen
  • 1922: Hussar memorial , bronze, dismantled in 1945, re-erected in 1990 on Leipziger Strasse in Grimma
  • 1928: Equestrian statue of King George in uniform, Stauffenbergallee , Dresden; Removed and melted down by the new rulers in 1952
  • Memorial plaque for Hessian dragoons, Bolzenbach

literature

Web links

Commons : Fred Voelckerling  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archive of the Dresden University of Fine Arts.
  2. ↑ a b doebeln-enthaben.de
  3. ↑ s. Voelckerling, Fred, sculptor, Dresden-A., Münchenerstrasse 6 / o. in the list of members in the catalog of the 3rd German Artists Association , Weimar 1906. p. 58 online (accessed on May 26, 2016)
  4. ↑ See doebeln-in-alten-ansichten.de .
  5. ↑ Ernst Sigismund: Voelckerling, Fred . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 34 : Urliens – Vzal . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1940, p. 468-469 .
personal data
SURNAME Voelckerling, Fred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Voelckerling, Hans Karl Alfred (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1945
Place of death Dresden