Friedrich Christian Glume

Glume at work

Friedrich Christian Glume (born March 25, 1714 in Berlin ; † April 6, 1752 ibid) was a Prussian sculptor at the time of Frederick the Great . He is considered one of the most important sculptors in Potsdam and the Frederician Rococo .

family

Friedrich Christian Glume's brother Carl Philipp (1724–1776) was also a sculptor. Her father was the Schlüter -Students Johann Georg Glume (1679-1765), who at the tomb of the Potsdam Garrison Church cooperated and the monument to the Great Elector in Rathenow created. There is a Glumestrasse in Potsdam named after the Glume family of sculptors.

Works

• Bacchantes at Sanssouci Palace
• Sculptures of the horse tamers and groups of riders above the portals of the Marstall (now the Potsdam Film Museum )
• Obelisk portal in Potsdam
• The allegorical figures Caritas and Spes on the portal of the French Church in Potsdam
• Hermengruppe at the entrance of the ice cellar in Wustrau

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  Plaque

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  Horse groups at the stables

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  Architectural jewelry in Sanssouci

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  Figure to the right of the portal of the French Church

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  Herme at the ice cellar in Wustrau

literature

• Ekhart Berckenhagen:  Glume, Friedrich Christian. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 473 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Erich Köllmann: Friedrich Christian Glume: court sculptor of Frederick the Great, 1714–1752 . University, Berlin 1933 (dissertation; also: Weber, Leipzig 1936, 159 pages).

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