Friedrich Hecht (sculptor)

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Friedrich August Richard Hecht (born June 27, 1865 in Dresden ; † November 16, 1915 there ) was a German sculptor and painter.

Christ in Gethsemane at the Christ Church in Dresden-Strehlen

Life

Friedrich Hecht was artistically very gifted and had been working in Johannes Schilling's master workshop since 1883 . He studied at the Saxon Art Academy in Dresden from 1885 to 1891 and was a master student of Johannes Schilling. In 1887 he was awarded the large silver medal and in 1888 the large gold medal of the art academy. For his artistic achievements he was honored with a 2-year academic travel grant in 1891 and toured Italy until 1893. He mainly lived and worked in Rome . After his return to Dresden he worked as a teacher at the art school in Dresden and at the private Dresden art school Kops . He then worked as a freelance sculptor in Dresden and lived at Holbeinstrasse 117 and later at Alemannenstrasse 12. A number of Dresden and Saxon church buildings still bear witness to his church work. He also created artistic tombs, which are still preserved today. His Nazarene type of Christ is found very often in his expressive works. In addition to sculpture, he turned to artistic painting and created important oil paintings. Numerous stairwell paintings (lost in the war) with high artistic value in various villas and exclusive residential buildings, such as on Johann-Georg-Allee in Dresden, enriched his versatile artistic work. He loved to create life-size sculptures, but he also designed small sculptures , portrait busts and plaques . The Dresden City Museum owns a few of the latter . He was also a member of the Dresden Association of Visual Artists .

After an illness, Hecht died on November 16, 1915 in Dresden and was buried in the Johannisfriedhof . The grave is decorated with the tombstone he designed himself in the form of a pillar tomb. Hecht calls himself a German "sculptor". The Sächsischer Kunstverein dedicated a memorial exhibition to him in 1915 from the artist's estate.

Holy Spirit Church in Dresden, facade detail
Dresden University Hospital: bronze relief Two doctors on the bed of a sick girl

Works (selection)

  • 1891 to 1893: Figure The blind flower girl Nydis (Bulwer) , and the statuette Paris , David , longing during his stay in Rome.
  • 1899: Grave monument in sandstone, for Köhler , Eliasfriedhof Dresden.
  • 1904: Bismarck medallion made of bronze, Friedenspark Crimmitschau.
  • 1904: Bronze statue of Christ in Gethsemane behind the Christ Church in Dresden- Strehlen
  • Figures Johannes and Elias and a Christ medallion for the Holy Spirit Church in Dresden- Blasewitz
  • Oil painting: Easter Sunday , private property.
  • Oil painting: Bavarian girl , half-length portrait in costume, oil on wood.
  • 1906: Oil painting: Lake landscape with boats and ships , in front right next to the boat, on the left near the bank a rowing boat, on the other bank steep coast.
  • 1908: Grave monument, for gallery director Karl Ludwig Theodor Graff , Dresden Weißen Hirsch
  • Sandstone figures, two angels for the church in Ostritz
  • 1910: Bronze relief: Depicting two important Dresden pediatricians, Richard Klemens Förster and his son Friedrich Richard Förster. Dresden University Hospital.
  • Figures of Jesus as a friend of the children and the sick , conversion of Paul , Luther's posting of theses for the Luther Church in Meißen
  • Figure Christ on the cross , cemetery chapel in Werdau in Saxony.
  • Bronze bust of the Dresden benefactor Johann Georg Ehrlich in the Nazareth Church in Seidnitz .
  • Figures of devotion and ideal form for the Pauluskirche Plauen
  • 1910: Grave monument in bronze, for Näumann , Alten Annenfriedhof Dresden
  • 1910: Grave monument in bronze for Friedrich Richard Förster , important pediatrician in Dresden, Alten Annenfriedhof Dresden
  • Three relief heads: Melanchthon , Johann Georg Ehrlich and Valentin Ernst Löscher at the main portal of the Ehrlich Foundation Church in Dresden ( loss of the war ).
  • 1911: Friedrich Meyer relief memorial for the St. Marien Church in Zwickau .

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personal data
SURNAME Hecht, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hecht, Friedrich August Richard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH November 16, 1915
Place of death Dresden