Friedrich Schierholz

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Friedrich Schierholz , also often Fritz Schierholz , (born April 27, 1840 in Frankfurt am Main ; † February 2, 1894 there ; full name: Johann Georg Friedrich Schierholz ) was a German sculptor .

Minerva fountain before 1944 and 2009 Minerva fountain before 1944 and 2009
Minerva fountain before 1944 and 2009

Live and act

Schierholz first visited the Städelsche Institut in Frankfurt, where he was assigned numerous smaller works as a student of Johann Nepomuk Zwerger (1796–1868). At the age of 18 he presented his first work Landung Lohengrins in 1858 and a little later modeled a bust of Beethoven made in marble and spread through numerous casts .

In 1859 he moved to Max von Widnmann's studio in Munich. There he created the relief Erlkönig with his daughters and two large sandstone statues as commissioned work for the National Museum. A planned stay in Rome failed and he returned to Frankfurt. Here he created decorative allegorical images such as play, dance, music and song in children's scenes (1869), created several statues for the cathedral and the new theater in Frankfurt and for a concert hall in Bad Nauheim . In 1887, Schierholz re-cast the figure of the Justitia, originally made of sandstone and now weathered, at the Fountain of Justice on Frankfurt's Römerberg and also copied the virtue reliefs and the siren statues. Friedrich Schierholz's grave is in the Frankfurt main cemetery .

Works in Frankfurt

Boettger bust Boettger bust
Boettger bust
  • Monument bust of the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer , in the Obermainanlage
  • Life-size bust of Arthur Schopenhauer, in the stairwell of the city library, destroyed in 1944
  • Arthur Schopenhauer's statue on the roof balustrade of the library
    The 260 cm high statue, along with seven other larger-than-life stone figures, was part of the facade decoration of the city library.
  • The bust of Rudolf Christian Böttger (1806–1881), which Schierholz made shortly after his death, can be seen on the building of the Physikalischer Verein on the Senckenberganlage right next to the entrance to the Senckenberg Museum .
  • Stoltze fountain with the bust of the Frankfurt local poet, 1981 to 2016 on Friedrich-Stoltze-Platz behind the Katharinenkirche . On a three-sided base with a relief of the " Frankofurtia " is an ornate round base with the poet's bust. The bust also served as a model for the new creation of the Friedrich Stoltze Prize .
  • Minerva fountain on the Römerberg
  • New cast of the statue and the entourage at the Fountain of Justice in Frankfurt am Main

literature

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Schierholz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Art in Public Space , accessed on February 25, 2013
  2. ↑ Location of the grave ( Memento of the original from July 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.frankfurter-hauptfriedhof.de
  3. ^ Richard Sier: Germany's spiritual heroes. Berlin undated (1903), p. 166 f.
  4. ↑ Schopenhauer Society
  5. ↑ Physikalischer Verein , accessed on February 25, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Schierholz, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schierholz, Johann Georg Friedrich (full name); Schierholz, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 1894
Place of death Frankfurt am Main