Friedrich Volck

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Friedrich Volck , also Fritz Volck , in the United States Frederick Volck , (born April 27, 1832 in Augsburg , † August 16, 1891 in Radegundis near Augsburg) was a German-American sculptor.

Life

Volck was the sixth of 13 children of Andreas Volck (1800–1888). His father ran a distillery and vinegar factory. The dentist, painter and caricaturist Adalbert J. Volck was an older brother; the theologian Wilhelm Volck a younger brother.

Volck came to the United States as a journeyman cooper. He went to his brother Adalbert J. Volck in Baltimore and attended classes at the Maryland Institute College of Art, where he received a silver medal in 1860 for his sculpture The Last Mohican . At the beginning of the Civil War , he went to Virginia and volunteered in the Southern Army.

He became known through numerous portrait busts of American politicians and military. His signed and dated small busts are still present on the American art market today. The bust of Jefferson Davis served as a model for the design of 10-cents stamp of the Confederate States of America (CSA) . In May 1863, Volck took the death mask from the Confederate Army General Thomas Jonathan Jackson ( Stonewall Jackson ) and was commissioned to create an equestrian memorial for the general in Richmond (Virginia) . The order was canceled due to financing problems, even if Adalbert Volck donated two paintings to Lee for financing and Friedrich Volck was able to have a model cast by Wilhelm Pelargus in Stuttgart in 1867 . Volck donated the model to the Virginia Military Institute in 1870 , in whose museum Lee on Traveler is shown today.

Volck returned to Germany in the course of the capitulation of the southern states in 1865 and worked first in Nuremberg , from 1868 in Munich , from 1880 in Stuttgart and then again in his hometown Augsburg.

Works

  • Confederate States postage stamp with the head of Jefferson Davis after a bust of Volck

  • Confederate Memorial, Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore

  • Poe grave monument at its inauguration

literature

  • Friedrich Müller, Karl Klunzinger , Adolf Friedrich Seubert : The artists of all times and peoples or the lives and works of the most famous builders, sculptors, painters, engravers, form cutters, lithographers etc. from the earliest art epochs to the present day. Volume 4: Supplements, Stuttgart: Ebner & Seubert 1870, p. 440
  • John Letcher : To the descendants, in the great North-West, of the Scotch-Irish settlers of the Valley of Virginia: In July, 1863, an association was formed at Richmond, Va. ... for the purpose of procuring a colossal equestrian statue in bronze of the late General Thomas J. Jackson, to be placed at the Virginia Military Institute, at Lexington ...: A contract was then made with A. Frederic Volck ...: The statue ... is now complete ... and ready to be shipped when the balance due thereon is paid. ... , Jackson Statue Committee, Lexington (Virginia) 1873
  • Thieme-Becker : General Lexicon of Fine Artists , Volume 34, Leipzig 1940, p. 518

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Genealogy at the Merkel Foundation, Nuremberg
  2. ↑ Artists of all times and peoples (lit.)
  3. ^ The book of the exhibition: Thirteenth annual exhibition of the Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts. Baltimore 1860, p. 185
  4. ↑ It is located in the Stonewell Jackson House in Lexington, Virginia .
  5. ↑ so Thieme-Becker with reference to information from descendants in Germany around 1930; the execution on Monument Avenue in Richmond was created in 1919 by Frederick William Sievers
  6. ↑ Artists of all times and peoples (lit.)
  7. ^ Keith E. Gibson: Virginia Military Institute. Arcadia Publishing 2010 ISBN 9780738586465 , p. 64 (with ill.)
  8. ^ Peabody Art Collection
  9. ^ Poe's Memorial Grave
personal data
SURNAME Volck, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Volck, Fritz; Volck, Frederick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH August 16, 1891
Place of death Radegundis near Augsburg