Friedrich Wield

Friedrich Ernst Martin Wield (born March 15, 1880 in Hamburg , † June 10, 1940 in Hamburg) was a German sculptor .

Life

Friedrich Wield was the son of the master carpenter Christian Wield and his wife Johanna Wield, nee Deest. He grew up with his older brother Paul Wield in Hamburg's Neustadt district . In 1896 he finished the elementary and trade school and completed an apprenticeship as a sculptor with Walter Zehle in Hamburg. After studying in Paris , he studied from 1900 for three years at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Wilhelm von Ruemann.

From 1905 to 1914 he stayed in Paris and moved into a studio in Rue Vercingétorix, among other things he was in contact with Auguste Rodin . In 1908 he made a trip to Italy, in 1909 he exhibited at the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts . At the beginning of the First World War , Wield had to leave France, he went to Winterthur in Switzerland and lived with Hahnlosers in the Villa Flora . After being deferred from German military service for health reasons, he did military service from 1915 to 1918.

In the Bergedorf cemetery is the memorial, which was dedicated to the victims of the First World War in 1923 with the relief "The Crouching". After the Second World War , the inscription "1939 - 1945" was added to the right side of the base.

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In 1919 he was one of the founding members of the Hamburg Secession and was its first chairman until 1922. He was also a member of the Hamburg Artists' Association from 1832 . In 1922 he left the Secession and joined the German Association of Artists and the Hamburg Art Association . Wield received numerous commissions, including from the city of Hamburg, to create sculptures and monuments , such as the memorial for the fallen soldiers of the First World War in the Bergedorf cemetery or the memorial for the physicist Heinrich Hertz the "ether wave" on behalf of the Nordic Rundfunk AG (NORAG). After the National Socialists seized power , he did not receive the payments to which he was entitled for the Hertz monument and thus ran into financial difficulties. Wield had been able to finish the plaster mold, but the bronze cast never took place.

Friedrich Wield died in 1940 through suicide because he suffered too much from the Nazi regime's total restriction of his creative freedom . He was buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery (grave location G19-378 / 379 - see Chapter 3). Fritz Schumacher gave the funeral speech. Wield created the tombstone in 1938.

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Aether wave for Heinrich Hertz, 1994–2016 in the "Eichenpark"

The long-time friend Lore Kegel was entrusted with the care of Wield's estate. She had rescued Wield's work from her burning house in 1943. Today the estate is in the care of her son Boris Kegel-Konietzko . It is to his merit as Wield's estate administrator and heir that the "Ätherwelle", the forgotten Heinrich Hertz monument, was completed by the sculptor Manfred Sihle-Wissel on behalf of the Hamburg cultural authority and in 1994 in the public space in the "Eichenpark" near the Alster was set up.

On September 30, 2016, at the suggestion of Boris Kegel-Konietzko, with the help of Hendrik Hertz and the company "Arnold Hertz & Co", as well as the NDR and the cultural authority , the "Ätherwelle" memorial was moved to the place favored in the thirties The area of ​​the NDR-Funkhaus was moved in front of "Haus 20" Rothenbaumchaussee 122 / corner of Werderstraße.

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Works

Friedrich Wield: Stephan Kempe on the facade of the Bugenhagen Church in Hamburg-Barmbek

Friedrich Wield: The starting point, Hamburg, Ufer- / Wagnerstraße

• Memorial stone to the victims , Bergedorf cemetery , Hamburg (1923).
• "Senate plaque" in memory of Aby Warburg in the entrance area of ​​the planetarium (1929)
• Bust of the Mayor of Melle . (Installed in the University of Hamburg in 1929. )
• Two outdoor sculptures for the Hamburg Bugenhagen Church (1927–1929).
• Sculpture The starter. Girls school Uferstrasse in Hamburg.
• Monumental figure mother earth. (1930). (Destroyed.)
• Order for the realization of the Heinrich Hertz monument Ätherwelle . (Before 1933. Since 1994 in the Hamburg Eichenpark .)

Wield was an artist specializing in sculpture who created numerous portrait busts of Hamburg personalities.

literature

• Hugo Sieker : Sculptor Wield 1880–1940. A memorial book. Hans Christians, Hamburg 1975.
• Roland Jaeger and Cornelius Steckner: Zinnober art scene Hamburg from 1919 to 1933. Scene, Hamburg 1983.
• Maike Bruhns: Art in Crisis. Volume 2: Artist Lexicon Hamburg 1933–1945. Dölling and Galitz, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-933374-95-2 .

Web links

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

• Literature by and about Friedrich Wield in the catalog of the German National Library
• Friedrich Wield ( Memento from May 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) - Project of the vocational school Uferstrasse Hamburg
• Biography of Friedrich Wield from hamburgerpersoenitäten.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ According to the page no longer available , search in web archives: birth certificate . (Quoted in the project of the Vocational School Uferstraße Hamburg. Accessed on April 4, 2011.) ADBK and DNB, however, name 1883 as the year of birth.
2. ^ Matriculation book , accessed on April 4, 2011.
3. ^ Farewell letter to Hugo Sieker dated May 31, 1940
4. ^ Hugo Sieker : Sculptor Wield 1880–1940. A memorial book. Hans Christians, Hamburg 1975 - pages 71-76
5. ↑ Katy Trick: Heinrich Hertz Monument Hamburg: Monument with a moving history . hamburg.de. Retrieved April 10, 2019.
6. ↑ Wields Den Vipers ( Memento of the original from March 1, 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. on the website of the Förderkreis Friedhof Bergedorf e. V. Retrieved April 3, 2011. 
7. ↑ Illustration alongside other works by Wield