Friedrich Wilhelm Eugen Döll
Friedrich Wilhelm Eugen Döll (born October 8, 1750 in Veilsdorf near Hildburghausen , † March 30, 1816 in Gotha ) was a German sculptor .
Life
education
Friedrich Wilhelm Eugen Döll was born on October 8, 1750 in Veilsdorf near Hildburghausen as the son of the porcelain painter Johann Friedrich Döll. He initially learned from the sculptor Ney in Fulda. As a young sculptor, he spent the years 1770 to 1773 in Paris and Rome on the recommendation of Baron Friedrich Melchior Grimm on behalf of the Hereditary Prince Ernst of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (from 1772 Duke Ernst II ) . In Paris he received training from JA Houdon and after 14 months went to Rome. In Rome he trained under the guidance of Raphael Mengs and Johann Friedrich Reiffenstein .
Act
After his return, Friedrich Wilhelm Eugen Döll was appointed court sculptor in 1781 and received commissions mainly from the residences in Gotha, Anhalt-Dessau and Meiningen . Portrait busts, monuments and reliefs were created. In 1786 he became a professor and in 1787 he was given the supervision of the Gotha art monuments.
Döll also gave drawing lessons and woke u. a. the young Louise Seidler (who attended Sophie Ludolfine Stieler's secondary school for daughters in Gotha from 1800 to 1803 ) developed an interest in drawing.
Döll was buried in the old church in Gotha. His tombstone was still preserved in 1906, after which its trace is lost.
His son Friedrich Leopold Döll (1791-1856) was also a sculptor who u. a. created the monument to Ernst Wilhelm Arnoldi , which is now placed next to the main post office in Gotha.
Works
- Candelabra in Altenbergen
- Faith, love and hope in the main church in Lüneburg
- 22 main reliefs in stucco at the princely riding school in Dessau
- a life-size statue of Empress Catherine II , depicted as Minerva
- the same empress before whom a girl sacrifices on the altar
- Winckelmann's tomb in the Rotonda in Rome
- the busts of Sappho and Raphael Mengs
- the nine muses, bas-relief
- Gustav Adolf of Sweden on horseback, crowned with victory, bas-relief
- the life-size figures of Minerva, a muse and Hygieia
- the grave monuments of Countess von Einsiedel in Dresden and Duke Karl von Meiningen
- Monument to Gotthold Ephraim Lessing on the library in Wolfenbüttel
- Kepler's monument in Regensburg
- The Egyptian monument at the Schwanteich in Gotha
- Memorial to Christian August Geutebrück in Gotha
- Nymph fountain at Wilhelmsthal Palace near Eisenach (since 1797 in its original state)
literature
- Literature on Friedrich Wilhelm Döll in the GBV
- Literature by and about Friedrich Wilhelm Eugen Döll in the catalog of the German National Library
- August Beck: Döll, Friedrich Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 313.
- Bernhard Maaz: The wise man's smile. English influences in German portrait sculpture around 1800. Friedrich Wilhelm Eugen Doell and his Kaestner bust. In: Yearbook of the Berlin Museums , ISSN 0075-2207 , Volume 44 (2002), pp. 35-48.
- Petra Rau: Friedrich Wilhelm Doell (1750-1816). Life and work. Editura Mega, Cluj-Napoca 2003, ISBN 973-86505-2-6 . (also dissertation, University of Mainz, 2000.)
Web links
- The artist's work at Wilhelmsthal Castle
- Sculptor in Goethe's circle
- The Lessing monument in Wolfenbüttel
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans Butzmann : Lessing's monument in Wolfenbüttel . A prelude to the history of Lessing veneration, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek, 1982.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Döll, Friedrich Wilhelm Eugen |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Doell, Friedrich Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 8, 1750 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Veilsdorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 30, 1816 |
| Place of death | Gotha |