Friedrich Wilhelm Wolff (sculptor)
Friedrich Wilhelm Wolff (born April 6, 1816 in Fehrbellin , † May 30, 1887 in Berlin ; most commonly Wilhelm Wolff , full name: Franz Alexander Friedrich Wilhelm Wolff ) was a German sculptor and bronze caster . Animal representations are his specialty, he was often called Tier-Wolff .
Life
Wilhelm Wolff - son of a master tailor - completed an apprenticeship as a mechanical engineer at the Royal Iron Foundry in Berlin from 1830 to 1832 and then trained in foundry at the Royal Commercial Institute . Institute director Peter Beuth gave the young talent a scholarship for a study trip, which he u. a. led to Paris to Louis Claude Ferdinand Soyer (1785–1854) and to Munich to Johann Baptist Stiglmaier . Around 1838 Wolff then founded his own small foundry in Berlin, in which he also worked according to his own designs.
From the mid-1840s, Wolff increasingly turned to sculpture and finally gave up the foundry in 1850. He now devoted himself in particular to animal sculpture, which earned him the nickname Tier-Wolff among contemporaries and which were often made in different materials. King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. , Who ordered a bronze copy, became aware of the artist through the much-noticed group of animals, the Bulldog with two puppies . But some monuments, busts, figurative sculptures and plaques are also part of his work. Several of these works are in the holdings of the Nationalgalerie Berlin .
Wolff was represented at the exhibitions of the Prussian Academy of the Arts from 1839 and was appointed a member of the academy in 1865.
Friedrich Wilhelm Wolff died in Berlin in 1887 at the age of 71 and was buried in the St. Matthew Cemetery in Schöneberg . The grave has not been preserved.
Works (selection)
- 1845/1846: Bulldog with two puppies (bought by the Kunstverein Berlin), she- bear with cubs , gazelle ( Charlottenhof Palace ), buffalo fighting with two dogs , panther with prey
- 1846/1852: Animals as doctors (in the catalog of the academy exhibition also coming home from the pub )
- 1853: Draft for a memorial to Elector Joachim II. Hector for Berlin-Köpenick
- 1853: Eagle medallions on the Berlin Palace Bridge
- 1854: Monument with a bust of Johann Gottfried Herder in Mohrungen (lost in the war, renewed)
- around 1855: two griffins as gable acroteries at the Neues Museum Berlin
- around 1855: Deer attacked by two wolves
- 1858: Monument with a statue of Electress Luise Henriette of Oranien in Oranienburg
- 1860: Bacchante (in marble 1869)
- 1861: Wild boar hunt ( Grunewald hunting lodge )
- around 1869: eight Berlin bears for the Red City Hall of Berlin
- around 1870: various centerpieces for the Khedives of Egypt, Ismail Pascha (made in silver by the company Vollgold & Söhne , Berlin)
- 1872: Design for a monument to King Friedrich II for Marienburg (the order was received by Rudolf Siemering )
- 1872–1874: Group of lions in the Tiergarten Berlin (1876 replica for Philadelphia )
- Portrait busts:
- after 1871: Eagle sculptures as an ornament for various war memorials of the Franco-German War , a. a. in Dessau
Gazelle Charlottenhof Palace
Monument to Luise Henriette in Oranienburg
Group of lions in the Tiergarten Berlin
Group of lions in Philadelphia
literature
- Wolff, Wilhelm . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 36 : Wilhelmy-Zyzywi . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1947, p. 218 (incorrectly named there as the creator of the "Sachsenross" in Hanover ).
- Alfred Gotthold Meyer: Wolff, Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 44, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, pp. 56-58.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs. Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. p. 311.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Wolff, Friedrich Wilhelm |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wolff, Franz Alexander Friedrich Wilhelm (full name); Tier-Wolff (nickname) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 6, 1816 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Fehrbellin |
DATE OF DEATH | May 30, 1887 |
Place of death | Berlin |