Friedrich Wilhelm Wolff (sculptor)

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Friedrich Wilhelm Wolff, 1871. Graphic by Hermann Scherenberg.
“Wild boar hunt” in the courtyard of the Grunewald hunting lodge

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)

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs. Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. p. 311.
personal data
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