Georg Ferdinand Howaldt

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Georg Howaldt
(1802-1883)
Grave inscription on the Magnifriedhof in Braunschweig
The first Brunswick Quadriga with Brunonia around 1862/63 in front of the south entrance of the foundry, later Okerburg . Georg Ferdinand Howaldt in the middle in front of it.

Georg Ferdinand Howaldt (born April 8, 1802 in Braunschweig ; † January 19, 1883 there ) was a German goldsmith , sculptor and ore caster .

Life

Georg Howaldt was born in Braunschweig as the son of the Braunschweig goldsmith David Ferdinand Howaldt from Breslau . After attending the orphanage school, he first learned the goldsmith's trade from his father from 1816 to 1821 and then went on to train for six years (including with the silversmith Häberlein in Nuremberg ). In Braunschweig he had already practiced modeling alongside his apprenticeship and, not least because of the friendship he had with Jacob Daniel Burgschmiet in Nuremberg , he turned his work to sculpture and art casting . In 1828 he was succeeded Burgschmiets teacher of modeling at the Polytechnic School in Nuremberg, 1836 teacher of modeling and 1863 professor at the Collegium Carolinum , today's Technical University . Adolf Breymann was also one of his students . In 1874 Georg Howaldt was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Henry the Lion .

Georg Howaldt married Barbara Hechinger in Nuremberg on March 20, 1832 and had five children with her, including the sculptor August, who died before him, as the third child . He died on January 19, 1883 in Braunschweig. His grave in the Magnifriedhof in the immediate vicinity of the Lessing grave has been preserved. Christian Daniel Rauch considered him the best ore caster of his time. This not least because of his knowledge and his skills in creating large monuments in driving work , a craft method that was first described again in modern times by Benvenuto Cellini .

Act

From the remnants of his foundry and workshop between Howaldtstrasse and Hochstrasse , which was first run by his son Hermann Howaldt († December 2, 1891) and then by long-term employee Paul Rinckleben until the end of the business in 1906 and again by his from 1903 Grandson Ferdinand Howaldt (born October 9, 1874) continued as a co-partner of Rinckleben in the artist family until the end of 1906, monumental works that have remained formative for the Braunschweig cityscape emerged: The Lessing Monument (1853) and the Braunschweiger Quadriga with Brunonia on the Braunschweig Castle , both based on designs by Ernst Rietschel . During the manufacture of the Quadriga, he demonstrated his outstanding skill and technique as a copper driver twice when he had to manufacture it again after the fire in Braunschweig Castle. Rietschel's orders gave him the breakthrough and recognition that made it possible to build his own foundry building. The foundry building was sold to Schlaraffia in 1912 and still serves as a club house, known in Braunschweig as the Okerburg .

In view of the reconstruction of the Braunschweig City Palace, the city increasingly remembers its important ore caster. In Brunswick Museum , a finger of Brunonia was recently rediscovered in which even a handwritten note George Howaldts was located, from which emerged about which finger it is. But his work goes far beyond Braunschweig: one of the first monuments that on September 14, 1869 Central Park of New York was erected honoring Alexander von Humboldt . It was made by Georg Howaldt & Sohn in Braunschweig based on a design by Gustav Bläser .

Works (selection)

  • The Black Duke in Braunschweig

  • Heinrichsbrunnen in Braunschweig

  • Lessing monument in Braunschweig

  • Freiligrath monument and grave in Bad Cannstatt

literature

See also

  • Further namesake of the Howaldt family

Web links

Commons : Georg Ferdinand Howaldt  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Herman Riegel: Georg Howaldt and the art of making sculptures in copper. In: Art history lectures and essays. Westermann, Braunschweig 1877, pp 346-366 ( digitale-sammlungen.de ).
personal data
SURNAME Howaldt, Georg Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German goldsmith, sculptor and ore caster
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH January 19, 1883
Place of death Braunschweig