Georg Herting

1934: ID photo of Georg Herting as a member of the Association of German Sculptors

Georg Herting (born September 28, 1872 in Linden ; † January 22, 1951 in Hanover ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Citizen's letter from the city council of Linden (1897)

Certificate of appointment as associate professor at the Technical University of Braunschweig (1911)

Georg Herting studied with Wilhelm von Rümann at the Munich Art Academy and from 1896 lived as a freelance sculptor in Linden. Although he was born in Linden, it was not until 1897 that he received citizenship of the former rural community of Linden, which had meanwhile become an independent town .

In 1906 he became a member of the Hanover Art Association .

Herting taught as a lecturer for ornament and figure modeling at the Technical University of Braunschweig , on March 3, 1911 Duke Johann Albrecht zu Mecklenburg appointed him as regent of the Duchy of Braunschweig as associate professor of the university. In 1914 he was awarded the Prussian Red Eagle Order, 4th class.

Many of his sculptures and pictures still shape the cityscape of Hanover today. In the 1930s and 1940s, his style closely approached the prevailing art under National Socialism .

Georg Herting's grave is located in the Ricklingen city cemetery in Hanover.

Works (incomplete)

• around 1902: Relief frieze "Main Moments in the Development of Mankind" at the Provincial Museum in Hanover (with Karl Gundelach and Georg Küsthardt )
• around 1910: "Pretzel men" at the Bahlsen administration building in Hanover, Podbielskistraße (see Goldener Leibnitzkeks )
• 1910: Monument to Julius Trip (Muschelkalk) in the Maschpark in Hanover
• 1912: Hansel and Gretel fountain (terracotta figures) in Hanover, Lister Straße, at the back of the Bahlsen building (under monument protection)
  The figures were renewed in 1956 by Kreuzmann .
• 1914: Duve fountain in Hanover, originally on Neustädter Markt, since 1952 on Leibnizufer (under monument protection)
• 1922: Figures of workers on the Commerzbank building in Hanover, Theaterstrasse 11 (under monument protection)
• 1935: Egestorff monument in Hanover-Linden-Süd
• 1941: Worker statue at the entrance to the Hanomag factory in Hannover-Linden, Göttinger Strasse 14 (under protection of monuments)

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  Pretzel men with the Leibniz biscuit

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  Trip memorial in the Maschpark

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  Hansel and Gretel fountain on Lister Strasse

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  Duve fountain on the Leibnizufer

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  Egestorff Monument

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  Worker statue at the entrance to Hanomag

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  with Karl Ross : Tomb for the banker Ferdinand Peretz in the Engesohder cemetery from 1903

See also

• List of members of the Hannoversche Künstlerverein
• List of architectural monuments in Hanover

literature

• Herting, Georg . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 16 : Hansen – Heubach . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1923, p. 557 .
• Ludwig Zerull : Art without a roof. Sculptures and objects in the cityscape of Hanover. Schäfer, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-88746-278-5 , p. 142.
• Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Herting, Georg. In: Hanover. Art and culture lexicon . passim .
• Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Herting, Georg. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 166 and ö. (excerpt, books.google.de ).
• Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Herting, Georg. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 292.

Web links

Commons : Georg Herting  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rainer Ertel: Hansel and Gretel fountain. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover . P. 248.