Gottlieb Elster

Gottlieb Elster (born October 8, 1867 in Greene , † December 6, 1917 in Braunschweig ) was a German sculptor and medalist .

Life

Elster studied from 1884 at the Technical University of Braunschweig , from 1888 to 1891 at the Munich Art Academy and then in Berlin. In Berlin he worked with Otto Lessing , Fritz Schaper , Begas and until 1905 with Adolf Brütt . He also had his own studio. From 1910, as Brütts successor, he was head of the Weimar Sculpture School and its ore foundry under the direction of master foundry Friedrich Köhler. Elster moved to Braunschweig in 1913, where he lived and worked until his death.

Works

Works within Weimar

In Weimar , Elster has preserved: the monument cast by Koehler for Johannes Daniel Falk (1768–1826), the fountain figure of the “tax collector ” (1911), known as the Aktenmännchenbrunnen , which was in the courtyard of the Yellow Palace , and that of Elster and Copy of the Euphrosyne monument (sandstone, 1912) made by his students . In Berlin, the mother cast in the so-called arts and crafts school building in Weimar, now known as Caritas, has been preserved.

Works outside Weimar

In 1899, Gottlieb Elster designed the 34.5 cm high so-called “dandelion vase” in blue-green glaze with brown sprinkles, which was manufactured by the Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin under the model number 6273 .

On the market square of Rheinsberg , at the entrance to the castle park, the original of the bronze statue of Crown Prince Friedrich , later King Friedrich the Great, completed by Elster in 1903, has stood again since 1995 .

In 1909 Elster received one of 5 prizes in the competition for the Fritz Reuter monument in Stavenhagen , but Wilhelm Wandschneider received the order for the monument, which was unveiled in 1911 .

The bronze monument to Heinrich von Kleist, unveiled in 1910, stands in the park at the Gertraudenkirche in Frankfurt (Oder) .

In Goslar, a hunter kneeling on a pedestal commemorates his comrades from the Hanoverian Jägerbataillon No. 10. The memorial was created in collaboration with the sculptor Hans Lehmann-Borges .

The seated figure of Queen Luise was unveiled around 1911 in Trianon Park in Berlin-Weißensee .

In 1911, the community of Weißensee donated the bronze casting " Caritas " to the infant and children's hospital (Hansastrasse 178-180) for its foundation. With the closure of the children's hospital on January 1, 1997 and the uncertain future use of the site, Caritas threatened to become a victim of vandalism. At the endeavor of the Weißenseer Heimatfreunde eV association , the sculpture was stored as a precaution. On June 21, 2004, the bronze cast was set up next to the Gottfried Forck House on the Stephanus Foundation site (Albertinenstrasse 20–23) in Berlin-Weißensee. On June 24, 2004, the anniversary of the Stephanus Foundation, Caritas was inaugurated with a ceremony.

gallery

• Works by Gottlieb Elster
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  The copy of the Euphrosyne monument in the Grand Ducal Park of Weimar , donated by Marie von Wildenbruch , 1912

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  Heinrich von Kleist monument in Frankfurt (Oder)

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  Mournful people on the grave monument in Laehr's private cemetery in Schönower Park

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  Monument to Crown Prince Friedrich in front of Rheinsberg Castle

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  Caritas on the grounds of the Stephanus Foundation in Berlin-Weißensee (originally on the grounds of the children's hospital in Hansastraße)

literature

• Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon. 19th and 20th centuries. Hanover 1996, p. 161.

Web links

Commons : Gottlieb Elster  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ L. Forrer: Biographical Dictionary of Medallists . Elster, Prof. Gottlieb. Volume VII. Spink & Son Ltd, London 1923, pp. 251 .
2. ↑ www.bildhauerei-in-berlin.de: Mutter ( Memento of the original from March 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Löwenzahn-Vase, KPM Berlin, Gottlieb Elster 1899. (No longer available online.) In: classiqs.com. Archived from the original on August 28, 2014 ; accessed on August 28, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Memorial of Crown Prince Friedrich ( Memento of the original from May 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 4, 2012