Gustav Adolph Kietz

Gustav Adolph Kietz (born March 26, 1824 in Leipzig , † June 24, 1908 in Laubegast near Dresden ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Kietz was the younger brother of the portrait painter Ernst Benedikt Kietz . From 1841 he studied at the Dresden Art Academy . He was the most important student and assistant to Ernst Rietschel and worked in his studio in the Brühl garden pavilion in the execution of his main works (e.g. Lessing statue and Braunschweiger Quadriga ). Friedrich List's statue in Reutlingen was his first independent work in 1861. His life's work was characterized by extensive, expressive work. In 1864 he became an honorary member of the Dresden Art Academy, in 1873 he received an honorary doctorate (as Dr. phil. Hc ) from the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen .

Braunschweig :
- Lessing monument , Lessingplatz, bronze casting, executed by Georg Howaldt (1852)
- Quadriga with Brunonia , castle , copper drifting , carried out by Georg Howaldt (1863)
Weimar : Goethe-Schiller monument , Theaterplatz (1857)
Worms : Luther Monument , Lutherplatz, completion after Rietschel's death with the execution of the statues of Philipp Melanchthon , Jan Hus , Philipp von Hessen and the city figure of Augsburg (1868)

Bonn : Grave monument of the Wesendonck family (mourning genius), old cemetery (1883)
Dresden : Gustav Nieritz Memorial, Nieritzstrasse (1878)
Dresden: Julius Otto monument, An der Kreuzkirche , originally Georgplatz (1886, melted down in 1942, reconstructed in 2010)
Plauen : Julius Mosen bust, originally Postplatz, later Unterer Graben, bronze sculpture (1888)
Pulsnitz : Ernst Rietschel Memorial, Market Square (1890)
Reutlingen : Friedrich List monument, Karlstrasse, bronze casting, executed by Georg Howaldt (1863)
Stuttgart : Franz Schubert Monument, Berliner Platz, in front of the Liederhalle (1878)
Tübingen : Ludwig Uhland Monument, Place of the City of Monthey (1873)

Kietz, Gustav Adolph . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 20 : Kaufmann – Knilling . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 283-284 .
Nicholas Vazsonyi (Ed.): The Cambridge Wagner Encyclopedia . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2014, ISBN 978-1-107-00425-2 . ( limited preview of Google Books )

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