Gustav Blaeser
Gustav Hermann Blaeser (also wind instruments) (born May 9, 1813 in Düsseldorf , † April 20, 1874 in Cannstatt ) was a German sculptor of the 19th century . Blaeser belonged to the smoking school of the Berlin Sculpture School .
Life
Blaeser, older brother of the painter Julius Blaeser , received his training between 1834 and 1843 in the studio of Christian Daniel Rauch in Berlin and at the local Academy of the Arts . Here he was a drawing student of Egidius Mengelberg and Christoph Stephan, who instructed him in wood carving. During the eleven years that he worked at Rauch, he was involved in all of its major works.
In 1844/1845 he went to Rome, from where, however, the order to model one of the eight groups of castle bridges called him back to Berlin.
The group he designed in 1845 represents the moment when the warrior falls out to fight under the protection of Pallas Athenes ; it is described in Meyer's Konversations-Lexikon of 1888 as the most beautiful and most perfect in composition in the series and marks his breakthrough as a recognized artist .
He also provided numerous busts, portrait statuettes, medallions as well as popular genre-like representations; All of these works are characterized by a fresh conception of nature, combined with an antique sense of form.
He is buried in the cemetery of the Dorotheenstadt and Friedrichswerder communities in Berlin-Mitte.
Works
- before 1848: life-size bronze figure of a blacksmith on the water tower of the Borsigsche Maschinenbau-Anstalt at the Oranienburger Tor in Berlin
- 1850: Paint stick for Carl Hilgers , ebony and mahogany
- 1853: Monument to Mayor August Wilhelm Francke in Magdeburg , bronze cast by Georg Ferdinand Howaldt
- 1861/1863: Equestrian statue of King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia for the Cathedral Bridge in Cologne
- 1862: Tomb for Pierre Louis Ravené in the French cemetery in Berlin
- 1869: Monument in honor of Alexander von Humboldt for Central Park in New York , executed by Georg Ferdinand Howaldt
- 1872: Bust of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel on Hegelplatz in Berlin-Mitte
- Still Friedrich Wilhelm IV. From Carrara marble in front of the Orangerie castle in Potsdam
- Colossal monument with a bronze equestrian statue of King Friedrich Wilhelm III. von Prussia on the Heumarkt in Cologne
Blaeser did not see the completion of the monument, in July 1874 (contract signed in August 1874) the completion of the work was entrusted to the Berlin sculptors Alexander Calandrelli and Rudolf Schweinitz .
and undated:
- Colossal statue of the Evangelist Matthew for Helsinki Cathedral
- Prophet Daniel for the palace dome in Berlin
- Borussia for the New Museum in Berlin (destroyed)
- Sandstone figures of David, Solomon and Charlemagne for the Dreikönigstor at the Friedenskirche in Potsdam
- Hermes in marble by Dante , Petrarca , Tasso and Ariost for the Charlottenhof Palace in Potsdam
- Statue of hospitality in the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin
- "The warrior falling out to fight under the protection of Pallas Athenes " on the Schloßbrücke in Berlin
- Terracotta reliefs with allegories of architecture, sculpture, painting, poetry, strength, justice, moderation and wisdom at the Triumphal Gate at the foot of the Mühlenberg in Potsdam
literature
- Rochus von Liliencron : wind instruments, Gustav Hermann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 693 f.
- Michael Puls: Gustav Hermann Blaeser. On the life and work of a Berlin sculptor . with catalog raisonné of the sculptural works. Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-930633-06-X .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Iris Brenner: Cologne Monuments 1871–1918. Aspects of bourgeois culture between art and politics . In: Werner Schäfke (Ed.): Publications of the Cologne City Museum . tape 5 . Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-927396-92-3 , p. 317 .
- ↑ Malstab Carl Hilgers (1818-1890) , the portal website duesseldorf.de , accessed on July 31, 2014
Web links
- Literature by and about Gustav Blaeser in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Blaeser, Gustav |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Blaeser, Gustav Hermann (full name); Wind instruments, Gustav |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 9, 1813 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 20, 1874 |
| Place of death | Cannstatt |