Gustav Herold
Gustav Karl Martin Herold (born February 23, 1839 in Liestal , Canton of Basel-Land , † February 4, 1927 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a Swiss sculptor .
Life
Born in Switzerland, Gustav Herold, son of Frankfurt parents, completed an apprenticeship in an ivory carving workshop in Darmstadt since 1854 . As a result, Herold turned to sculpture. From 1858 to 1860 he was a student at the Städel Art Institute under Johann Nepomuk Zwerger , then from 1862 to 1866 at the Vienna Art Academy . From 1867 to 1872 he lived alternately in Munich and Frankfurt am Main, and from 1872 permanently in Frankfurt. He had his first studio in Frankfurt in the Stone House ; later he ran studios in the Deutschordenshaus in Sachsenhausen, in the Villa Hallgarten and in the Bockenheimer Landstrasse, near Gudden in the Kettenhofweg, on the Rechneigraben and in the Saalburgallee.
Herold created ivory carvings for King Ludwig II of Bavaria in Munich, and numerous sculptures for public buildings in Frankfurt, including the characters tragedy, comedy, dance for the opera house there , grave monuments and a number of portrait busts, including a bronze statuette by Ernst Haeckel in Jena. The most famous work in Frankfurt is the Atlas group of figures on the entrance portal of Frankfurt Central Station .
Gustav Herold died in Frankfurt am Main in 1927 at the age of almost 88.
After his death
Gustav Herold was buried in the Frankfurt main cemetery (Won XII GG 80a).
In 2016 a collective of artists and entrepreneurs came together to create a monument for Herold. The memorial is to be erected on Kaiserstraße in Frankfurt's station district . The memorial consists of a sandstone facade of Frankfurt Central Station and a bronze bust placed on the stone.
Works (selection)
- Tomb and grave site of Sebastian De Neufville (1545–1609) in the Peterskirchhof in Frankfurt am Main. (Herald reconstructed the tomb)
- 1908 - Jena, Berggasse, Ernst Haeckel - Bust in the garden of the "Villa Medusa"
- 1883 - Roof crowning with a mighty Bavaria sculpture made of zinc, which stands on a lion quadriga, on the Bavaria-Haus Schillerstraße corner Schillerplatz, which was destroyed in the war. The builders were the Krause brothers from Mainz, and their commissioned architect was Simon Ravenstein .
- 1886/87 - The group of figures "Atlas, carrying the globe, supported by steam and electricity", weighing 4.5 tons, 6.5 m high. Atlas is Titan (Greek god), giant in human form. For 125 years it has been enthroned at Frankfurt Central Station, which was built from 1883 to 1888 as the largest railway station in Europe at the time. May 1st, 1889, the Atlas group was hoisted onto the roof in a 45-minute procedure. The work was refurbished in 2014 by Deutsche Bahn for EUR 200,000.
- 1878 - Six sculptures above the entrance area of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange . One pair of figures each for the post office with post horn and mail bag, for trade, for shipping with a ship, for the railroad with a locomotive, for industry and a pair of figures for telegraphy.
- 1875–1880 - Sculptures from the Alte Oper Frankfurt . Next to the panther quadriga by the sculptor Franz Krüger (1849–1912) from 1899, who replaced the Apollo figure destroyed in the war, there is his sculpture of Recha, the adopted daughter of Nathan, the last work by Gotthold from 1779 above the loggia Ephraim Lessing . On the right is his sculpture of Donna Isabella, Princess of Messina, from the tragedy The Bride of Messina or the Enemy Brothers from 1803 by Friedrich Schiller . On the south side of the building there are sculptures of poetry (woman with lyre), dance (woman with tambourine), comedy (woman with mask) and tragedy (woman with mask) standing in niches.
- His sculptures in the semicircular gable of the residential and commercial building Opernplatz 6 built in 1881 by the architect Franz Jacob Schmitt (1842, Worms - 1922, Darmstadt).
- 1902 - sandstone figures "cellar master" and "winemaker", above the entrance of the Ratskeller des Römers , Frankfurt am Main
- Some portrait busts by Conrad Binding , Hermine Claar-Delia , Lazarus Geiger , Rudolf Gudden , Charles Hallgarten , Paul von Hindenburg , Thessa Klinkhammer , Ingo Krauss, Gustav Lucae , Luise Freifrau von Rothschild , Hermann Schramm , Heinrich Siesmayer , Adam Strohecker, Carl Vogt and Richard Wagner as well as by Friedrich Stoltze
literature
- Frankfurt Biography , Volume One A – L, Kramer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, ISBN 3-7829-0444-3 , p. 321
- German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 4, KG Saur Verlag, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-23163-6 , p. 635.
- The Städelschule Frankfurt am Main from 1817 to 1995. Hermann Schmidt Verlag, Mainz 1999, ISBN 978-3874393331 , pp. 86, 129
- Of heads and bodies: Frankfurt sculpture from the Städel. Museum Giersch , Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt 2006, ISBN 978-3935283113 , p. 116.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Frankfurt biography . First volume AL. Kramer, 1994, ISBN 3-7829-0444-3 , pp. 321 .
- ↑ Frankfurt main cemetery: Well-known graves in Gewann XII. Retrieved July 11, 2016 .
- ^ Frankfurter Neue Presse: Denksteine zum Erinnern | Frankfurter Neue Presse. In: www.fnp.de. Retrieved May 14, 2016 .
- ^ Frankfurter Neue Presse: Bust of Gustav Herold: Character head for Kaiserstraße | Frankfurter Neue Presse. In: www.fnp.de. Retrieved May 14, 2016 .
- ^ Frankfurter Neue Presse: Atlas group at the main train station: The Titan is resurrected | Frankfurter Neue Presse. (No longer available online.) In: www.fnp.de. Archived from the original on May 14, 2016 ; accessed on May 14, 2016 . 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.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Herold, Gustav |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Herold, Gustav Karl Martin (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 23, 1839 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Liestal , Canton Basel-Land |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 4, 1927 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |