Gustav Schmidt-Cassel
Gustav Schmidt-Cassel (born October 2, 1867 in Kassel , † 1954 in Berlin ) was a German sculptor .
Life
Gustav Schmidt-Cassel studied at the Berlin Art Academy under Ernst Herter , whose assistant he became and whose workshop he later took over. He made trips to Italy, Paris and Russia. He was a member of the Reich Association of German Artists and the Association of Berlin Artists .
Schmidt-Cassel showed his first sculptures at collective exhibitions in Berlin. In 1910 he received his first commission, a monumental equestrian statue of Peter the Great in Riga, Russia . He also created the monument to Emperor Friedrich III. on Boltzeplatz in front of the Kreisstandsehaus in Grätz (today Grodzisk Wielkopolski in Poland).
In the 1920s he created sculptures of exotic dancers in Art Deco style , which Schmidt-Cassel provided with detailed costumes. He made the models for a series of statuettes that were produced by Rosenthal & Maeder and their successors, Preiss & Kassler . At the exhibition 100 Years of Berlin Art of the Association of Berlin Artists 1929 he showed a plaster statue entitled Collapse .
Works (selection)
- Pierrette
- girl
- Monkey hugs cat , 1922
- Standing young woman with child in her arms
- dancer
- Youthful sun worshiper
- Egyptian temple dancer
- Standing young woman with a towel as a letter stand
- Woman with blossom
- Snake charmer
literature
- Schmidt-Kassel, Gustav. In: Willy Oskar Dreßler : Dressler's art manual . 9th edition. Volume 2, Berlin 1930, p. 893.
- Schmidtcassel, Gustav . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936, p. 171 .
- Victor Arwas : Art deco sculpture. Academy Editions, 1992, ISBN 1-85490-144-3 , p. 210.
- Alastair Duncan : Art Deco Complete. The Definitive Guide to the Decorative Arts of the 1920s and 1930s. Thames & Hudson, 2009, ISBN 978-0-500-23855-4 , p. 486.
- Alberto Shayo : Statuettes art deco period. Antique Collectors Club Art Books, 2016, ISBN 978-1-85149-824-6 , p. 101.
Web links
- Gustav Schmidt-Cassel (German, born 1867). In: artnet , with pictures of Schmidt-Cassel's work.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmidt-Cassel, Gustav |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schmidtcassel, Gustav; Schmidt-Kassel, Gustav; Schmidt, Gustav (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 2, 1867 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | kassel |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1954 |
| Place of death | Berlin |