Hans Guradze

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Signature by Hans Guradze, around 1900.

Hans Guradze (born December 5, 1861 in Kotulin , Kingdom of Prussia , † 1922 ) was a German sculptor and graphic artist .

Life

Guradze studied first at the Dresden Academy , then from 1890 to 1892 at the teaching establishment of the Berlin-Charlottenburg Museum of Applied Arts under Otto Lessing . He was also a student of Max Baumbach , Alexander Calandrelli and Alexander Tondeur in Berlin, where he continued to work as an artist.

In 1892 he showed his statue of Kaiser Wilhelm II as a Prussian Ulan at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition and in 1898 in the Munich Glass Palace .

Guradze established himself as a specialist in small bronzes, which often showed horse motifs, by around 1900. Some of his works were handcrafted by the fine art foundry Gladenbeck , others by the art foundry Bräunlich and Langlotz .

Works (selection)

  • Amazon on horse
  • Winter troika with Napoleon on the run after the failed Russian campaign
  • Happy lovers in a troika
  • Young man on horseback
  • Portrait of the racehorse Gay Paris
  • Snarling tiger
  • Roaring tens
  • Cossacks on horseback at full gallop
  • Galloping horse with cart and jockey
  • At the potion
  • Craftsman on an anvil

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hans Guradze . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 66, de Gruyter, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-598-23033-2 , p. 42.
  2. ↑ Guradze, Hans. In: Emmanuel Bénézit : Dictionary of Artists . ISBN 978-0-19977-378-7 , 2006.
  3. ↑ Hans Guradze . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 347 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  4. ↑ Objects from July 17, 2018. In: Bares für Rares , ZDF .
  5. ↑ Hans Guradze. 1861 Kotulin - 1922. Art foundry Bräunlich and Langlotz. In: auctioart.de
personal data
SURNAME Guradze, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Kotulin , Kingdom of Prussia
DATE OF DEATH 1922