Harro Magnussen
Harro Magnussen (born May 14, 1861 in Hamm near Hamburg; † November 3, 1908 in Grunewald near Berlin) was a German sculptor .
Life
As the son of the painter Christian Carl Magnussen , he received his first lessons in drawing, modeling and wood carving from his father. In 1882 Harro Magnussen began studying painting at the Munich Art Academy with Nikolaus Gysis , Gabriel von Hackl and Ludwig von Löfftz . Impressed by the works of the Berlin school of sculpture - particularly the neo-baroque of Reinhold Begas - he moved to Berlin in 1888 in the studio of Bega, where he remained for five years, among other things, the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial National cooperated. Self-employed since 1893, Magnussen took part in a number of competitions, but only with moderate success. In contrast, portrait busts shaped his work. His Bismarck bust of 1889 to have been sold ten years later, in more than 1,000 copies, mostly in plaster or bronze, but probably as electroforming by the WMF . In 1899, Magnussen attracted the attention of Kaiser Wilhelm II , who acquired a marble portrait of the dying Friedrich II and commissioned him with further designs for a statue of the king for the White Hall in the Berlin City Palace . With this reputation Magnussen suddenly became known to the public. His monument group for the Siegesallee Berlin brought him the Royal Crown Order IV class as an award .
Magnussen died in 1908 through suicide.
Services
Harro Magnussen had a pronounced gift for characterizing the people he modeled, which gave him a position that was respected among Berlin sculptors and the benevolence of the emperor. In an effort to do justice to reality in his works, however, he did not get beyond a certain "rigidity" in the method of representation.
Works
1889 | Bust of Otto von Bismarck |
1890 | “The philosopher von Sanssouci in his last hours”, draft (plaster), 1900 as a gift from the artist to the Invalidenhaus Berlin , another copy today in the inventory of the Sculpture Gallery Berlin, in marble see 1898 |
1892 | Bust of the poet Hermann Allmers (a bronze cast dated 1895 has been preserved in the Hamburger Kunsthalle since 1912 ) |
1892 | Bust of the painter Gustav Spangenberg , plaster, National Gallery Berlin |
1893 | Bust of Heinrich Seidel |
1894 | Bismarck monument in Groß-Lichterfelde near Berlin |
1894 | Bust of Kommerzienrat Veit, plaster, National Gallery Berlin |
1895 | Bust of Emin Pasha |
1895 | Bust of King Frederick II |
1897 | Bismarck Monument in Kiel (statue) |
1898 | Monument to the reformer Johannes Honterus at the parish church (" Black Church "?) In Kronstadt (Transylvania) |
1898 | “The philosopher of Sanssouci in his last hours”, marble, lost in the death room of Friedrich II in the Sanssouci Palace , later in the Hohenzollern Museum Berlin |
1898 | Bismarck statue in Jever |
1898 | Draft for a monument to Duke Friedrich of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenberg for Kiel |
1899 | Model for a colossal Bismarck monument on the Knivsberg (execution of the model by Adolf Brütt ) |
1899 | Statue of King Friedrich II "at the age of his accession to the throne" for the White Hall in the Berlin City Palace |
1899 | Miss Maria monument in Jever |
1900 | Monument group of Elector Joachim II on Siegesallee in Berlin-Tiergarten, partially preserved |
1901 | Bust of Bishop Matthias von Jagow (replica of the bust from the Siegesallee group) in colored marble for Kaiser Wilhelm II., Brandenburg Cathedral Museum |
1901/02 | Marble statues of Bismarck , Moltkes and Roons for the Upper Lusatian Hall of Fame in Görlitz , removed after 1945 (lost) |
1902 | Draft of a memorial for August Kekulé in Bonn |
1904 | Monument to Albrecht von Roon , preserved on a new base at the Großer Stern in Berlin-Tiergarten |
1904 | decorative plastic for Primkenau Castle |
1905 | Statue of Martin Luther above the portal of the Luther Church on Karpfangerstraße in Hamburg; Church destroyed in 1943/44; Still since 1966 next to the church St. Nikolai in Hamburg-Moorfleet |
1905 | Statue of Elector Joachim II for the interior of the Berlin Cathedral |
1906 | Statue of Kaiser Wilhelm I in Bonn, preserved on a new base |
1907 | Draft for a “monument to nature research” in Jena |
1908 | Model for a Hermann Balck fountain in Elbing (posthumously completed around 1910) |
Bust of Klaus Groth | |
Bust of Ernst Haeckel | |
Bust of the Judiciary Riesser | |
Monument to Hermann Allmers with a relief portrait in Rechtenfleth near Bremen | |
Statuette of Frederick the Great blowing the flute | |
Statuette of Frederick the Great on a walk | |
Statuette thirst for life | |
Monument to the sculptor Julius Moser in Görlitz, removed after 1945 | |
Waldersee monument in Hirschberg |
gallery
literature
- Magnussen, Harro . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 23 : Leitenstorfer – Mander . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1929, p. 565 .
- Peter Bloch , Sibylle Einholz , Jutta von Simson (eds.): Ethos & Pathos. The Berlin School of Sculpture 1786–1914. (Exhibition catalog) Berlin 1990.
- Peter Bloch, Waldemar Grzimek : The Berlin School of Sculpture in the nineteenth century. Classic Berlin. Berlin 1978. (new edition 1994)
- Uta Lehnert: The Kaiser and the Siegesallee. Réclame Royale. Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 1998.
- Bernhard Maaz (Ed.): National Gallery Berlin. The XIX. Century. Inventory catalog of the sculptures. Berlin 2006.
- Eckart Schörle: Harro Magnussen (1861–1908). A sculptor at the turn of the century, between adaptation and obstinacy. In: Nordelbingen , Volume 71, 2002. pp. 75-110.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Luther Monument at www.hamburger-reformation.de , accessed on October 13, 2017
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Magnussen, Harro |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 14, 1861 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg-Hamm |
DATE OF DEATH | November 3, 1908 |
Place of death | Grunewald |