Heinrich Berges

Heinrich Wilhelm Berges (born August 2, 1805 in Berlin , † October 9, 1852 in Rome ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Heinrich Berges was a pupil of the drawing class at the Royal Prussian Academy of the Arts in Berlin from 1819 to 1820 and in the studio of the sculptor Christian Daniel Rauch , with whom he worked until his death in 1852. Together with August Kiss and Albert Wolff , he traveled to Bertel Thorvaldsen in Copenhagen in 1843 . In 1849 Berges became a member of the Berlin Art Academy. He died there on October 9, 1852 on a trip to Rome .

Works

Portrait thermal bath Peter Joseph Lenné in Sanssouci Park

Participation in the allegorical statues at the Neues Museum (north and south elevation) in Berlin
1834 Boy with Bird , in the Raffael Hall, Orangery Palace , Potsdam
In 1839 and 1842 at the Berlin Art Exhibition of the Royal Academy of the Arts , the figure girl with a parrot was shown . Gilded zinc cast , executed three times by Siméon Pierre Devaranne : each on a white-blue glass column in the Marly Gardens of Potsdam's Sanssouci Park, on Rose Island in Lake Starnberg and on Zarin Island in Kolonistskiy Park (Колонистский парк) in Peterhof
around 1840 boy with bird . Until 1929 on the pergola of the Charlottenhof Palace , Sanssouci Park , Potsdam. Probably no longer received
1842 boy as togiatus . Completed copy after a torso from the 1st century AD, Roman Baths , Sanssouci Park, Potsdam
1843 Copy of Mercury by Jean-Baptiste Pigalle , 1739. At the Great Fountain in Sanssouci Park , Potsdam
1846 seated statue of Agrippina d. J. Marble copy in the vestibule of Sanssouci Palace, Potsdam. Original from the 1st century in the National Museum of Naples
1847 portrait of herme Peter Joseph Lenné by Christian Daniel Rauch . Executed by Berges. Part of the hop garden in Park Sanssouci, Potsdam
1850 The expectation , in the Raffael Hall, Orangery Castle
1852 Bacchus teaching Cupid to drink in the Raffael Hall

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Berges - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Royal Academic University for the Fine Arts in Berlin: For the jubilee celebration 1696–1896 . Berlin, page 115. Digital , retrieved on December 18, 2015.

personal data
SURNAME	Berges, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Berges, Heinrich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	August 2, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	October 9, 1852
Place of death	Rome

[1] Royal Academic University for the Fine Arts in Berlin: For the jubilee celebration 1696–1896 . Berlin, page 115. Digital , retrieved on December 18, 2015.