Heinrich Epler
Carl Heinrich Epler (born August 5, 1846 in Königsberg in Franconia , † April 30, 1905 in Dresden ) was a German sculptor .
Life
Heinrich Epler came to Dresden in 1869 as a student of Johannes Schilling . Here he founded his own workshop two years later. From 1895 he was provisional teacher of the modeling class and from 1897 professor at the Dresden Art Academy . He lived in the Dresden district of Striesen in the house at Haydnstrasse 27. His grave is in the Johannisfriedhof in Tolkewitz .
Epler mainly created plastic architectural decorations on public buildings and tombs.
Works (selection)
- 1875: Figure "Polyhymnia" for the Semperoper in Dresden
- 1883: Tomb for General August Karl von Goeben in Koblenz
- 1893: Flagpoles on the main street in Dresden
- 1893: Christ the Redeemer on the west side of the Holy Spirit Church in Dresden-Blasewitz
- 1893: Bronze medallion on the monument to Wilhelm August Roth , Graf-Stauffenberg-Kaserne in Dresden
- 1893: Portrait medallion in bronze on the tomb for Richard Steche in the Kötzschenbroda churchyard
- 1894: Sculptures at the Dresden Art Academy and at the Ständehaus in Dresden
- 1894: Marble relief of a male angel with a lyre on the Mirsch (now: Grantz ) tomb at the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg
- 1900: Bronze relief of the altar (Lutheran Last Supper) in the Kreuzkirche in Dresden
- 1901: Still of the Theodor Körner memorial in Chemnitz
- 1902: Bronze sculpture "Two Mothers" on the Bürgerwiese in Dresden
Bronze relief on the Roth monument in Dresden
Detail of a flagpole
Tomb Steche in Kötzschenbroda
Mirsch (now Grantz ) tomb in Hamburg
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literature
- Ernst Sigismund : Epler, Heinrich . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 10 : Dubolon – Erlwein . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1914, p. 582-583 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
- City Lexicon Dresden A – Z. Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1994, ISBN 3-364-00300-9 , p.?.
- Art in public space. (Information brochure of the state capital Dresden) Dresden 1996.
Web links
Commons : Heinrich Epler - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ death survey. In: Dresden history sheets. No. 4, 1905, p. 68.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Epler, Heinrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Epler, Carl Heinrich (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 5, 1846 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Koenigsberg in Bavaria |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 30, 1905 |
| Place of death | Dresden |