Heinrich Gerhardt

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Heinrich Gerhardt (born August 23, 1823 in Kassel ; † October 24, 1915 there ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Gerhardt, the son of a gardener, was initially supposed to take up his father's profession, but after attending the trade school he trained as a sculptor at the Kassel Art Academy . He followed his teacher there, Johann Werner Henschel , to Rome , which he reached on Christmas Eve 1844. As a German Roman , he stayed at home in the "Eternal City" until shortly before his death . Like many other German speakers, he joined the circle of artists around Johann Christian Reinhart . After Henschel's death in 1850, he moved into his apartment and studio on the second floor of the house at Passeggiata di Ripetta 34/35, which he shared with the painters Heinrich Dreber and Friedrich Gunkel and the sculptor Gustav Kaupert . He made friends in particular with Arnold Böcklin , Paul Heyse , Friedrich Preller the Younger and Emil Gottlieb Schuback . In the 1850s he received support from the Kassel Academy. His economic situation improved when he received a major commission from the Russian Grand Duchess Marie in 1860 .

In 1845 he was one of the founders of the German Artists' Association , which he served as chairman several times. In 1889 he became its honorary chairman. In 1895 he was accepted by the Accademia di San Luca . In the same year he received the title of Prussian professor after he had been appointed by the Berlin Academy in 1893 as its Roman representative and custodian of state scholarship holders. Even as the administrator of the German Reich belonging Serpentara , an oak grove in Olevano Romano , he made himself earned. Gerhardt was the builder and resident of a small refuge that, as Villa Serpentara, is now used by scholarship holders of the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo for living and working.

Gerhardt, who remained unmarried throughout his life, created a number of works in the classicism style , most of which are in Kassel as originals, casts and illustrations. He returned there when Italy's entry into World War I in 1915 forced him to leave his Roman homeland.

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SURNAME Gerhardt, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH Kassel , Electorate of Hesse
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 1915
Place of death Kassel , Electorate of Hesse