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Heinrich Ludwig August Hengst (born February 20, 1796 in Hanover ; † May 18, 1868 there ) was a German sculptor .

Life

The sculpture of the goddess of victory Victoria, derived from Roman mythology, on the Waterloo Column in Hanover was created by the sculptor August Hengst and executed by the coppersmiths Conrad and Franz Beckmann as well as various "assistants". The artist's signature can be found in a fold of the garment near the left foot of the sculpture, where a separately attached plaque provides information about further details.

family

August Hengst was the uncle of the sculptor Ferdinand Hartzer and teacher of the sculptor Heinrich Kümmel . He was married to Marianne Molthan, daughter of the court gilders and sculptor Johann Wilhelm Ludolph Molthan and sister of the architect Justus Heinrich Jacob Molthan .

Career

In 1820, together with the court mason Ernst Ludwig Taentzel , Hengst created the alliance coat of arms at the Old Palace for Duke Adolph Friedrich, Duke of Cambridge and his wife, Auguste of Hesse , Duchess of Cambridge and Vice Queen in the Kingdom of Hanover .

For the Waterloo Column, which was built between 1826 and 1832 according to plans by Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves , Hengst designed the Victoria statue, which was worked out by the coppersmiths Conrad and Franz Beckmann and “Gehülfen”.

In 1842, Hengst became one of the founders of the Hanover Art Association .

Around 1850 he delivered the draft for Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's statue on the balcony of the opera house in Hanover .

literature

See also

Web links

Commons : August Hengst  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Hugo Thielen: HENGST ... (see literature)
  2. ↑ Thomas Dann : The royal splendid apartments in Hanover's Leineschloß: Investigations into the sequence of rooms in the first half of the 19th century (= sources and representations on the history of Lower Saxony , Volume 120), Hanover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung und Verlag, 2000, ISBN 978-3- 7752-5808-1 and ISBN 3-7752-5808-6 , p. 29; limited preview in Google Book search
  3. ↑ Helmut Knocke: Taentzel, Tän (t) zel, (1) Ernst Ludwig, in: Stadtlexikon Hannover, p. 616
  4. ↑ Hans Werner Dannowski : "Then we'll go to Hanover". Views and impressions from a city , with eight collages by Siegfried Neuenhausen , Hanover: Schlüter, 2000, ISBN 3-87706-569-4 , p. 30; online through google books
  5. ↑ Compare, for example, this image document at Commons
  6. ↑ Helmut Knocke, Hugo Thielen: Stallion ... (see literature)
personal data
SURNAME Stallion, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stallion, Heinrich Ludwig August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1796
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1868
Place of death Hanover