Heinrich Möller (sculptor)

Heinrich Hermann Christian Möller (born August 20, 1835 in Altona , † September 11, 1929 in Linda ) was a German sculptor.

Life

Victory Column, Altona

Uwe Jens Lornsen Monument, Rendsburg

Möller grew up in poor circumstances in his native Altona and had to contribute to the family's livelihood as a child. Among other things, he worked in various factories, for a rope maker and in a riding stable, before finally taking a position as a servant to Consul Dr. Hesse took over. He became Möller's sponsor and made it possible for him to attend school for the first time at the age of 15, initially at the municipal evening school and later at the secondary school in Nienburg . With the desire to become a sculptor, Möller studied at the Munich Academy and then at the Dresden Academy , since 1862 with Johannes Schilling . He went on study trips to England, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Sweden and Italy before returning to Dresden and working as a sculptor there.

Möller attracted attention at exhibitions in Dresden and Hamburg with an early work that was created in Schilling's studio - the sculpture Faun and Satyr, striking cymbals . It was also shown at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1867 . In addition to other small-format, humorous genre figures in bronze, he mainly created monuments and sculptural reliefs.

List of works (selection)

1875 Altona: Victory Column
1876 Bad Neuenahr: Kreuzberg monument
1877 Altona: Vogler monument
1877 Hamburg: Koopmann memorial
1877 Altona: Stuhlmann memorial
1879 Rendsburg: Lornsen monument (Schleswig-Holstein state monument)
1880 Altona: Victory Monument
1899 Bremen: Bremen Town Musicians (in the Bremen Ratskeller )

literature

Möller, Heinrich. In: Ernst Rump : Lexicon of visual artists in Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area , Otto Bröcker & Co., Hamburg 1912, p. 90. ( digitized version )
Wilhelm Junius: Möller, Heinrich Herm. Christian . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 6-7 .
Möller, Heinrich Herm. Christian. In: Berend Harke Feddersen: Schleswig-Holsteinisches Künstler-Lexikon with the collaboration of Lilianne Grams and Frauke Gloyer, Nordfriisk Instituut , Bredstedt 1984, ISBN 3-88007-124-1 , p. 121.
Maike Bruhns : Möller, Heinrich. In: The new rump. Lexicon of the visual artists of Hamburg . Ed .: Rump family. Revised new edition of Ernst Rump's dictionary. Supplemented and revised by Maike Bruhns, Wachholtz, Neumünster 2013, ISBN 978-3-529-02792-5 , p. 304.
Reiner Lohse: Professor Heinrich Möller - A Master of Plastic Art , BoD, Norderstedt 2016, ISBN 978-3-7412-9748-9

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Illustrated newspaper . No. 1279. Weber, Leipzig 1868, p. 16 ( online ).
^ Möller, Heinrich Hermann. In: The spiritual Germany at the end of the XIX. Century. Volume 1. Röder, Berlin 1898.

personal data
SURNAME	Möller, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Möller, Heinrich Hermann Christian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	August 20, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH	Altona
DATE OF DEATH	September 11, 1929
Place of death	Linda

[iz-1] Illustrated newspaper . No. 1279. Weber, Leipzig 1868, p. 16 ( online ).

[2] Möller, Heinrich Hermann. In: The spiritual Germany at the end of the XIX. Century. Volume 1. Röder, Berlin 1898.