Heinrich Wefing (artist)
Johann Heinrich Wefing (born September 12, 1854 in Eickum , East Westphalia, † July 6, 1920 in Berlin ) was a German sculptor .
Life
Heinrich Wefing studied from 1871 at the Berlin Art Academy with the history painter Karl Gottfried Pfannschmidt , as well as the sculptors Albert Wolff and Friedrich Drake . From 1887 he worked as an “urban” specialist teacher for modeling and applied arts at an unspecified Berlin technical school. In 1907 Wefing was awarded the title of professor . As a victim of the severe flu epidemic and the starvation times after the war, he died in 1920 at the age of 66. He was buried in the Old Twelve Apostles Cemetery in Berlin-Schöneberg .
Create
Several works by Wefing, such as For example, the relief "Angels making music" have been copied many times and modified in a wide variety of variations. The color design of the graphic according to the angel relief was certainly not done by himself, as he was color-blind . The Wittekind memorial in Herford was depicted on many objects of everyday use. In identical execution - rare for this time - the war memorials were made in Groß Neuendorf (Oder), in Neuhaus Castle (Westphalia) and in Ortelsburg (East Prussia). Before the First World War, Wefing completed the model of a Bodelschwingh memorial for Bethel , which was no longer implemented. Then the war robbed him of all opportunities for artistic creation; he was only able to work as a teacher.
Works
- 1876–1879: War memorial 1864, 1866 and 1870/71 in Herford, on the market square (unveiled on October 18, 1879; on the pedestal a Valkyrie carrying a fallen warrior to Walhalla )
- 1880: Relief of Wittekind's baptism in the Protestant collegiate church in Enger
- 1880: Hagar relief for the Cathedral Candidate Foundation in Berlin
- 1880: Fries Pied Piper from Hameln (privately owned)
- 1884: Bronze statuette Major from the East (42 cm, auction sale 1999)
- 1891: Child bust , shown at the international art exhibition in Berlin
- 1893: Marble relief playing angels or singing angels for Empress Auguste Viktoria
- 1893: War memorial 1870/71 on the market square in Ortelsburg (East Prussia) (on the front of the base a Kaiser Wilhelm I relief medallion, on the base the statue of an advancing infantryman with a flag held high)
- 1895: Kaiser Wilhelm I statue in Gardelegen , on the market square
- 1896: Statue of Christ in the Bethanien Deaconess Hospital in Berlin
- 1897: War memorial 1870/71 in Groß Neuendorf (Oderbruch) (lost around 1950)
- 1899: Wittekindbrunnen in Herford (melted down in 1942, 1959 copy by Walter Kruse on the preserved base)
- 1900: Plaster bust of Otto Weddigen , exhibited at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition in 1900
- 1900: Double statue of Kaiser Wilhelm I and Friedrich III. in Sorau (Niederlausitz), on the promenade at Wilhelmplatz (before the end of WWII, dismantled by French prisoners of war from the Heinkel works)
- 1902: Bismarck coat of arms (made of copper with inscription) and Bismarck relief (in bronze) on the Bismarck tower in Porta Westfalica
- 1902: Monument to the Great Elector in Herford, on the station square (statue in copper drifting, unveiled on September 26, 1902, dismantled for armament purposes in 1942)
- 1903: Statue of Duke Widukind in Enger (melted down in 1942, plaster cast available)
- 1903: War memorial 1870/71 in Neuhaus Castle (a statue of a charging standard bearer on the pedestal)
- 1903: Memorial to Christian Friedrich Koch in Mohrin (Neumark)
- 1904: Monument to King Friedrich II. As colonizer of the Oderbruch in Neutrebbin (destroyed in 1953, reconstructed in 1994 by a donation and based on images from Wefing's granddaughter Maria Barkhof by the sculptor Roland Rother )
- 1905: Equipment of the Protestant church in Grätz (Province of Posen)
- 1905: Statue of Kaiser Wilhelm I in Wildberg
- 1905: Baptismal angel made of sandstone and two relief tones "musical angels" on the gallery parapet above the entrance in the church of the Oberlinhaus in Babelsberg
- 1905: Bust of Georges Cuvier for the State Library in Mexico City
- 1905: Bronze statue by Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch for a bank building in Berlin
- 1905: Bust of the City School Board Dr. Karl Gerstenberg in the Friedrichs Realgymnasium in Berlin-Kreuzberg
- 1907: Bronze statue of Count Ernst Ernst in the palace garden in Detmold
- 1907: Bronze plaque on the Jahnstein in Herford
- 1909: Grafschaftsdenkmal in Jöllenbeck near Bielefeld (in the vernacular "Adlerdenkmal", in memory of the 300-year membership of the County of Ravensberg in Brandenburg-Prussia)
- 1911: Kaiser Wilhelm I monument in (Essen) Königssteele (statue, on an existing base as a replacement for a weathered sandstone figure)
- before 1913: Relief dinner of Belshazzar for the Great Berlin Art Exhibition (bought by the Prussian state, exhibited around 1912 in the City Museum in Danzig )
- 1913: Roonstein as a memorial for Albrecht von Roon in Herford-Laar
Jahnstein in Herford
Monument to King Friedrich II in Neutrebbin
Gravestone of the pianist and music teacher Wilhelmine Marstrand in the Ohlsdorfer Friedhof in Hamburg
"Angels making music" (as printmaking)
"Two Emperor Monument" in Sorau
Baptism in the church of the Oberlinhaus in Babelsberg
County monument in Jöllenbeck
Emergency money from the city of Herford with a graphic of the Wittekind fountain (1920)
Awards
- 1903: Award of the Prussian Crown Order III. class
- 1905: Awarding of a decorative needle (with a picture of his tools) by Empress Auguste Viktoria (for furnishing the Oberlinhaus in Nowawes, donated by the Empress)
- 1906: Awarded the Prussian Order of the Red Eagle IV class (for the monument to Kaiser Wilhelm I in Wildberg)
Exhibitions (catalogs)
- Exhibition catalog of the Great Berlin Art Exhibition 1883
- Exhibition catalog of the International Art Exhibition Berlin 1891
- Wolfgang Krogel, Regine Krull, Ina Hellriegel: Remembering and forgetting. The history of the Widukind monuments from Heinrich Wefing 1882 to the present day. (Text reader for the exhibition) Enger 1996.
- Herford and Enger Museum
literature
- Wefing, Heinrich . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 35 : Libra-Wilhelmson . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1942, p. 248 .
- Hans von Reinfels, Richard Wrede (ed.): The spiritual Berlin. An encyclopedia of the intellectual life of Berlin. Volume 1, Storm, Berlin 1897, p. 559.
- Max Martersteig (ed.): Almanac for fine arts and applied arts. JA Stargardt, Berlin 1901.
- Friedrich Jansa: German visual artists in words and pictures. Leipzig 1912, p. 631 f.
- Willy Oskar Dressler (ed.): Dreßler's art yearbook . 7th year 1913, p. 928.
- Peter Bloch, Sibylle Einholz , Jutta von Simson (eds.): Ethos & Pathos. The Berlin School of Sculpture 1786–1914. Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-7861-1598-2 .
- Widukindmuseum Enger (ed.): Widukind monuments from Heinrich Wefing 1882 to today. Narrow 1996.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Catalog of the Great Berlin Art Exhibition. 1900, p. 104 (catalog number 1739: "Portrait bust of Mr. Otto Weddigen, plaster" Textarchiv - Internet Archive )
- ↑ The rare two emperors in Sorau. In: Märkischer Bote. ( maerkischer-bote.de ), accessed on August 27, 2019.
- ↑ Bismarck Tower Porta Westfalica on bismarcktuerme.de , accessed on August 10, 2017
- ↑ Monuments to Arms. Tour to Engeraner monuments on Sunday. In: Tageblatt für Enger und Spenge from September 10, 2005 ( hiergeblieben.de ), accessed on August 10, 2017.
- ^ Mohrin's story ( Memento from April 16, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Kazimiera Kalita-Skwirzyńska: Moryn. Urzad Miejski (w Moryniu), Szczecin 1997, ISBN 83-86334-32-0 .
- ^ History of the Oberlinhaus , accessed on August 10, 2017
- ↑ Jahnstein at www.herford.de , accessed on August 10, 2017.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wefing, Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 12, 1854 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Eickum |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 6, 1920 |
| Place of death | Berlin |