Heinz Hoffmeister (sculptor)
Heinz Hoffmeister (born June 24, 1851 in Saarlouis , † March 4, 1894 in Berlin-Grunewald ) was a German sculptor , draftsman, painter and writer.
Live and act
Heinz Hoffmeister, who grew up in Saarlouis in Prussia, began training as a sculptor in the studio of the brothers Carl and Robert Cauer in Bad Kreuznach . He then switched to August Wittig's sculpting class at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , but a few months later he had to begin his military service in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/1871. Hoffmeister came back from this war as an officer and decorated with the Iron Cross and now continued his studies at the Berlin Art Academy with Albert Wolff .
From 1873 Hoffmann decided to stay permanently in Berlin, where he now set up his main residence and workshop. Nevertheless, he was drawn to near and far abroad for study purposes and he made several trips through Spain , North Africa and the Orient . Hoffmeister spent a lot of time mainly on Capri , where he stayed as a regular guest in the artist's villa Albergo Pagano and was also involved in the design of the murals there.
After Hoffmeister first made himself known in his early years through smaller portraits and sculptures, he later created a number of partly monumental figures and groups, which stylistically are influenced by classicism and their treatment of forms often strongly influenced by naturalism . In the years that followed, under his direction, numerous important monuments, tombs, busts, architectural sculptures and medals were created for many cities in what was then Prussia. In between, however, he also appeared again and again as a painter, draftsman and writer of travel reports and fairy tales.
Works (selection)
Monuments and sculptures
- Marble statue of General Robert Januarius von Frankenberg , Cologne Melaten Cemetery , 1875
- Whistling Faun , bronze sculpture, around 1880
- Bust of Louis Fréderic Jacques Ravené , around 1880
- Colossal busts of Friedrich Graf von Wrangel and August von Goeben in the Ruhmeshalle of the Zeughaus zu Berlin , before 1885
- Teasing , sculpture, 1886
- Statues for the western Angerbrunnen in Erfurt, 1887–1890 - Architect: Heinrich Stöckhardt . Stylistically a mixture of neo-renaissance and early baroque as well as forms of the Pergamene baroque
- David Hansemann memorial , Aachen , 1888
- Ganymede on Zeus ' eagle , sculpture, 1889
- Moses Mendelssohn memorial , fountain, Dessau, 1890 - Architect: Heinrich Stöckhardt. It was the only public memorial that was erected for a Jew in Germany at the time. In 1933 it was removed from the train station and transported to the Israelite cemetery on Steneschen Strasse. There it wascompletely destroyedon November 9, 1938, during the Reichskristallnacht .
- Marble bust of a Capres woman, Berlin National Gallery , before 1890
- Portrait busts of the imperial family, including Wilhelm I. , Friedrich III. , Wilhelm II. And his wife Auguste Viktoria , undated
- Busts of the poet Wilhelm Müller , the composer Ludwig van Beethoven , the Duke Ernst II of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha , undated
- Fence with panther , undated
- Caritas and Hofnarr , undated
- Wall painting in Albergo Pagano on Capri, undated
Publications
- War sketchbook 1870/71, o.A.
- From Capri to Jerusalem, Berlin 1887
- Through southern Spain to Morocco, Berlin 1888
- The old raven, mood pictures, Berlin 1891
literature
- Hoffmeister, Heinz . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . 6th edition. Volume 9, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1907, pp. 427–428 .
- Hoffmeister, Heinz . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 17 : Heubel – Hubard . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1924, p. 286-287 .
Web links
- Short biography based on Thieme-Becker ( memento from March 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) at Bildindex.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Whistling Faun
- ↑ Detailed description and pictures of Angerbrunnen, Erfurt ( Memento from July 11, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Capres woman
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Hoffmeister, Heinz |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hoffmeister, Heinrich |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor, draftsman, painter and writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 24, 1851 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Saarlouis |
DATE OF DEATH | March 4, 1894 |
Place of death | Berlin-Grunewald |