Herman Wilhelm Bissen

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Herman Wilhelm Bissen

Herman Wilhelm Bissen (born October 13, 1798 in Schleswig , † March 10, 1868 in Copenhagen ) was a Danish sculptor .

Life

After Thorvaldsen, Hermann Wilhelm Bissen is the most important sculptor in Denmark. He grew up in Gelting and Schleswig. The painter Christian August Böhndel and two other Schleswig citizens made it possible for him to attend the Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen at the age of 18 , where he was the focus of a group of artists of German origin , including the North Frisian Harro Harding, Detlev Conrad Blunck from Breitenberg, Fritz Westphal from Schleswig , Detlef Martens from Kiel and Ernst Meyer, Johann Bravo and August Kraft from Altona. On September 28, 1824, Bissen and Ernst Meyer, whom he had persuaded in Munich to accompany him, arrived in Rome. His time in Italy spanned ten years as his fellowship was extended several times. As a student and assistant to Thorvadsen, he made rapid progress and his enthusiastic-romantic style changed to classicism . In 1827 he traveled to Sicily with Detlef Martens and his sculptor colleague Hermann Ernst Freund. In 1828 Bissen won the great gold medal of the art academy, which was linked to a multi-year Rome scholarship. Bissen lived in Rome from 1824 to 1834.

Bissen has now received its first significant orders. For the young Frankfurt businessman Franz von Berns he created a statue of Paris and for the businessman Conrad Hinrich Donner he created a Ceres in 1833/34.

In 1834 Bissen was back in Copenhagen, where he was appointed professor at the Copenhagen Art Academy in 1840, of which he was director from 1850 to 1863. In 1848 he prevailed against his competitor Jens Adolf Jerichau (1816-1883) and created the national monumental sculpture Den danske Landssoldat .

In 1862 he designed the monumental Idstedt lion in the Old Cemetery (Flensburg) . The lion was a symbol of the Danish victory over the Schleswig-Holsteiners in the battle of Idstedt (July 25/26, 1850). The German-speaking Dane Bissen and his art were still at the center of this German-Danish debate during his lifetime, but this did not prevent him from spending a longer period of his life in Germany.

Bissen married Emilie Hedvig Møller in 1836, who died in 1850. With her he had two sons, the sculptor Vilhelm Bissen, who continued Bissen's studio, and the landscape painter Rudolf Vissen. In 1852 he married Marie Cathrine Sonne. Bissen died of pneumonia in 1868.

Works

The Danish soldier
  • 1833/34: Ceres , marble, height 174.5 cm, Museumsberg Flensburg
  • 1853: The Danish soldier , monumental bronze statue, Fredericia .
  • 1856: Frederik VI. , Bronze statue, Frederiksberg .
  • 1862: Idstedt-Löwe , (Danish: Istedløven ), monumental bronze sculpture, Flensburg, moved to Berlin in 1868, in Copenhagen since May 1945, returned to the old location in Flensburg in 2011

literature

  • Harvard Rostrup: Billedhuggeren HW Bissen , 2 vols., Copenhagen 1945.
  • Haavard Rostrup: The sculptor HW Bissen as a draftsman. In: From the collections of the Ny Carlsberg Glyptothek. Copenhagen 1942, pp. 318-400.
  • Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer: HW Bissen , in: Ders .: Longing for Arcadia - Schleswig-Holstein Artists in Italy , Heide 2009, pp. 117–125. ISBN 978-3-8042-1284-8
  • Ursula Peters: artist life in Rome: Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844). The Danish sculptor and his German friends. Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg December 1, 1991 to March 1, 1992, Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum Schloß Gottorf, Schleswig March 22 to June 21, 1992. Publishing house of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg 1991.
  • Christian Degn : Bissen, Hermann Wilhelm. In: Olaf Klose (Ed.): Schleswig-Holsteinisches Biographisches Lexikon , Vol. 1, Neumünster: Wachholtz 1970, pp. 72–74.
  • Harald Tesan: Thorvaldsen and his sculpture school in Rome . Böhlau, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-412-14197-6 .

Web links

Commons : Herman Wilhelm Bissen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Herman Vilhelm Bissen | Gyldendal - The Danske store. Retrieved June 21, 2019 (Danish).
  2. ↑ Vilhelm Bissen | Gyldendal - The Danske store. Retrieved June 21, 2019 (Danish).
  3. ^ Kunstindeks Danmark & ​​Weilbachs kunstnerleksikon. Retrieved June 21, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Herman Wilhelm Bissen: Flensburger Löwe on Kunst @ SH , accessed on September 27, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Bite, Herman Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH Schleswig
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 1868
Place of death Copenhagen