Hermann Gladenbeck
Carl Gustav Hermann Gladenbeck (born January 24, 1827 in Berlin ; † November 11, 1918 in Friedrichshagen ) was a German bronze caster of the 19th century.
Life
Hermann Gladenbeck was born in Berlin as the son of Charlotte Luise (née Thomas) and Johann Gladenbeck (surgeon) . He completed an apprenticeship in the Royal Casthouse with Christoph Heinrich Fischer . In 1851 Gladenbeck went into business for himself as a sculptor and rented a former locksmith's shop at Johannisstrasse 3 for this purpose. He received his first important commission the following year from Christian Daniel Rauch , who ordered three miniatures of the equestrian statue of Frederick the Great , which he had created and which had been erected on Unter den Linden in 1851 . Gladenbeck von Rauch received another, much larger order in 1856. Rauch placed the order for the casting of the Kant statue for Königsberg (Prussia) . Since Gladenbeck's previous foundry was not big enough for this order, the Königliche Bildgießerei in Münzstrasse 10/12 in Berlin was made available as a workshop. After the son Oscar Gladenbeck became a partner in the foundry, it operated as H. Gladenbeck & Sohn on April 1, 1878 . After the lease expired on October 1, 1887, Gladenbeck relocated the foundry to Friedrichshagen near Berlin (since 2001 in the Berlin district of Treptow-Köpenick ) to what was then Wilhelmstrasse (since 1951 Peter-Hille-Strasse ) 62. The company started operating on April 6, 1888 after the merger with the company of his eldest son bronze and zinc cast goods factory Oscar Gladenbeck as Aktiengesellschaft Gladenbeck, vorm. Gladenbeck & Son .
The bronze foundry produced numerous important statues and monuments as well as large and small sculptures, in addition to the Kant monument for Königsberg, for example the Victoria of the Berlin Victory Column based on a design by Friedrich Drake . In Europe's largest brick castle in Malbork (Marienburg) Poland, the bronze statues of the four grand masters of Prussia (based on a design by Rudolf Simering, 1872) are placed in the large inner courtyard. The explanatory board refers to the Hermann Gladenbeck foundry from Berlin-Friedrichshagen (1876). Given the date, it is questionable at which foundry site these statues were made.
Hermann Noack learned from him and worked as a foreman on the casting of the Kaiser Wilhelm National Monument . In 1892 Hermann Gladenbeck was dismissed from the management of the AG together with his sons Oscar (1851-1921) and Alfred (1858-1912). He then withdrew from business life.
His younger sons Walter (1866–1945) and Paul (1869–1947), employed sculptors in the stock corporation, now went their own professional ways. They left the company and, like their brother Oscar ( Oscar Gladenbeck & Co. , later Oscar Gladenbeck GmbH ), supported by their father Hermann, founded their own company, Gladenbeck's Broncegiesserei, owner Walter & Paul Gladenbeck . After 1892 there were three Gladenbeck foundries in Friedrichshagen that were now producing in competition with one another.
Angels in the Luisenfriedhof II
One-sided cast plate (plaque, medal ) 430 × 600 mm by Hermann Theodor Simon . Max Lange plant in Göttingen from 1919
The four Grand Masters of Prussia (Hermann von Salza, Siegfried von Feuchtwangen, Winrych von Kniprode, Albrecht Hohenzollern) in the courtyard of the Marienburg (Malbork, Poland)
Memorial plaque on the Evangelical Cemetery in Berlin-Friedrichshagen
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literature
- Gladenbeck, Hermann . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 14 : Giddens-Gress . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1921, p. 220 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Dietrich Nummert : Bronze works of art from a master hand. The art caster Hermann Gladenbeck . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 11, 1998, ISSN 0944-5560 , p. 59-61 ( luise-berlin.de ).
- Inge Kießhauer, Rolf Kießhauer: Bronzenes for Berlin. On the trail of monuments and sculptures from Gladenbeck's bronze foundries, Berlin and Friedrichshagen . In: Friedrichshagener Hefte , No. 38–40, Berlin 2001
- Inge Kießhauer, Rolf Kießhauer: The Gladenbeckschen bronze foundries / A company history / 1851–1926 . In: Friedrichshagener Hefte , No. 65, Berlin
- Inge Kießhauer, Rolf Kießhauer: Bronzes for foreign countries from the Gladenbeck foundries . In: Friedrichshagener Hefte , No. 66, Berlin 2007
- Sabine Hierath: Gladenbeck, Hermann . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 55, Saur, Munich a. a. 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-22795-0 , p. 508.
Web links
- Original mold models that have been preserved are owned by the Herweg bronze foundry
Individual evidence
- ↑ Inge Kießhauer, Rolf Kießhauer: Bronzenes for Berlin. On the trail of monuments and sculptures from Gladenbeck's bronze foundries, Berlin and Friedrichshagen (= Friedrichshagener Hefte No. 38–40). Berlin 2001, p. 14.
- ↑ Münzstrasse 12 . In: Allgemeiner Wohnungs-Anzeiger together with address and business manual for Berlin , 1870, part 2, p. 181. “Royal building; Gladenbeck, sculptor ”.
- ↑ Aktien-Gesellschaft vorm. H. Gladenbeck & Sohn image foundry . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1918, part 1, p. 17. “Friedrichshagen, Wilhelmstr. 62 ".
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gladenbeck, Hermann |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gladenbeck, Carl Gustav Hermann (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German bronze caster |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 24, 1827 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 11, 1918 |
| Place of death | Friedrichshagen |