Hermann Hosaeus

Hermann Kurt Hosaeus (born May 6, 1875 in Eisenach , † April 26, 1958 in Berlin ) was a German sculptor , medalist and university professor .

Life

War Memorial Reclining Warrior in Wanne-Eickel (1934)

Hermann Hosaeus attended the Dresden School of Applied Arts in 1891/1892 and the Nuremberg School of Applied Arts from 1892 to 1894 , with a focus on small-scale sculpture. From 1894 to 1896 he studied at the Munich Art Academy under Wilhelm von Rümann . In 1896 he moved to the Berlin Art Academy , where he continued his education under Ernst Herter , Gerhard Janensch and Peter Breuer . From 1898 to 1900 he was finally master student of Reinhold Begas .

At the Great Berlin Art Exhibition in 1899, he presented some works to the public for the first time. As his first piece, the small sculpture of riders on horseback was bought by the National Gallery Berlin for 1,200 marks. Hosaeus specialized in monuments, especially war memorials, but also became a busy artist as the designer of numerous medals . In 1908 he received a small gold medal at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition. He taught at the Faculty of Construction (Architecture Department) at the Technical University of Berlin from 1918, initially as a lecturer and from 1933 to 1945 as a full professor . During the time of National Socialism , Hosaeus was a member of the NSDAP .

Hermann Hosaeus is the father of the painter , graphic artist and ceramicist Lizzie Hosaeus (1910–1998). His son Klaus married the painter Ingeborg Leuthold .

estate

His estate consisting of biographical documents, correspondence , manuscripts and photographs is in the university archive of the Technical University of Berlin . It was made accessible by the archive .

Work (selection)

Statue of Vasco da Gama in Hamburg (1903)

Mozart Fountain in Dresden (1907)

Sleepers in the Schöneberg I cemetery in Berlin (1907)

Karl Alexander Monument in Eisenach (1909)

Lion Monument in front of the Rudelsburg (1926)

1899: rider on horseback , also after the fight (approx. 50 cm high bronze sculpture)

1902: Statue of Grand Duke Karl August of Saxe-Weimar in the fraternity monument near Eisenach

1903: Statue of Vasco da Gama on the Kornhausbrücke over the Zollkanal in Hamburg

1904: Mozart fountain in Dresden on the Bürgerwiese (three allegorical figures grace, cheerfulness, seriousness ; draft 1903–1904, installation and unveiling in the Mozart year 1907)

1907: Sleeper in artificial stone at the Schöneberg I cemetery in Berlin, the remains of a grave monument from the cleared part of the cemetery

1907: Statue of Grand Duke Karl Alexander in Weimar

1908: Burgundian noblewoman, porcelain figurine for the Schwarzburger workshops for porcelain art in Unterweißbach

1909: Statue of Grand Duke Karl Alexander in Eisenach, opposite the Wartburg driveway

1910: Competition design for a Bismarck national monument on the Elisenhöhe near Bingerbrück (together with the architect Wilhelm Brurein ; not awarded a prize)

1913: Bismarck bust for the hall of the Bismarck tower in Szczecin

1913: Medal for the 25th anniversary of the reign of Kaiser Wilhelm II. 1913, issued by the Royal Academy of the Arts, Berlin

1914: Schiffer's fountain made of sandstone in Berlin, Schleswiger Ufer, promenade, east of the Hansabrücke

1917: Iron bust of Bismarck for the Burger Bismarck Tower

Inscription: Him / who out of people's night / and need / founded / empire and imperial power / and / you / their heroic death / his gigantic work / accomplished

1916: Cast iron medal I gave gold for iron as a gold donation during the First World War

after 1918: Battalion war memorial of the teaching infantry battalion in Potsdam on the Brauhausberg in front of the infantry school

after 1918: War memorial of the 1st West Prussian Foot Artillery Regiment No. 11 at the Columbiadamm cemetery in Berlin-Tempelhof

after 1918: War memorial in Lebbin (Western Pomerania), with a figure of a seated infantryman

after 1918: War memorial in Dissen in the Teutoburg Forest , behind the church

after 1918: War memorial on Langeoog , by the church

after 1918: War memorial on Norderney , on the wall of the Napoleonsschanze

after 1918: war memorial in Osnabrück , at Bucksturm

after 1918: War memorial in Soest , in the cemetery

after 1918: war memorial in Sorau

after 1918: War memorial in Tecklenburg , with the high relief of a marching drummer

after 1918: War memorial in front of the Mieste village church (warrior with a broken sword and mourning woman)

after 1918: Regimental war memorial of the 2nd Magdeburg Infantry Regiment No. 27 "Prince Louis Ferdinand" in Halberstadt

Henneberg tomb in Görlitz

1919: Tomb of the publisher Reimar Hobbing (1874–1919), shell limestone stele with relief niche ( the night takes the book out of the hands of those who have fallen asleep ) in the Luisenstadt cemetery in Berlin (heavily weathered)

1919: Cast iron medal On the jewelry of the resting places of our brave helped ... , issued by the welfare organization for war graves, Berlin

1920: Tomb for Karl Gustav Henneberg (1847–1918), secret councilor and silk manufacturer; Tomb made of shell limestone with a base stone and an upright sitting figure of a girl with an urn (designed as a full sculpture) at the Görlitz municipal cemetery ; weathered inscription on the base stone: You, gods, the merchant belongs to. He goes looking for goods, but the good is attached to his ship. (from: Der Kaufmann von Friedrich Schiller ) The tomb is called The Mourners and was unveiled on October 24, 1920.

after 1920: War memorial of the Kyffhäuserbund in Berlin-Schöneberg, Hauptstrasse, on the stairs to the Schöneberg village church

Inscription: Our fallen comrades 1914–1918 1939–1945 / Kyffhäuserbund Berlin

1923: Angel group for the chapel in the Heerstrasse cemetery in Berlin
1923: War memorial on the Obernberg near Bad Salzuflen
1926: Lion monument , war memorial for the Kösener Seniors Convent Association in front of the Rudelsburg near Bad Kösen (sculpture of a dying lion)
1926: War memorial in Berlin-Dahlem , Königin-Luise-Straße , on the village green, made of artificial stone

Inscription on the front: Germany's freedom is to be sworn / as a covenant that is only disturbed by breaking the oath / See we dead stretching out of the earth grave crosses - sacrificial crosses / that you swear on it , on the back: his fallen comrades created this memorial with the help of citizens Dahlems the warrior club 1926

1927: Honorary coin for church services
1927: colored coat of arms and fountain for the country house (Gmach Urzedu Miejskiego) in Stettin
1928–1932: several works for Berlin-Siemensstadt :
- 1928: Genoveva fountain (also fairy tale fountain or virgin fountain ) in Muschelkalk, on Harriesstrasse
- ten small terracotta heads ( clever and foolish virgins ) embedded in the facade of the former Siemens clubhouse
- Sculptures of a playing child and a resting child at the entrance to the Johanna von Siemens Children's Home I.
- Keystone with the inscription "Heimat" on the source path, at the end of the Heimat settlement
- Plastic seal of a seal ( melted down in 1941 as a " metal donation of the German people ")
1928: Memorial plaque for Georg Graf von Arco
1929: War memorial in Berlin-Pankow (inaugurated in October 1929)
1929: Battalion war memorial of the Guard Pioneer Battalion in Berlin, on the sacristy of the church on Südstern (preserved, damaged by vandalism)
1929: War memorial in Oranienburg on Schlossplatz (removed in 1950, re-erected in 1996)

The monument was donated by the Oranienburg Warrior Association in honor of those who died in the Wars of Liberation and the First World War. It consists of four sandstone steles that are arranged in a circle around an oak planted in 1818. They symbolize the war years and on their reliefs depict a man from the storm , a volunteer , a mother with child and a bride.

1932: War memorial to the fallen sons of the city of Harburg (sculpture of a soldier with head injuries who fights heroically despite being wounded)
after 1934: group of putti at the grave of Max Haller in the south-west cemetery Stahnsdorf near Berlin, block Epiphany
1935: War memorial of the 3rd Thuringian Infantry Regiment No. 71 in Erfurt , at the foot of the Petersberg (inaugurated on October 20, 1935, melted down in 1945 as glorifying the war)
1936: Tomb for Friedrich Lienhard in Eisenach
1939: Hindenburg statue on the Kyffhäuser near Frankenhausen

The five-meter-tall sculpture was buried by the Red Army in 1945 , it reappeared a few years ago and provided a local farce.

literature

Hosaeus, Hermann . 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. 541 .

Web links

Commons : Hermann Hosaeus - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Hermann Hosaeus in the catalog of the German National Library
Hosaeus in Berlin at www.bildhauerei-in-berlin.de (with images of three works), last accessed on February 3, 2015

Individual evidence

↑ Large Berlin art exhibition from May 7 to September 17, 1899 ( [1] Catalog UB Heidelberg).

^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 268.

↑ Collection group 400, estates: 417. Hosaeus estate. ( Memento of the original from November 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. University archive of the Technical University of Berlin. @1@ 2

↑ Figure on www.artnet.de , last accessed on February 3, 2015.

↑ Figure on www.portugal-post.de , last accessed on February 3, 2015.

↑ Figure on www.figurin.se , last accessed on February 3, 2015.

↑ Max Schmid (ed.): One hundred designs from the competition for the Bismarck National Monument on the Elisenhöhe near Bingerbrück-Bingen. Düsseldorfer Verlagsanstalt, Düsseldorf 1911. (n. Pag.)

↑ ^a ^b Regina Scheer: Dealing with the monuments. A research in Brandenburg. Brandenburg State Center for Political Education, 2003. ( Archived copy ( memento of the original dated December 2, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. PDF; 1.6 MB) p. 16, p. 22. @1@ 2

↑ Hosaeus, Hermann (1875-1958); I gave gold for iron .

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d War memorials from Hosaeus on the DenkFried website , last accessed on February 4, 2015.

↑ Golden Szczecin on a tourist website .

↑ Ralf Busch : The "Harburg Soldier" and its builder Hermann Hosaeus. In: Harburg Yearbook. 23rd year 2012, pp. 6–13.

personal data
SURNAME	Hosaeus, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hosaeus, Hermann Kurt; Hosaeus, Kurt Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sculptor and medalist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 6, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH	Eisenach
DATE OF DEATH	April 26, 1958
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Large Berlin art exhibition from May 7 to September 17, 1899 ( [1] Catalog UB Heidelberg).

[2] Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 268.