Hermann Knaur

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Hermann Knaur around 1840

Imanuel August Hermann Knaur (born April 3, 1811 in Leipzig ; † April 1, 1872 there ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Hermann Knaur was the son of a teacher. He attended the Ratsfreischule in Leipzig. After the early death of his father, he went to a potter for four years. Friends of the arts in Leipzig became aware of his small works that he made out of clay. They enabled him to stay in Dresden , where he studied sculpture with Ernst Rietschel for three years . Then he worked for Ernst Hähnel for a while .

The Saxon Art Association bought his first independent work, The Wanderer with the Dog . The second prize for the (not executed) design of the Beethoven monument in Bonn was the reason to grant him a scholarship for a trip to Italy from 1843 to 1845. Here in Rome the marble statue “A girl who feeds pigeons” and the group of Cain and Abel were made from clay.

After his return, Knaur created various Leipzig monuments, including the first Bach monument donated by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and designed by Eduard Bendemann , Ernst Rietschel and Julius Hübner . On behalf of Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian of Austria, he created a series of busts of famous men for Miramare Castle near Trieste . He was a member of the Leipzig Freemason Lodge Minerva to the three palms .

Works (selection)

  • The hiker with the dog
  • Design for the Beethoven monument in Bonn
  • A girl who feeds pigeons
  • Cain and Abel
  • Old Bach monument in Leipzig based on a design by Eduard Bendemann, Ernst Rietschel and Julius Hübner (1843)
  • Crown model of the Napoleon stone at the tobacco mill (1857)
  • Sculpture of Ulrich von Hutten at the stately Huttenburg country estate in Meißen (around 1857)
  • Decorative painting on the Plato - Dolz monument at the Leipziger Dittrichring (1865, inaugurated 1894, architecture Georg Weidenbach )
  • Bust of the toll collector in Leipzig's Rosental (1868)
  • Leibniz bust for the auditorium of Leipzig University
  • The New Gellert Monument in Leipzig's Rosental (1865, removed in 1959)
  • Lessing bust at the Lessing House in Kamenz (1863)
  • Statuette by GW Leipnitz, private

  • Drawing study of a girl feeding pigeons

  • Design for Cain and Abel

  • Old Bach monument in Leipzig

  • At the Plato Dolz monument

  • Former Gellert monument in the Rosental

  • Bust of Lessing in Kamenz

  • Statue of Ulrich von Hutten at the Huttenburg in Meißen

literature

Web links

Commons : Hermann Knaur  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Günter Naumann: City Lexicon Meißen . Sax-Verlag, Beucha, 2009, p. 137.
personal data
SURNAME Knaur, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Knaur, Imanuel August Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1872
Place of death Leipzig