Hermann Volz (sculptor)
Hermann Volz (born March 31, 1847 in Karlsruhe ; † November 11, 1941 ibid) was a German sculptor whose work was also presented at the Great German Art Exhibition .
After graduating from high school, Hermann Volz, the son of a doctor from Karlsruhe, began studying architecture at the Karlsruhe Polytechnic , which was interrupted by the war in 1870/71. After the war he began training as a sculptor in the Steinhauser training workshops. In 1872 he made a study trip to Italy and in 1873 continued his training at J. Canon in Stuttgart. In 1875, 1878, 1883, 1902, 1904/05 and 1913 he stayed in Italy. In 1877 the war memorial at the Ettlinger Tor in Karlsruhe brought him his first major success and breakthrough. As a result, he got a job at the Karlsruhe School of Applied Arts in 1879 . He taught as a professor at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe from 1880 to 1919 .
Selection of works
- Essen : Kaiser Wilhelm I equestrian statue , Burgplatz
- Stuttgart-Cannstatt - Monument to Berthold Auerbach (1909)
- Flensburg : Kaiser Wilhelm I bust monument, Marienkirchhof ; dismantled, bust melted down
- Graben : War memorial 1870/71 with the bust of Kaiser Wilhelm I, on the church square; receive
- Hannover : Provincial Victory Monument 1871, on Emmichplatz
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Heidelberg
- Bust of the art historian Henry Thode 1903
- Memorial to Robert Wilhelm Bunsen 1907/08 (Volz received an honorary doctorate from Heidelberg University for this )
- Relief by the mathematician Leo Koenigsberger 1914
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Karlsruhe
- Bust of the Lord Mayor Wilhelm Florentin Lauter in the city garden
- Scheffeldenkmal at Scheffelplatz
- Lidell fountain at Lidellplatz (both in honor of Christoph Friedrich Lidell )
- War memorial 1870/71 at the old cemetery (formerly at Ettlinger-Tor-Platz)
- Magnificent graves in the grand ducal burial chapel
- Monument to Prince Wilhelm of Baden
- Allegorical figures Lex and Jus at the district court (jury court tract Stephanienstraße)
- Lübeck : seat image of the poet Emanuel Geibel
- Mannheim : Warrior and victory memorial in memory of the fighters who took part in the war in 1870/71 (Am Luisenring, E7): The genius of victory strides down over the trophies, bringing peace and the imperial crown. At his feet is the wounded and rearing force depicted as a lion.
- Wiesbaden : Gable field at the State Theater
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dr. Otto Kuntzemüller, The monuments of Kaiser Wilhelm the Great, Bremen undated (around 1903), page 333
- ^ Joseph August Beringer : Mannheim. Material for local history lessons , attached to the annual report of the Realgymnasium with Realschule (Lessing School), school year 1912/13, Schmalz & Laschinger, Mannheim 1913, p. 18
literature
- Joseph August Beringer : Hermann Volz. His life and work . CF Müller, Karlsruhe 1923. (Catalog raisonné p. 80–84)
- Alfred Peltzer : The Karlsruhe sculptor Hermann Volz. In: Westermanns Monatshefte , Volume 109.2 (1910), pp. 690–701
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personal data | |
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SURNAME | Volz, Hermann |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 31, 1847 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Karlsruhe |
DATE OF DEATH | November 11, 1941 |
Place of death | Karlsruhe |