Hermann Volz (sculptor)

Hermann Volz 1910

Scheffel monument at Scheffelplatz in Karlsruhe around 1900. Created in 1892 by Hermann Volz. The metal decorations including the muse figure were melted down during World War II, only the two reliefs on the sides were restored in the 1990s.

Kaiser Wilhelm I equestrian statue in Essen

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
• 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
• 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

1. ↑ Dr. Otto Kuntzemüller, The monuments of Kaiser Wilhelm the Great, Bremen undated (around 1903), page 333
2. ^ 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

Web links

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