Hugo Berwald

Sculptor Hugo Berwald

Hugo Berwald (artist name: Hugo Berwald-Schwerin ; * February 10, 1863 in Schwerin ; † February 14, 1937 there ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Hugo Berwald was born the son of the court mirror supplier and councilor Wilhelm Berwald. The American conductor and composer William Henry Berwald was his brother.

From 1881 to 1884, Berwald studied at the Berlin Art Academy with practical training with Albert Wolff and Fritz Schaper , then he settled in Berlin-Grunewald . His monument with the bust of Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II for Neukloster , created in 1887, established a long-term relationship with the Schwerin court . When Berwald met with Grand Duke Friedrich Franz III. applied for a travel grant for a one-year stay in Rome, the Grand Duke ruled: “The p. Berwald is one of the young artists who are ideally suited for the support of the artist grants from the Ministry of Art and my casket, according to the newly established principles. ”He then received both cabinet grants and the large and the small ministerial scholarship. The young artist lived and worked in Rome with the sculptor Joseph von Kopf (1827–1903), whose daughter Martha he married in Rome in 1892. Later stays in Rome were justified in this regard.

In January 1895, the Grand Duke ordered a rower statuette from Berwald, which he awarded as the annual sports prize at the regatta of the Schwerin Officers' Rowing Club (awarded until 1904). In April of the same year Berwald stayed with Prince Otto von Bismarck in Friedrichsruh to study for the creation of a bust. For a monument to Count Johann Ernst zu Nassau-Weilburg in Weilburg an der Lahn, the Grand Duke of Luxembourg awarded him the Knight's Cross of the Military and Community Service Order of Adolph von Nassau . Numerous other works followed, especially portrait busts. On the occasion of the unveiling of the marble statue of Grand Duchess Alexandrine in the Grünhausgarten in Schwerin , Berwald was appointed "Grand Ducal Professor" in 1907.

In addition to larger works, Berwald also devoted himself to the art of plaques and medals.

At the suggestion of Grand Duke Friedrich Franz IV , a memorial for the forest officials in Ludwigslust was erected in 1915 , which was cast under special circumstances during the First World War, but was not unveiled to the public until 1921. The death of his wife, who had been in poor health for many years, inspired Berwald to create his masterpiece: a Christ on the cross, which he had to sell, however. Due to the changed socio-political conditions after 1918, Berwald got into financial hardship. Completely in debt, he returned to his sister in Schwerin, the town of his birth, around 1928. The welfare office of the city of Schwerin partially took over the debts and granted a small honorary pension.

Berwald died ill, lonely and almost forgotten in his hometown and was buried in the old cemetery in a poor grave at the foot of a second cast of his crucifix , his wife was reburied from Bad Rothenfelde to Schwerin, they left no children behind.

Work (selection)

Person event motive	image	Location whereabouts	Kind of material	Establishment of inauguration	Further information
Friedrich Franz II.		New monastery , teachers' college destroyed	Bust bronze	07/21/1887	melted down for armaments in World War II, base removed later
Hans von Bülow		a) Berlin , National Gallery preserved b) Meiningen , Court Theater preserved? c) Berlin, State Library preserved	Bust a) bronze b) bronze c) marble	1887	a) Bronze bust in 1918 as a gift from the artist to the National Gallery, b) bronze bust in 1895 as a gift from Duke Georg II of Saxony-Meiningen to the court theater there, c) Marble copy in 1913 as a gift from the Bülow widow to the State Library
Wilhelm II.		Schwerin , officers' mess missing	Bust bronze	1889
Robert Cauer		unknown	bust	1890	originated during a stay in Rome
Friedrich Franz III.		Schwerin, castle (ancestral gallery) preserved	Bust marble	1893
Friedrich von Bodenstedt		Wiesbaden destroyed	Bust bronze	04/22/1894	Melted down in 1942 as a metal donation by the German people
Heinrich Schliemann		, Schwerin am Pfaffenteich get	Bust bronze	08/22/1895	Bronze bust stolen in 2011 and irreparably destroyed, new casting in 2012
Johann Ernst of Nassau-Weilburg		Weilburg received	Bust bronze	1896	no longer in the original location
Friedrich Franz III.		Schwerin, State Museum preserved	Bust bronze	1897
Karl Hill		Schwerin, state theater received	Relief marble	01/12/1898
Friedrich Franz III.		Schwerin, Marstall Peninsula destroyed	Bust bronze	05/24/1898	Destroyed in 1948, bronze bust probably melted down during the war
Heinrich von Stephan		Westerland received	Bust marble	06/11/1898	Modeled "after life" on Sylt
Ferdinand Hey'l		Wiesbaden, cemetery preserved	Relief marble	1898
Georg Beseler		Berlin, Humboldt University received	Bust marble	1898
Madonna		unknown	Marble statue	1899
Snake charmer		Berlin, Villa Gutmann lost	Marble statue	1899	acquired from banker Eugen Gutmann for his villa in Berlin (Rauchstrasse)
Friedrich Franz IV.		Lübheen, brine bath preserved	Bust marble	1901	preserved in the State Museum Schwerin
Girls from Kos		unknown	Statue marble	around 1901
Paul Meyerheim		unknown	Bust bronze?	around 1901
Heinrich von Treitschke		Berlin, National Gallery preserved	Bust bronze	1903
Friedrich Franz III.		Received Lübheen	Bust bronze	1906	based on a model from 1899, moved to Ludwigslust in 1936
Cecilie of Mecklenburg		Hohenlychow, castle lost	bust	1905
Friedrich Franz III.		Ludwigslust , castle park preserved	Bust bronze	1906	Moved here from Lübenheen in 1936
Alexandrine		Schwerin, castle garden preserved	Marble statue	08/25/1907	on the base in bas-relief the portraits of King Friedrich Wilhelm III. (Father), Queen Luise (mother), Kaiser Wilhelm I (brother) and Tsarina Alexandra Fjodorovna (sister)
Ferdinand Hey'l		Wiesbaden, Kurpark preserved	Bust marble	1907
Johann Basedow		Schwerin, Sachsenberg received	Bust bronze	1908	moved here from the original location at the Lewenberg Clinic
Christ on the cross		Kronskamp near Brüel, Gutsfriedhof preserved	Crucifix bronze	1908
Christ on the cross		Schwerin, old cemetery preserved	Crucifix bronze	1908	Second copy, listed here only in 1928
Fritz Reuter		Stavenhagen , Reuter Museum preserved	Bronze statuette	1909	originally as a design in the competition for the Fritz Reuter monument in Stavenhagen; another copy in the regional museum in Neubrandenburg
"Rescue from distress at sea"		Bronze figure group	Schwerin, Grunthal-Platz received	10/03/1911	originally on the market
Jägerdenkmal 1914-18		Ludwigslust, castle park preserved	Statue bronze	05/05/1921	Model 1915, cast 1918
Heinrich Behm		Schwerin, cathedral preserved	Relief bronze	1930	in memory of the first Mecklenburg regional bishop

literature

• Paul Kühn: Berwald, Hugo . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 3 : Bassano – Bickham . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1909, p. 521-522 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
• Berwald-Schwerin, Hugo. In: Willy Oskar Dressler (Ed.): Dressler's Art Handbook , Volume 2. 9th Edition, Berlin 1930, p. 75.
• Berwald, Hugo . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p. 196 .
• Hugo Berwald . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 10, Saur, Munich a. a. 1994, ISBN 3-598-22750-7 , p. 170 ..
• Volker Probst: Berwald, Hugo. In: Biographical Lexicon for Mecklenburg. Volume 7, ed. by Andreas Röpcke et al., Rostock 2013, pp. 37-40 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Mecklenburg. Series A: Biographisches Lexikon für Mecklenburg , edited by Andreas Röpcke, Volume 7).

Web links

Commons : Hugo Berwald  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature about Hugo Berwald in the state bibliography MV
• The biography of Hugo Berwald on the website of "State Palaces and Gardens in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania"

Individual evidence

1. ↑ spa director Ferdinand Hey'l 1830-1897