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 |
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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
- 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
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Berwald, Hugo |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Berwald-Schwerin, Hugo (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 10, 1863 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Schwerin |
DATE OF DEATH | February 14, 1937 |
Place of death | Schwerin |