Jean Eduard Dannhäuser

Jean Eduard Dannhäuser (born August 8, 1868 in Berlin ; † September 26, 1925 there ) was a German sculptor .

Life

After studying at the school of the Kunstgewerbemuseum and at the art academy (with Fritz Schaper , Ernst Herter and Alexander Calandrelli ) in Berlin, he worked as a freelancer. His work extended to both monumental sculpture (fountains, memorial reliefs) and small sculptures. His specialty was horse sculpture. His work has been shown at various art exhibitions (including in Berlin, Dresden and Leipzig). Some of his figure models ( mountain climber ; boxer ; stallion ; dog ; dancer ) were purchased by the Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik in 1926 and offered as plastic copies.

His grave is in the south-west cemetery Stahnsdorf .

Works

• Female Bust (1891)
• Hunter with shotgun, bronze (1894)
• Horse sculpture "Herrenlos", bronze (1904)
• Horse sculpture "Dead tired", bronze (1907)
• Polo player (1908), fr. in the City Palace in Potsdam
• Inkwell with female figure, bronze (1900)
• Personal horse "Barfatzke", bronze (1910)
• Thirsty Horse (1912)
• Mourning female figure, bronze (1931), at the Heinrich Röttger family grave in the cemetery in Hamburg-Ohlsdorf
• Europe on the bull. bronze
• Schäferbrunnen, marble, fr. in Neustadt (Upper Silesia)
• Monumental relief ( Carl Eduard -Warte), on Hohenwartskopf near Elgersburg (Thür.)

literature

• Willy Oskar Dressler's art manual . Volume 2, Berlin 1921.
• H. Berman: Bronces, Sculptors and founders 1830-1930. Volume III, Chicago 1977.
• Dannhäuser, Jean Eduard . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 8 : Coutan-Delattre . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 374-375 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
• Jean Eduard Dannhäuser . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 24, Saur, Munich a. a. 1999, ISBN 3-598-22764-7 , p. 197.
• Traces of artists in Berlin from the baroque to today. Berlin 2002, p. 239.

Web links

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