Joachim Tietjens

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Joachim Tietjens (born August 4, 1852 in Albersdorf , † September 11, 1916 in Berlin ) was a German sculptor.

Life

The son of a carpenter grew up in a poor family with a peasant family and after his confirmation initially trained as a clerk. Theodor Storm is said to have noticed him in this activity in Husum . Well-meaning patrons made it possible for him to visit the art academy in Dresden, where he was a student of Johannes Schilling from 1873 to 1883 . In 1876 he worked for Schilling in the construction of the national monument on the Niederwald . His first commission in 1877 was the relief portrait of the five-year-old daughter of the Dresden architect and art historian Richard Steche . Presumably he was already close to the teacher Minna Giebel from Heide in Dresden, who made a name for herself as a writer and wrote a poem about Tietjens on January 13, 1881. At the end of 1882 Tietjens created several portraits in Kiel, including the bust of the surgeon Friedrich von Esmarch , his wife Princess Henriette of Schleswig-Holstein and their son, and a bust of the poet Klaus Groth . With the help of Groth, he hoped in vain for a commission for a monument to his compatriot Friedrich Hebbel in Wesselburen. Since 1884 he was based in Berlin, where he was involved in the great Berlin art exhibitions from 1886 to 1892. Since he could not gain a firm foothold in Berlin in the long run, he returned to Kiel. Here, in 1892, during the creation of a relief portrait by Klaus Groth, the first signs of an incurable mental illness appeared. Tietjens began to wander and spent the rest of his life in the Dalldorf sanatorium near Berlin. The war losses of the Kunsthalle zu Kiel include "Der Frühling" (plaster), bust of Baroness Heintze (plaster), bust of Graf Waldersee (plaster), children's group (plaster).

Works

  • Portrait relief of the mother Anna Margaretha Tietjens geb. Jarck. Dithmarscher Landesmuseum, Meldorf
  • Relief portrait of Elisabeth Steche, 1877
  • Portrait of a little girl, plaster relief. Royal Art exhibition Dresden 1879
  • Bust of a young girl, marble. Art collection of the Veste Coburg Inv. Pl. 165
  • Portrait relief for the grave of Duke Friedrich VIII of Schleswig Holstein, around 1882, marble, formerly Primkenau church
  • "Spring" two-thirds life-size statuette, royal. Art exhibition Dresden 1883, formerly Kunsthalle zu Kiel
  • Bust of Friedrich Esmarch and his son, 1883
  • Bust of Klaus Groth, 1883, plaster. Dithmarscher State Museum and Klaus Groth Museum Heide
  • Princess Henriette of Schleswig-Holstein, owned by her husband Friedrich von Esmarch in 1889
  • Prince Adalbert of Prussia, owned by Empress Auguste Viktoria in 1891
  • Bust of Nanny Peters, Dithmarscher State Museum, Meldorf
  • Relief portrait of Klaus Groth, plaster of paris 1892

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tietjens, _Jochim
  2. ↑ Bärbel Stephan, Sächsische Bildhauerkunst - Johannes Schilling 1828–1910, Berlin 1996, p. 76.
  3. ↑ Kieler Zeitung December 9, 1882.
  4. ↑ Klaus Groth - his life in pictures and words, Flensburg 1965, p. 228 - Photograph of a design by Schmidt Wegener, Kiel in the Goethe-Schiller-Archiv, Weimar GSA 43 / IV, 7
  5. ↑ Klaus Groth, letters from the years 1841 to 1899, Flensburg / Hamburg 1963, p. 373.
  6. ↑ Ernst and Luise Sieger (eds.), Letters from Klaus Groth to the Lange family, Erlangen 1906, p. 50f.
  7. ↑ Ulrich Bischof, catalog of the images from the possession of the Kunsthalle zu Kiel, p. 231 - photos in the artist archive of the Kunsthalle zu Kiel
personal data
SURNAME Tietjens, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Albersdorf
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 1916
Place of death Berlin