Johann Werner Henschel

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The statue of Boniface in Fulda created by Henschel

Johann Werner Henschel (born February 14, 1782 in Kassel , † August 15, 1850 in Rome ) was a German sculptor .

Henschel became a student of Ludwig Daniel Heyd and the academy in his hometown Kassel; At the same time he learned the piece and bell foundry , the trade of his father, the entrepreneur Georg Christian Carl Henschel .

In 1805 he went to Paris , where he continued his training in Pierre Jean David d'Angers ' studio, and returned to Kassel in 1810. There he created the group of a half-kneeling Charitas with two children for the future Queen of the Netherlands in 1818 and the grave monument for Count Reichenbach in the churchyard in Kassel in 1822 . In 1832 he became a professor at the local academy. In 1835 he was one of the co-founders of the Kunstverein für Kurhessen . The statue of St. Boniface in Fulda (1842) is considered to be his main work .

Commissioned by King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia , Henschel went to Rome in 1844, where he created his most popular work: a marble fountain group for the Pompeian bath in Potsdam, incorrectly referred to as Hermann and Dorothea . Today a bronze cast of this group of sculptures stands on the forecourt of the Kassel Schönfeld Palace .

Henschel died in Rome on August 15, 1850.

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SURNAME Henschel, Johann Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1782
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH August 15, 1850
Place of death Rome