Johannes Darsow

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Johannes Darsow (born August 12, 1877 in Berlin ; † 1946 ) was a German sculptor.

life and work

Darsow studied from 1897 to 1905 at the Dresden School of Applied Arts and at the Academy in Berlin. As a Berlin student he received a scholarship of 1000 marks from the board of trustees of the Emil Wentzel Foundation. At the time, fellow scholarship holders were Eberhard Encke and the two painters Eckhard Schuh and Leonhard Schaum. After completing his studies, Darsow traveled to Italy.

On August 6, 1912, he married Elisabeth Auguste Amalie Ottilie von Kalckreuth, born in 1878.

From 1906 he exhibited his works in cities such as Berlin and Munich . Among other things, he was represented at the first Great German Art Exhibition in 1937. He mainly created genre sculptures. Darsow lived temporarily in Berlin-Charlottenburg .

For the International Hunting Exhibition in Berlin in 1937, a larger than life stag was cast from bronze based on Darsow's design . This statue represented the deer "Raufbold" that Hermann Göring had shot in 1936 in Rominter Heide . The stag, which was still gold at the time, can be seen on a color film that was shot about the hunting exhibition.

After the exhibition was over, the work of art was set up at the western end of Carinhall's Kastanienallee on the Hirschplatz named after him. In contrast to other figural decorations from Carinhall, the stag survived the end of the Third Reich and the post-war period. It was later installed in the Berlin-Friedrichsfelde zoo , after having been in the Sanssouci Palace Park until 1950 .

A duplicate cast by Lauchhammer in 1938 was set up in the park of the Grillenburg hunting lodge and is now on the Kurplatz in the Kurort Hartha .

literature

Web links

Commons : Johannes Darsow  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Staff and studio news in Art for All , November 16, 1905 ( digitized version )
  2. ↑ Velhagen & Klasings MONTHS, Volume 28, Issue 2: Velhagen & Klasings MONTHS 1933, p. 342 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  3. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses . Justus Perthes, Gotha 1941, p. 200 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  4. ^ Robert Thoms, Great German Art Exhibition Munich 1937-1944. Directory of artists in two volumes . Volume 2: Sculptor , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-937294-02-5
  5. ^ Film from the 1937 International Hunting Exhibition at www.archiv-akh.de
  6. ↑ Volker Knopf: Görings Reich, Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-86153-392-4 , p. 155 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  7. ↑ local history on www.tharandt.de ; there Darsow's year of birth is given as 1872.
personal data
SURNAME Darsow, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 1946