Joseph Hammerschmidt

This article deals with the sculptor Joseph Hammerschmidt; on the politician see Josef Hammerschmidt .

Joseph Hammerschmidt (born May 3, 1873 in Münster , † December 24, 1926 in Düsseldorf ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Joseph Hammerschmidt's tomb in the Düsseldorf-Heerdt cemetery

Hammerschmidt studied from 1895 to 1901 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , where he became a master student of Karl Janssen . He created his first sculptures in public space as commissioned work during his studies. He made numerous grave monuments, fountains, war memorials and busts for private and public clients.

Works

• 1899: “Jröne Jong” fountain in the round pond of the Düsseldorf court garden
• 1900: Allegories of industry, agriculture, art and science in the gable of the Barmer Hall of Fame in Wuppertal
• 1901: Figure group Schmied with boy on Martin-Luther-Platz in Düsseldorf (surviving minor figures of the Moltked memorial otherwise destroyed in the war )
• 1903: War memorial 1870/71 in Friedberg (Hesse)
• 1904: Mausoleum for Carl Toelle with the Nibelungen group ( Hagen and Volker on the watch ) in the Unterbarmer cemetery in Wuppertal
• 1906: Marienborn in Neuss
• 1907: War memorial 1870/71 in Grevenbroich
• 1909: Theodor Schwann monument in Neuss
• 1910: Competition draft for a Bismarck national monument on the Elisenhöhe near Bingerbrück (not awarded a prize)
• 1910: Albert Mooren Fountain in Düsseldorf-Bilk
• 1910: War memorial in 1864 and 1870/71 with relief "Homecoming warriors" in Anrath
• 1911: Grote with Sphinx tomb in the Unterbarmer cemetery in Wuppertal (crypt taken over by the Riedel-Goschin family)
• 1911: Lute grave in the Poppelsdorf cemetery in Bonn
• 1913: Unterbacher monument with the coat of arms and names of the gentlemen of the Unterbach house carved into the pillars today a war memorial for those who fell in the two world wars in Düsseldorf-Unterbach
• 1919: Mater Dolorosa with a winged steel safety helmet M1916 , which is held in the arms of a fallen soldier of the First World War . The memorial plaque "For the Fatherland" is in the former Comenius-Gymnasium in Düsseldorf-Oberkassel.
• 1921: Hugo Toelle grave (female figures with urn) in the Unterbarmer cemetery in Wuppertal
• 1921: Cenotaph for the fallen of the Recovery Society in Mönchengladbach (unveiled on May 2, 1921)
• 1926: Memorial for the fallen of the First World War in Aurich
• designed 1926, executed posthumously in 1927: War memorial of the Lank Office on the old cemetery in Meerbusch-Lank (boulder, on it a relief with a portrait of a soldier)
• 1929 (?): Gravesite of the Vorwerk family in the Protestant cemetery Norrenbergstrasse in Wuppertal

and undated:

• four jewelry vases on Goltsteinstrasse at the Hofgarten in Düsseldorf

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  Jröne Jong (1899), sculpture in "Runden Weier" as a point de vue of the Reitallee in the Alter Hofgarten, Düsseldorf

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  Blacksmith with boy (1901)

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  Carl Toelle Mausoleum in Wuppertal (1904)

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  Marienborn, Neuss (1906)

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  Tomb Lute in Bonn (1911)

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  Grote Tomb in Wuppertal (1911)

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  Unterbacher Monument (Kaiser Jubilee Monument in 1913)

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  Unterbacher Monument (in 2006)

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  War memorial, Meerbusch-Lank (1926/27)

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  Memorial to the fallen of the First World War (Aurich)

literature

• Hammerschmidt, Joseph . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 569 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Ruth Meyer-Kahrweg : Monuments, sculptures, and fountains in Wuppertal. Volume 2: Biographies of the participating artists. Born-Verlag, Wuppertal 1991.
• Rolf Purpar: Art City Düsseldorf. Objects and monuments in the cityscape. 2nd, revised and supplemented edition, Grupello, Düsseldorf 2009, ISBN 3-89978-044-2 .
• Margot Klütsch: Meerbuscher Kunstwege. Works of art and monuments in the cityscape. Grupello, Düsseldorf 2010, ISBN 978-3-89978-132-8 , pp. 102, 132, 140.

Web links

Commons : Joseph Hammerschmidt  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mona Sabine Meis: Historical grave monuments of the Wupper region. Dissertation, University of Wuppertal, 2002, p. 431 f. ( online as PDF)
2. ↑ Joseph Hammerschmidt, place of origin: Münster, inventory signature: BR 0004 No. 1562, sheet 263V, school year: 1894/95 (from March 1895), teacher: Karl Janssen, art subject or existing training: sculptor , finding aid 212.01.04 student lists from the art academy Düsseldorf, to archives in NRW.
3. ↑ Examples. A small glimpse into a large number of listed objects in Neuss. ( Memento of the original from July 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - at www.neuss.de , last accessed on April 25, 2011 
4. ↑ Max Schmid (ed.): One hundred designs from the competition for the Bismarck National Monument on the Elisenhöhe near Bingerbrück-Bingen. Düsseldorfer Verlagsanstalt, Düsseldorf 1911. (n. Pag.)
5. ↑ Ulrike Evangelia Meyer-Woeller: Tombs of the 19th century in the Rhineland between identity, adaptation and individuality. Dissertation, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, 1999, p. 126. ( hss.ulb.uni-bonn.de , last accessed on April 25, 2011)
6. ^ Illustration of the Kaiser anniversary monument in Unterbach near Düsseldorf, a work by the Düsseldorf sculptor Joseph Hammerschmidt, was recently inaugurated. Photo U. Hamerstein, Hilden , in Rhine and Düssel No. 42, dated October 18, 1913