Joseph Enseling
Joseph Bernhard Hubert Enseling (born November 28, 1886 in Coesfeld , † July 16, 1957 in Düsseldorf ) was a German sculptor and university professor .
Life
After training as a sculptor, Enseling studied from 1905 to 1910 with the sculptor Rudolf Bosselt , the painter and designer Peter Behrens and the architect Wilhelm Kreis at the Düsseldorf School of Applied Arts and from 1910 to 1912 at the Académie Colarossi in Paris with Aristide Maillol . From 1922 he taught at what would later become the Folkwang School in Essen and from 1938 to 1952 he was professor at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . Among his students were Joseph Beuys and Hermann Blumenthal .
Enseling's work, which was often commissioned, consists of industrial and mining monuments as well as architectural sculptures, which were often created in collaboration with locally and regionally known architects such as Edmund Körner or Georg Metzendorf . In Essen, Enseling produced, among other things, the putti (1910) on the Moltkebrücke and two allegorical giants (1911) in the immediate vicinity at the main entrance of the building trade school (today's Robert Schmidt vocational college ) in the Moltkeviertel and the treasure trove fountain (1911/1912) on the Market place of the Margarethenhöhe . He also created portraits of personalities from the 1920s and 1930s and various memorials. One of them was the memorial erected on the market square in Essen- Frintrop in 1927 to commemorate those who fell, which was destroyed in a bomb attack on December 31, 1944.
literature
- Enseling, Josef . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 42-43 .
- Enseling, Joseph . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 5 : V-Z. Supplements: A-G . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1961, p. 461 .
- Enseling, Joseph . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 34, Saur, Munich a. a. 2002, ISBN 3-598-22774-4 , p. 163.
- Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who. arani, Berlin 1955, p. 245.
Web links
- Literature by and about Joseph Enseling in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Joseph Enseling in the German Digital Library
- Search for Joseph Enseling in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
- Short biography
- biography
- Enseling on artnet
Individual evidence
- ↑ Reinhard Ermen: Joseph Beuys. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2007, ISBN 3-499-50623-8 .
- ^ Citizens and Transport Association Essen-Frintrop 1922 eV: Chronicle of the Frintrop memorial cross from 1927 to 2009
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Enseling, Joseph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Enseling, Joseph Bernhard Hubert (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 28, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Coesfeld |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 16, 1957 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |