Julius Franz (sculptor)
Friedrich Hermann Julius Franz (born January 26, 1824 in Berlin ; † December 16, 1887 there ) was a German sculptor .
Life
Julius Franz moved to the Akademie der Künste (Berlin) at the age of 14 , studied for five years under Ludwig Wilhelm Wichmann and Ferdinand August Fischer and later worked as an assistant to August Wredow and Daniel Christian Rauch . After receiving the large gold medal from the Berlin Academy in 1850 , he later made a study trip to Italy at state expense and, on his return, was entrusted with a variety of decorative sculptures, genre and allegorical figures.
Works
- A group cast in zinc by Moritz Geiß “Shepherd and Dog, Attacked by the Panther” (1853), one in the Sicilian Garden Potsdam-Sanssouci, one in the Burggarten Schwerin (original lost, cast bronze in 1997).
- two colossal groups of naiads and sea lions .
- a marble statue of the muse Klio (1855).
- Grave monument of the Secret Cabinet Councilor Ernst Emil Illaire (1797–1866) for the Bornstedter Friedhof (figure of the same shape as the angel of Louis Mayer's grave in the old St. Matthew's churchyard in Schöneberg).
- Grave monument for the actress Leonore de Ahna (1838–1865)
- Resurrection angel for the grave monument of the Martin Richnow family, Dorffriedhof Berlin-Schöneberg, Hauptstrasse .
- Portrait bust of Lieutenant Heinrich Lommatzsch (1837–1864), grandson of Friedrich Daniel Schleiermacher (lost).
- Allegorical figures such as B. hunter, fisherman, reaper, the months and the seasons (see group of figures “Four Seasons” on Radebeul's Fontainenplatz ).
- For the Berlin stock exchange he created allegories of England and America (loss of war).
Two of his most important works were the colossal marble groups for Belle-Alliance-Platz in Berlin , based on the designs of his late teacher August Fischer in 1876 :
- An eagle as a symbol for Prussia
- as well as a lying horse as a symbol for the Kingdom of Hanover .
- When competing for a Friedrich Ludwig Jahn monument, he made an ingenious design, but it was too large.
- He created the busts of Hans Adam von Schöning and Friedrich Graf Kleist von Nollendorf for the Berlin Hall of Fame
gallery
Grave of Marie Mayer / Louis Mayer in the old St.-Matthäus-Kirchhof in Berlin-Schöneberg. Angel by Julius Franz (1876)
"Shepherd group" in Schwerin (Neuguss 1997)
"November". Model: Julius Franz, 1864. Execution: Eduard Stützel , 1865. Figure on the eastern plant hall of the Orangery Palace , Potsdam.
"The August". Model: Julius Franz, 1864. Execution: Eduard Stützel, 1866. Figure on the eastern plant hall, orangery castle
Individual evidence
- ↑ JLeonore de Ahna in The Dorotheenstädtische Friedhof: the burial places on Berlin's Chausseestrasse
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Franz, Julius |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Franz, Friedrich Hermann Julius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 26, 1824 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 16, 1887 |
| Place of death | Berlin |