Julius Robert Hannig

Julius Robert Hannig with his wife Johanna

Julius Robert Hannig (born July 7, 1866 in Liegnitz , † 1931 in Tabarz ) was a German sculptor.

education

Against his father's wishes, he began studying fine arts at the Dresden Academy , where he became a master student of Ernst Hähnel . Because of his decision Hannig was destitute. He had to finance his studies himself. King Albert stood up for the student and gave him a scholarship to study at an art academy in Paris with Emmanuel Frémiet . He also studied in Berlin.

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After successfully completing his studies, he worked as a sculptor of genre figures, portrait busts, monuments and fountains. Hannig also worked at the Russian and Prussian courts. The large sculptures made in St. Petersburg and Berlin were probably melted down during the First World War. In France he is known for his Art Nouveau tin work.

His Berlin studio was in the garden house at Yorckstrasse 84 (today: Riehmers Hofgarten ) in 1899, in 1905 at Yorckstrasse 81 and in 1910 in his house at Friedenthalstrasse 4 (today: Schellendorffstrasse ) in Berlin-Schmargendorf .

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  Art Nouveau vases in polished pewter, France, 1900

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  Cigarette case after a graphic by Alfons Maria Mucha , polished tin, France around 1900

Exhibitions and well-known large sculptures

year	place	Note or title
1892	Berlin Academy	Catalog with ill., P. 55
1894	Salon de Paris	Bust of the German ambassador Gf. Muenster
1897-1913	Great Berlin art exhibition	Catalog z. T. with ill. 1894, 1897–1899, 1904, 1913
1909	Brieg	Luther monument
1913	Beelitz	Statue of Kaiser Wilhelm I.
1914	Networks	Fountain

Private

Joachim Hans Hannig (1907–1977)

Hannig married Johanna Kurtze, the daughter of a spirits manufacturer from Sprottau . In 1908, one year after the birth of her son Joachim Hans, she died in Berlin at the age of 28.

Hannig died in 1931 at the age of 65 in Tabarz, Thuringia. The city of Liegnitz made him an honorary citizen.

literature

• Anton von Werner: Hannig, J. Robert . In: On the jubilee celebration 1696–1896 . Schuster, Berlin 1896, p. 214 ( digitalesammlungen.uni-weimar.de ).
• Max Martersteig (ed.): Yearbook of the fine arts. Berlin 1902, III. Performing Artists, Sp. 108 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Peter Bloch, Sibylle Einholz , Jutta von Simson: Ethos and Pathos. The Berlin Sculpture School 1786–1914, contributions with short biographies of Berlin sculptors. Volume 2, annual edition of the German Association for Art History, Mann, Berlin 1990, p. 473.
• Hannig, J. Robert . In: Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General Artist Lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists . Prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller . 3rd, revised and updated edition up to the latest time. tape 5 : Vialle-Zyrlein. Supplements and corrections . Literary Institute, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1901, p. 125 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive - Supplements).
• Hannig, J. Robert . In: Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General Artist Lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists . Prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller . tape 6 : Second addendum with corrections . Literary Institute, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1922, p. 126 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin , special exhibition cast iron, catalog, 1916, p. 19.
• Hannig, Robert . 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. 594 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Detlef Lorenz: Traces of Artists in Berlin from the Baroque to Today: A Guide to Places of Living, Work and Memorials of Visual Artists. Berlin 2002, p. 345.