Karl Friedrich Moest

Minerva on the Mannheim railway bridge that was destroyed in World War II

The Empress Augusta Memorial in the Koblenz Rhine Complex (together with Bruno Schmitz )

Monument to Heinrich Huebsch in Karlsruhe

Monument to Grand Duke Friedrich I of Baden in Badenweiler

Bismarck monument in Karlsruhe

Galatea fountain (before 1900)

Karl Friedrich Moest or Carl Friedrich Moest (born March 26, 1838 in Gernsbach , Baden , † August 14, 1923 in Karlsruhe ; also Möst ) was a German sculptor . He was the father of the sculptor Hermann Moest , the singer Rudolf Moest   and the actor Friedrich Moest .

Life

Moest learned to draw from his father, a gunsmith , also etched in copper and steel , learned to use the burin , created inlays and carved in wood. In Pforzheim he started modeling and engraving in a silver goods factory. He later made molds for decorations on corks for wine bottles. He worked hard for several years to be able to finance his further education. His body was overwhelmed by this, however, and Moest fell ill with typhus two months after entering the Munich Polytechnic . After recovering in his hometown, he began studying mechanical engineering, chemistry and architecture at the Karlsruhe Polytechnic . After six months, however, Moest decided on art. Now he was taught at the art school by Adolf des Coudres and Johann Wilhelm Schirmer . Another teacher Moest was the sculptor Hans Baur (1829-1897), who had rented a private studio in the new building of the academy in the Bismarckstrasse and Moest taught there together with Gustav von Kreß .

Moests first works were portrait busts like those of the painter August von Bayer (1803–1875) and the ministers Wilhelm Lamey and Franz von Roggenbach . His teacher, Carl Steinhäuser , presumably gave Moest the commission to design a memorial for the chief building director Heinrich Hübsch, who died in 1863, under his supervision . From 1863 he worked as a drawing teacher at the trade school. After he had designed more busts and the large sandstone caryatids for the town hall in Mannheim , he went to Italy with a travel grant in 1864 and studied the masterpieces of Michelangelo , Canova and Thorwaldsen . After his return, further busts followed (Johann Wilhelm Schirmer, Georg Gottfried Gervinus , Wilhelm Lamey (1904 in Mannheim), Princess von Wied and the grand dukes) as well as his first larger work: the Minerva group with trade and industry on the railway bridge in Mannheim which made him an important name and drew other jobs. In 1870 he applied to be allowed to travel to London to visit the ancient sculptures and plaster casts of the British Museum and the South Kensington Museum .

On May 26, 1868, Moest married Louise Himmel (* September 1, 1839) in Bruchsal. Her son Hermann was born on December 5th. The son Friedrich was born in 1866, his brother Rudolf followed in 1871.

From 1867 (as professor from 1872) Moest was a teacher at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Karlsruhe and lived at Bismarckstraße 47. He also worked for the company Dyckerhoff & Widman, which, in addition to selling building materials, also cast architectural parts and sculptures in cement . For example, the company was commissioned by the city of Karlsruhe to manufacture the Galatea fountain , which Moest then carried out. In 1879 Moest left the arts and crafts school at his own request, as Gustav Kachel did not accept his alternative proposal for a wage increase instead of dismissal. Moests successor was Adolf Heer .

In 1890, Moest was disqualified in the competition to erect a memorial for Kaiser Wilhelm I because he had made his model on the wrong scale. He would have landed in third place, behind Hermann Volz and Adolf Heer, who did it in the end. Between 1900 and 1901 he had more luck in the second competition to erect a Bismarck monument in Karlsruhe: After the first such competition had failed without a winner, Fridolin Dietsche was advertised as the winner of the second competition, as his was still known as the " relatively best “design. However, the memorial committee later decided to have one of the three designs submitted by Moest.

Works

The works that Moest created after the Mannheim railway bridge include the group of the Triumph of Galatea (Galatea fountain), the memorial for the warriors who died in Mannheim from 1870/71, allegorical figures on the headquarters of the Palatinate Railway in Ludwigshafen and as his The main work is the victory monument in Freiburg im Breisgau , as well as the war memorial on the Pforzheim market square, unveiled in 1879, consisting of an old Germanic warrior of Herculean form. The latter was destroyed at the latest during the air raid on Pforzheim .

Many of his works can be found in Karlsruhe, including the following:

• Ferdinand Redtenbacher Memorial at the Ehrenhof (1865–1866)
• Monument to Heinrich Hübsch in the garden of the State Art Gallery (1866–1867); Base by Peter Lenz . Financed largely through private donations, including Grand Duke Friedrich (110  fl. ), Ludwig I (300 fl.) And King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. (99 fl. And 20  k. )
• Memorial for the Karlsruhe sports educator and long-time neighbor Moests Alfred Maul ; inaugurated on April 11, 1911 in the presence of Friedrich II. , memorial melted down during the Second World War, the base was preserved until the 1960s and was later lost (like many other things) when the building yard was closed.
• Relief "Education and Teaching" at the teachers' college (1868–1869)
• the already mentioned Galatea Fountain (1871–1872) exists in at least three copies. One has been in the garden of the Hereditary Grand Ducal Palace (Federal Court of Justice) since 1954 , another since 1907 in the Robert-Krekel-Anlage in Wiesbaden-Biebrich and a third in a private garden in Klosterneuburg
• Figures Hylas and nymph at the Malsch fountain (1872–1875), together with the architect Heinrich Lang and his assistant Otto Warth
• Figure group "Lessons" at the Hans Thoma School (1878–1879)
• Memorial for Franz Grashof , inaugurated on October 26, 1896, probably Moest chosen because of his connection to Redtenbacher, bust and Puto melted down in 1943, bust recreated in 1960 by Carl Egler (1896–1982)
• Bismarck monument today at the Bismarck high school (1900-04), all bronze parts except the statue, including a genius figure melted down during World War II
• Monument to Jean Becker , bronze statue erected in 1886 in the palace gardens at the Lindenhof underpasses, removed in 1945.
• Bronze figure for the tomb for Friedrich Michelis in the main cemetery in Freiburg im Breisgau , substructure by Karl Andelfinger (1896)
• Bust of Kaiser Wilhelm I , 1.80 m high, placed on Schlossplatz to celebrate the imperial proclamation
• Higher Citizens School: Statues Theory and Practice (1871)
• Shapes for the four lion mask gargoyles on the monument to Grand Duke Karl Friedrich in the palace gardens (1872/73); When it was rebuilt in 1964/65 because of the 1967 Federal Horticultural Show, it was no longer attached and has now been lost
• Realgymnasium: Figures Exact Science and Language and History (1875)
• Cemetery: putti heads at the portal (1876)
• Festhalle Karlsruhe: Hermen -Caryatids (1877)
• Participation in the design of the city garden in front of the south side of the festival hall, together with Rudolf Gleichauf and August Hoerter
• Bust of Grand Duke Friedrich I (1912 in Badenweiler )
• Main relief bust of the Tulla monument

style

Moest's oeuvre is based on late classicism. The portrait busts from 1890 onwards are also influenced by naturalism .

Awards

Moest was a knight of the Grand Ducal Baden Order of the Zähringer Lion and the Royal Prussian Crown Order .

reception

"Monuments and excellent portrait busts are the most recognized creations of the master."

- Art chronicle for the 80th birthday of Moest

literature

• Möst, Karl Friedrich . In: Hermann Alexander Müller : Biographical Artist Lexicon. The most famous contemporaries in the field of fine arts of all countries with details of their works. Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 379 f. ( retrobibliothek.de ).
• Various . In: Heinz Schmitt (ed.): Monuments, fountains and free sculptures in Karlsruhe 1715–1945 . 2nd Edition. tape 7 . Badenia-Verlag, Karlsruhe 1989, ISBN 3-7617-0264-7 , p. 686 (publications of the Karlsruhe City Archives).
• Karl Friedrich Moest . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 15 .
• Karl Friedrich Moest . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 6 , supplements H-Z . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1962, p. 278 .

Web links

Commons : Karl Friedrich Moest  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Karl Friedrich Moest in the Stadtwiki Karlsruhe

Individual evidence

1. ↑ German Biographical Yearbook, Volume 5, 1923, List of Dead (335).
2. ↑ ^{a b} Wilhelm Kosch : Deutsches Theater-Lexikon, ed. 10: 2. Klagenfurt, Vienna: Kleinmayr, 1960.
3. ↑ † Chamber singer Rudolf Moest. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Abendblatt, No. 19640/1919, April 29, 1919, p. 4, center left. (Online at ANNO ). .
4. ↑ Herrmann AL Degener : Who is it? ed. 10, Degener, Berlin 1935.
5. ^ ^{A b c d e f} Wilhelm Kaulen: Friend and Sorrow in the Life of German Artists. Christian Winter, Frankfurt am Main 1878, pp. 230-234.
6. ↑ Schmitt, p. 18.
7. ↑ Schmitt, p. 282 f.
8. ↑ Schmitt, p. 54.
9. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Schmitt, p. 686.
10. ↑ ^{a b c} Schmitt, p. 21.
11. ^ Entry of the couple on FamilySearch.org, last accessed December 28, 2009.
12. ^ Karl Friedrich Moest . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 15 .
13. ^ Spiritual Germany (short title). Spiritual Germany at the end of the 19th century Encyclopedia of German intellectual life in biographical sketches. Vol. 1 The visual artists. Leipzig / Berlin. 1898. Volume 1.
14. ↑ ^{a b} Schmitt, p. 93.
15. ↑ Schmitt, p. 30; Footnote 66
16. ↑ Schmitt, p. 372.
17. ↑ Schmitt, p. 420.
18. ^ ^{A b} Joseph August Beringer : Mannheim - Material for local history lessons , In: Annual report of the Realgymnasium with Realschule (Lessing School), school year 1912/13, Mannheim 1913, p. 20 ; there, however, wrongly reported as the work of Hermann Moest, it was probably copied from Friedrich Walter, where it was already wrong
19. ↑ Pforzheim . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 12, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 976.
20. ↑ The monument on a postcard from 1897
21. ↑ Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe, 56/157 (microfilm), letter from the Ministry of the Interior dated March 26 (?) Or September 26, 1868.
22. ↑ Silke Walther:In which style should we build? Studies on the writings and buildings of the architect Heinrich Hübsch (1795–1863) . Dissertation. 2003.
23. ↑ Schmitt, p. 487 f.
24. ↑ Ferdinand Werner : The long way to new building . Volume 2: cement and artificial stone. The triumph of the imagination. Worms 2016, ISBN 978-3-88462-372-5 , p. 422.
25. ↑ Figure in the Stadtwiki Karlsruhe
26. ↑ Schmitt, p. 398ff
27. ↑ Schmitt, 416 ff.
28. ↑ Michael Klant: Forgotten sculptors. In: Sculpture in Freiburg. 19th century art in public spaces. Freiburg 2000, pp. 164-172 ISBN 3-922675-77-8 , p. 168.
29. ↑ Schmitt, p. 110.
30. ↑ Schmitt, p. 218 ff.
31. ↑ Schmitt, p. 334 f.
32. ↑ zur-schnecke-in-kandern.de: excursion destination Kurpark Badenweiler in the Markgräflerland with the Cassiopeia thermal spring bath, ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Accessed November 18, 2009.
33. ^ Art Chronicle , Volume 29, EA Seemann, Leipzig 1918.