Karl Heinrich Schwarzkopf

Bust: Jérôme Bonaparte ,
Karl Heinrich Schwarzkopf, around 1811

Karl Heinrich Schwarzkopf (* around 1763; † December 1, 1846 ) was a German modeller and sculptor .

life and work

Schwarzkopf trained at the Royal Porcelain Manufactory in Berlin . As part of their continuing education cooperation with the Academy of the Arts, he remained a student of Johann Gottfried Schadow even after his acquittal in 1790 .

He then worked at the Berlin porcelain factory, then from 1805 to 1811 at the Porzellanniederlage in Braunschweig .

From 1811 he worked together with Rauch's temporary teacher, Johann Christian Ruhl , as a modeller for the Fürstenberg porcelain factory in Fürstenberg an der Weser. There he created the busts of Napoleon and his brother King Jérôme of Westphalia (around 1811) and his wife Katharina von Württemberg (around 1807) out of bisque porcelain . After working as a modeller, he became an innkeeper.

literature

• Schwarzkopf, Karl Heinrich . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936, p. 369 .
• Christian Scherer: The Fürstenberg porcelain . Georg Reimer, Berlin 1909, III. The factory under Gerverot's management. (1795-1814) , pp. 176 ff., Here pp. 191–192 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Karin Annette Möller: Porcelain from Fürstenberg. Catalog, Schwerin 2002, No. 148, ISBN 3-86106-073-6 , p. 128 f.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Arnulf Siebeneicker: Officiants and Ouvriers. Walter de Gruyter 2002, p. 244 ff. ( Books.google.de ).
2. ↑ Möller: Porcelain from Fürstenberg. P. 115 f.