Lilli Wislicenus-Finzelberg

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Lilli Wislicenus-Finzelberg, painted by Hans Wislicenus (1907)
Mourners at the Wislicenus-Finzelberg family grave

Lilli Wislicenus-Finzelberg (born November 5, 1872 in Andernach as Elisabeth Emma Charlotte Finzelberg , † December 14, 1939 in Berlin ) was a German sculptor .

Life

After her sister Helene (* 1869), Lilli Finzelberg was the second daughter of Hermann Finzelberg, a chemist at Schering in Berlin. She left Andernach at the age of nine and lived with her uncle, the painter Hermann Wislicenus, in Düsseldorf until she was 15 .

She studied sculpture at the Technical University of Charlottenburg with the lecturers Otto Geyer and Adolf Jahn . Through her father, she was introduced to Otto von Bismarck , who modeled a bust for her. She gave him her work Farmer Boy with Two Flower Pots , which he liked so much that he set it up in a prominent place in his reception room in Friedrichsruh .

In 1896 she married her cousin, the painter Hans Wislicenus, with whom she had grown up. From then on Lilli Finzelberg signed her sculptures with the artist name Lilli Wislicenus-Finzelberg . The couple had a son, Hans Hermann Wislicenus, who, like his father, became a painter and used the stage name Jean Visly .

Lilli and Hans Wislicenus died in December 1939 one day apart. They were buried in the Wilmersdorf cemetery in Berlin. The family grave was decorated with a sculpture of a mourning woman, which Lilli Wislicenus-Finzelberg created herself in 1910.

Work (selection)

  • Portrait bust (Great Berlin Art Exhibition 1901)

  • Frieze for a music room (published 1901)

  • Reliefs on the tomb of the Paul Köthner family (around 1903)

  • Sculpture "Spring Awakening" (around 1910)

  • Portrait relief on the tomb for Hedwig Maaß (undated)

  • Robbery of Europe (undated)

  • 1892: Portrait relief (bronze) for the tomb of the industrialist Louis Schwartzkopff , on the Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof in Berlin
  • exhibited in 1901: portrait bust (of an unnamed man), Great Berlin Art Exhibition 1901
  • published in 1901: Frieze for a music room, based on a song by Franz Schubert
  • 1902: Reliefs for the tomb of Emil Götze , on the Luisenfriedhof III in Berlin (not preserved)
  • around 1903: Reliefs on the grave of the Paul Köthner family in the Friedrichswerderscher Friedhof in Berlin
  • 1910: Mourners (bronze) at the Wislicenus-Finzelberg tomb (another specimen on the Vvedenskoye cemetery in Moscow)
  • around 1906: Portrait bust of the Prussian Minister Hermann von Budde for his tomb in Bensberg
  • around 1910: Sculpture Fühlingserwachen
  • 1915: Bismarck statue (bronze) in the pillared hall of the Bismarck tower in Rathenow (melted down in 1942)
  • approx. 1920: standing female nude with tied hands and a headband (bronze, 66 cm)
  • approx. 1920: Memorial of the fallen soldiers of the Technical University (Berlin-) Charlottenburg

and undated:

  • Farm boy with two flower pots (owned by Otto von Bismarck)
  • Portrait relief on the tomb for Hedwig Maaß , in the cemetery in Fürstenberg / Havel
  • Robbery of Europe (bronze, 48 cm)
  • Gänselieschen (bronze, 57 cm)
  • Diana (bronze, 82 cm)
  • Girl with doll

Quote

The writer Paul Oskar Höcker , who served as a captain and company commander in the field during the First World War , wrote to his family from his quarters in Belgium :

“My quarters contain an elegant coffee table, a chair with a wash bowl, a mattress on the floor and a dear old friend on the mantelpiece. This is a plaster cast of the boy with the frog that a dear artistic friend, Ms. Lili Wislicenus-Finzelberg, modeled when she was sixteen. The little boy is at home on my youngest daughter's play cupboard, and I send him greetings to Westend , where there is a birthday child on Sedan Day , from whom I don't know whether he has received my field post letter ... "

literature

  • Klaus Schäfer: Notes on the life and work of the sculptor Lilli Wislicenus-Finzelberg. In: Historischer Verein Andernach eV (Ed.): Andernacher Annalen , 8 (2009), pp. 139–155.

Web links

Commons : Lilli Wislicenus-Finzelberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Wislicenus, Lilli . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 36 : Wilhelmy-Zyzywi . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1947, p. 108 .
  2. ↑ Biography Jean Visly on wislicenus.info , accessed on 23 November 2012 found.
  3. ↑ Berlin architecture world . 4th year, 1902, issue 6, September 1901, p. 158 ( digital.zlb.de ).
  4. ↑ Berlin architecture world. 4th year, 1902, issue 8, November 1901, p. 252 ( digital.zlb.de ).
  5. ↑ Birgit Jochens, Herbert May: The cemeteries in Berlin-Charlottenburg. History of the cemetery facilities and their tomb culture. Stapp Verlag, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-87776-056-2 , p. 120.
  6. ↑ Berlin architecture world. 7th year, 1905, issue 6, September 1904, p. 180 ( digital.zlb.de ).
  7. ^ Photo of the mourning sculpture in the Vvedenskoye Cemetery in Moscow
  8. ↑ Ulrich Wanke: Rathenow, Otto von Bismarck and the Bismarck Tower. In: Brandenburg Monument Preservation. 4th year 1995, issue 2, pp. 78-84. ( havelland.de PDF; 8.98 MB).
  9. ↑ Bismarck Tower Rathenow on bismarcktuerme.de , accessed on November 23, 2012.
  10. ↑ a b Images on wislicenus.info accessed on November 23, 2012.
  11. ↑ Presentation of the sculpture at a Canadian antique dealer , further photographs at a US gallery: jennmaur.com jennmaur.com jennmaur.com
  12. ↑ Reference in an auction portal
  13. ↑ Description and photo
  14. ^ Letter from Captain Paul Oskar Höcker, company commander ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Wislicenus-Finzelberg, Lilli
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wislicenus, Lilli; Wislicenus, Elisabeth; Finzelberg, Elisabeth Emma Charlotte (maiden name, full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Then after
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1939
Place of death Berlin