Ludwig Brunow
Carl Ludwig Friedrich Brunow (born July 9, 1843 in Lutheran ; † January 13, 1913 in Berlin-Schöneberg ) was a German sculptor .
Life
Ludwig Brunow was an illegitimate child of Sophia Brunow, the daughter of the sexton in Lutheran. He had to work as a shepherd boy at an early age, but with great diligence he quickly made up for his lack of schooling. He then completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter in Lübz . He worked as a journeyman in Rostock , where he also took drawing lessons.
Brunow initially wanted to emigrate to America in 1866, but then went to Berlin to study at the local building academy in the sculpture class with Eduard Lürssen . In 1867, at the instigation of Friedrich Eggers , who recognized his artistic talent, he moved to the Berlin Academy of the Arts . In 1871/73 he worked as an assistant and employee at Rudolf Siemering and Christian Genschow . The first award was the “Great Medal” at the World Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876 , followed in the same year by the Gold Cross of Merit of the Wendish Crown Mecklenburg-Schwerin and, in 1893, the appointment as “Grand Ducal Professor” with the award of the Knight's Cross of the Wendish Crown. In 1901 Brunow dissolved his large studio and withdrew from large orders.
In his spare time he devoted himself as a member of a private chamber music quartet of classical music (u a.. With Karl Eggers and Heinrich Seidel ). Franz Schwechten and Adolf Slaby were among his closest friends .
Brunow had been married to Anna Rosalie Amalie Clara Müller since 1889. Their only daughter died childless in 1909.
His grave in the Alten-12-Apostel-Kirchhof Berlin has been preserved without a tomb.
Services
The sculptural formal language of Brunow's works was initially shaped by that of his teacher Rudolf Siemering. However, he says he does not want to be pigeonholed. His figures are based on the voluminous forms of the neo- baroque , as he is particularly known from Reinhold Begas and Gustav Eberlein . Brunow's oeuvre, which is known to this day, shows mainly smaller works in his early creative period, followed by several large commissions. Contemporary criticism characterized Brunow as a respected artist who, in his modesty, conscious of his origins, did not strive for the highest reputation.
Works
Monuments, fountains, large sculptures
Person event motive |
image | Location whereabouts |
Kind of material |
Establishment of inauguration |
Further information |
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1870/71 |
Rostock , ramparts preserved |
Obelisk with reliefs sandstone, bronze |
September 9, 1872 | Memorial for the members of the Mecklenburg Fusilier Regiment who fell in 1870/71, based on an overall design by Richard Lucae | |
1870/71 |
Rostock , old cemetery destroyed |
Terracotta statue |
September 2, 1874 | Memorial for 26 Rostockers who fell in 1870/71 according to the overall design by Richard Lucae , damaged monument removed and destroyed in 1973 | |
H. v. Moltke |
|
Parchim , Moltkeplatz received |
Statue bronze |
October 2, 1876 | Main article: Moltkedenkmal (Parchim) |
H. v. Moltke |
Babelsberg , Feldherrenbank destroyed |
Bust bronze |
1882 | the remains of the Feldherrenbank are still there, but the 15 busts were destroyed (melted down, World War II) | |
Friedrich I. | Berlin-Mitte, hall of fame preserved |
Statue bronze |
1884 | the statue has been on the bastion of Hohenzollern Castle since 1961 | |
Friedrich Wilhelm II. | Berlin-Mitte, hall of fame preserved |
Statue bronze |
1884 | the statue has been on the bastion of Hohenzollern Castle since 1961 | |
Friedrich Wilhelm Kücken |
Schwerin received |
Must marble |
June 27, 1885 | two reliefs on the base of the monument: the imagination of the musician and the art of the musician | |
1870/71 Friedrich Franz II. And Wilhelm I. |
Lübz , market condition |
Obelisk with reliefs granite, bronze |
August 31, 1885 | the reliefs are a gift from the artist to his hometown | |
Paul Pogge | Rostock destroyed |
Bust bronze |
September 19, 1885 | the monument was dismantled in 1945, the bust was put into storage and only cleared out in 1970 | |
Gustav II Adolf |
Lützen , town hall received |
Sandstone statue |
1886 | Franz Lange took over the stone construction | |
Johann Albrecht I. |
(1st from left) |
Rostock, Ständehaus preserved |
Statue copper sheet |
1891 | belongs to an ensemble of 4 statues (the other two by Oskar Rassau ) |
Friedrich Franz II. |
(2nd from left) |
Rostock, Ständehaus preserved |
Statue copper sheet |
1891 | belongs to an ensemble of 4 statues |
Friedrich Franz II. | Schwerin, castle garden preserved |
Bronze equestrian statue |
August 24, 1893 | Main article: Equestrian monument to Friedrich Franz II. | |
Bismarck |
Elberfeld destroyed |
Statue bronze |
March 31, 1898 | Main article: Bismarck Monument (Elberfeld) | |
Duke Friedrich Wilhelm (Mecklenburg) | Kiel, garrison church preserved |
Relief bronze |
September 22, 1898 | the relief was renewed after it was lost in 1957 | |
Friedrich Franz II. |
Stoppenberg , hello destroyed |
Bust bronze |
1898 | melted down in World War II | |
Wilhelm I. |
Erfurt , Kaiserplatz destroyed |
Bronze equestrian statue |
August 25, 1900 | melted down in World War II | |
Friedrich Franz II. |
Görlitz , hall of fame destroyed |
Bust marble |
November 28, 1902 | Removed and destroyed by the Polish authorities in 1945, the building has been preserved as a cultural center | |
Ernst Dircksen | Berlin, Friedrichstrasse station. destroyed |
Bust bronze |
October 13, 1902 | melted down in World War II | |
Hermann Löhlein | Giessen lost |
marble | November 25, 1903 | probably destroyed with the main building of the women's clinic in the bombing raid on December 6, 1944 | |
Friedrich Stegemann |
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Parchim, Wall received |
Relief bronze |
1906 | after multiple damages today in the museum courtyard |
Large sculptures, fountains
motive | image | Location whereabouts |
Kind of material |
Establishment of inauguration |
Further information |
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Obotrite taming his horse |
Schwerin , castle bridge preserved |
Zinc casting | 1871, list 1873 | Brunow modeled the 1: 1 cast model, the design comes from Christian Genschow | |
allegorical figures (?) |
Kaarz , castle partially destroyed |
Zinc casting | 1873 | The type and scope of this work have not yet been documented | |
allegorical figures (?) |
Charlottenburg , Siemens villa destroyed |
Terracotta statues (?) |
around 1877 | In 1874/77 the Siemens villa in Charlottenburg (Berlinerstr. 34/36) was rebuilt and extended by Richard Lucae; the house was bombed in November 1943 | |
allegorical figures (?) |
Berlin-Mitte , Centralhotel destroyed |
Terracotta statues (?) |
around 1879 | The type and scope of this work have not yet been documented | |
Day and night |
|
Berlin-Kreuzberg , Anhalter Bahnhof preserved |
Monumental sculptures copper ( electroplating ) |
1880 | the two figures on the portico of the Anhalter Bahnhof were replaced by copies in 2004, the originals have been in the DTM ever since ; Brunow is also said to have made numerous terracottas for the building |
Pegasus |
Frankfurt / M. , Old Opera destroyed |
Monumental sculpture cast zinc |
October 20, 1880 | the original was destroyed in a bombing raid in 1944, today's Pegasus is a modern work from 1981 | |
Commercial representations |
Applied Arts preserved |
Berlin-Kreuzberg, Museum of Terracotta relief |
November 21, 1881 | the 88 reliefs with 12 motifs are a joint work with Rudolf Siemering; Brunow's contribution has not yet been precisely documented | |
Grave figure |
Melaten cemetery preserved |
Cologne, marble | 1886 | Felix Koenig's tomb; very badly damaged | |
Standard bearer |
preserved |
Rostock, Ständehaus Statue copper sheet |
1891 | as the crowning of the front middle gable | |
Laundress fountain |
destroyed |
Berlin, Inselplatz bronze | 1895 | bought by the city of Berlin; Stolen figurine in the 1920s, well dismantled afterwards | |
Laundress fountain |
destroyed |
Berlin, Achenbachstr. bronze | 1897 | enlarged and slightly modified version of the previous fountain in front of the artist's house |
Busts and portrait reliefs
person | image | Location whereabouts |
material | Dating | Further information |
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Friedrich Franz II of Mecklenburg | unknown | plaster | 1868 | after a bust by Christian Genschow | |
Heinrich Seidel | Image: SK Dresden | State Dresden Art Collection | plaster | 1870 | |
Helmut von Moltke | Parchim, Moltke Memorial | marble | 1875 | since 1871 several copies in plaster, bronze and marble sold, u. a. to Kaiser Wilhelm I: (lost) | |
Friedrich Eggers | Berlin, hut lost |
bronze | 1875 | also detectable several times in plaster (lost) | |
Freiherr vom Stein |
Stettin , town hall preserved |
marble | 1881 | the war-damaged bust today in the Muzeum Narodowe | |
Friedrich Franz II. | Schwerin, Arsenal lost |
plaster | 1884 | Until 1887 several times also verifiable in bronze and marble (lost) | |
Johann Albrecht of Mecklenburg | Schwerin, museum lost |
plaster | 1884 | Gift from the artist; Registered as missing since 1945 | |
Johann Heinrich von Thünen | Berlin, University received |
marble | 1889 | unveiled in January 1889 in the hall of honor of the agricultural faculty (Invalidenstrasse); received a plaster copy in the Thünen Museum Tellow | |
Georg Adolf Demmler Henriette Demmler (reliefs) |
Schwerin, Demmler mausoleum preserved |
marble | before 1886? | exact dating not possible | |
Privy Councilor von Koppelow (relief) |
unknown | unknown | 1891 | Portrait relief not yet assignable | |
Werner from Siemens | Berlin lost |
plaster | 1892 | Cast in 1893 as a monumental bust for the World's Columbian Exposition (see below) | |
Werner from Siemens | Berlin, Siemens headquarters | bronze | 1893 | ||
Johann Georg Halske | Berlin, Märkisches Museum | bronze | 1893 | ||
Lieutenant General Alfred von Rauch | unknown | unknown | 1893 | Lieutenant General of the Infantry; exact assignment not possible | |
Emil Pohl | unknown | unknown | 1894 | Bust of the writer Emil Pohl | |
Friedrich Franz III. of Mecklenburg | unknown | bronze | 1897 | offered as over-the-counter catalog items | |
Herr von Heimburg | unknown | unknown | before 1898 | no more precise information possible | |
Adolf Hermann Jaeger | Elberfeld, town hall destroyed |
marble | 1898 | Bust of the mayor; lost since the destruction of the town hall in 1943 | |
Karl Eggers | Rostock, museum lost |
plaster | before 1900 | Donated to the museum by the family after Eggers' death along with a portrait relief | |
Karl Eggers (relief) |
Rostock, museum lost |
plaster | before 1900 | Donated to the museum by the family after Eggers' death along with the above bust | |
Friedrich Schlie | Schwerin, State. Museum preserved |
marble | 1902 | commissioned by the museum, whose director was Schlie | |
Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia | Berlin, mansion lost |
marble | 1905 | for the Prussian House of Representatives | |
Otto Büsing | Schwerin, State. Museum preserved |
marble | 1907 | Donated to the museum in 1932 from the estate of Mrs. Büsing | |
Ludwig Brunow (relief) |
Berlin, Age-12-Apostel-Friedhof destroyed |
bronze | 1909? | for the tomb of the Brunow family | |
Klara Brunow (relief) |
Berlin, Age-12-Apostel-Friedhof destroyed |
bronze | 1909? | for the tomb of the Brunow family (wife of the artist, d. 1938) | |
Sophia Feldt, b. Brunow (relief) |
Berlin, Age-12-Apostel-Friedhof destroyed |
bronze | 1909? | for the tomb of the Brunow family (daughter of the artist, d. 1909) | |
Hans Ferdinand Feldt (relief) |
Berlin, Age-12-Apostel-Friedhof destroyed |
bronze | 1909? | for the tomb of the Brunow family (the artist's son-in-law) | |
Otto Drewes (relief) |
Schwerin, old cemetery preserved |
bronze | 1910 | for the tomb of the chamber singer |
Small sculptures, reliefs, designs
motive | image | Location whereabouts |
material | Dating | Further information |
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Female nude (statuette) |
unknown | plaster | 1869 | Thesis | |
Mercy (relief) |
for a poor house in Berlin | Terracotta? | 1870 | no classification possible | |
The messenger of love (statuette) |
Kaarz Castle lost |
marble | 1870/76 | Model 1870, marble 1876; several specimens in plaster detectable (lost) | |
Borussia (statuette) |
unknown | Bronze? | 1870 | for an unnamed military jubilee | |
The bride of Corinth (relief) |
unknown | plaster | 1871 | sold in numerous copies | |
Bacchus boy (statuette) |
L. Brunow missing |
plaster | 1873 | Design for a fountain | |
Sweet home (relief) |
Erfurt, Angermuseum lost |
plaster | 1873 | also referred to as family happiness or a happy family; sold several times | |
Dream come true (statuette) |
unknown | Bronze marble |
1870 | manufactured and sold several times in different materials | |
Draft Honved Monument | L. Brunow missing |
plaster | 1876 | no further details possible | |
Adalbert of Prussia (monument draft) |
L. Brunow missing |
plaster | 1879 | for a statue in Wilhelmshaven (commissioned by Karl Schuler ) | |
Father Rhine (centerpiece) |
Imperial art possession lost |
silver | 1881/83 | Part of the so-called city silver for the wedding of Prince Wilhelm | |
Friedrich Franz II (monument draft) |
L. Brunow missing |
plaster | 1883 | Competition design; Hugo Berwald received the order | |
Panther hunter (statuette) |
Privately owned | bronze | 1884 | sold several times in bronze | |
Wilhelm I. (monument draft) |
L. Brunow missing |
plaster | 1889 | Design for an emperor / war memorial in Stettin (2nd prize); Karl Hilgers received the order | |
Joachim II (draft) |
L. Brunow destroyed |
volume | 1891 | planned for the decoration of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin; unrealized | |
Equestrian figure Friedrich Franz II. | L. Brunow private property |
Zinc casting | 1893/95 | Replica of the figure from the equestrian monument in Schwerin | |
Entry of the Grand Duke into Schwerin 1871 (relief) |
L. Brunow missing |
bronze | 1893 | Copy of a base relief of the equestrian monument in Schwerin (see above) | |
Bismarck (monument draft) |
L. Brunow missing |
plaster | 1894 | Design for the Bismarck National Monument in Berlin (2nd prize); Reinhold Begas received the order | |
The Hagestolz (relief) |
Erfurt, Angermuseum lost |
plaster | before 1898 | from the artist in 1898 as a gift | |
Elberfeld Poor Care Memorial (draft) |
L. Brunow missing |
plaster | 1901 | Competition design for Elberfeld (2nd prize); Wilhelm Neumann-Torborg received the order |
literature
- Brunow, Ludwig . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 5 : Brewer-Carlingen . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1911, p. 144 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Brunow, Ludwig . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 5 : V-Z. Supplements: A-G . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1961, p. 346 .
- Fred Ruchhöft: From the life of the sculptor Ludwig Brunow. In: Stier and Greif Volume 4, 1994, pp. 62-65.
- Fred Ruchhöft: Brunow, Ludwig . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 14, Saur, Munich a. a. 1996, ISBN 3-598-22754-X , p. 579.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Death register StA Schöneberg II, No. 38/1913
- ↑ Marriage register StA Deutsch-Wilmersdorf, No. 14/1889
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Brunow, Ludwig |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brunow, Carl Ludwig Friedrich |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 9, 1843 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Lutheran |
DATE OF DEATH | January 13, 1913 |
Place of death | Berlin-Schöneberg |