Ludwig Isenbeck

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Facade decoration at the Weinhaus Huth by Ludwig Isenbeck
Reliefs on Schöneberg Town Hall

Ludwig Isenbeck (born April 19, 1882 in Potsdam , † December 21, 1958 in Berlin ) was a German sculptor whose works adorn numerous public buildings in Berlin.

Some of his life

Isenbeck's ancestors come from Herringen in Westphalia (now part of Hamm ), which was then part of Prussia.

Isenbeck lived in Berlin-Friedenau , at Görresstrasse 16, where many other artists also lived, such as Wilhelm Haverkamp , Valentino Casal , Heinrich Missfeldt , and Georges Morin .

Isenbeck carried out sculptural work in stone, ceramics and metal, most of them for public buildings. In the implementation of designs for ceramic facade decorations, he worked (like other artists too) with Richard Blumenfeld's manufactory , who permanently burned the designed elements.

In addition to orders from the city of Berlin, Isenbeck also received some for the city of Hamm , certainly because of his family roots in this area.

Ludwig Isenbeck was a member of the jury at the art competition that was held on the occasion of the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin .

Ludwig Isenbeck designed, among other things, a tomb for the Neumünster factory owner Anton Sager, who died in 1951, as well as the memorial of the Schleswig-Holstein Infantry Regiment No. 163, whose garrison was also Neumünster , now in Boostedt .

Works (selection)

Detail on a pillar of the church "For the good news" in Berlin-Karlshorst
Figure of a mourner made of marble, in the mausoleum of the Moll family of manufacturers
Façade decoration at the former community school in Nithackstrasse
Bronze figure of Christ at the Christ Church in Berlin-Dahlem
Relief at the Anchark Church in Neumünster
Two of four identical diver representations above the portal of the Lichtenberg public bath in Berlin
  • Vier Winde-Brunnen , 1910, in Berlin at Leonorenstrasse 70 in front of the Lankwitz town hall : shell limestone, 5 meters high, 6 meters in diameter, created together with the architects Johannes Hinrichsen and Taubert; four mythical creatures at the foot of a pillar on which a female figure stands and holds a basket and a sickle in her hands
  • Jewelery on and in the church "Zur frohenachricht" in Berlin-Karlshorst , which was inaugurated in 1910, probably from the workshop of Isenbeck, who worked closely with the architects Peter Jürgensen and Jürgen Bachmann during this period (e.g. on the construction of the Schöneberg Town Hall)
  • Weinhaus Huth (wine and commercial building in Berlin on Potsdamer Platz ), 1911/12, shell limestone sculptures as facade decorations by Ludwig Isenbeck and Johannes Hinrichsen (see introductory picture)
  • Sculptures at Schöneberg Town Hall , 1911–1913, by Isenbeck and Hinrichsen
  • Former Leibniz-Realschule (today “Schiller-Oberschule”, State German-English European School) in Schillerstrasse 125–127 in Berlin-Charlottenburg , 1911–1913, facade decorations by Isenbeck and Hinrichsen
  • Figure of a mourner made of marble, in the mausoleum of the Moll family of manufacturers (owners of an iron foundry and an enamelling factory in St. Petersburg ), 1912/13, in the north cemetery of Neumünster , (the mausoleum comes from the architect Hans Roß )
  • External reliefs of the baptistery of the Anchark Church in Neumünster, 1912/13; again in cooperation with the architect of the church, Hans Roß
  • Former community school (in the 21st century Eosander-Schinkel-Grundschule ), 1913/14, in Nithackstraße in Berlin-Charlottenburg with the sculptures Four Seasons
  • Memorial for those killed in the First World War of the Schleswig-Holstein 163 Infantry Regiment, 1922, first on Gänsemarkt in Neumünster ; a naked soldier carved in stone, with a helmet and a laurel wreath in his left hand, is sunk in mourning; later moved to the Böcklersiedlung , Färberstraße 92
  • Figure for the Raabe fountain in Holzminden , 1927; the figure on the pillar represents Klaus Eckenbrecher, a fictional character from Wilhelm Raabe's work The Holy Born
  • Jumpers (4 starting swimmers) on the facade of the Lichtenberg public swimming pool , 1928
  • Christ , bronze, around 1931, at the Jesus Christ Church on Thielplatz (Hittorfstrasse / Faradayweg) in Berlin-Dahlem
  • Berlin city coat of arms at the bear kennel in Köllnischer Park , 1938/39
  • Christ sculpture and grave slabs made of shell limestone for the tomb of the cloth manufacturer Anton Sager, 1951, Nordfriedhof in Neumünster
  • Solo artwork standing bear , bronze on marble slab, 20 cm high (no year)

literature

Web links

Commons : Ludwig Isenbeck  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedhof Friedenau ( Memento from July 15, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  2. ↑ The Forgotten Olympiad , GoogleBooks
  3. ↑ Representation of historical graves in the north cemetery in Neumünster
  4. ^ Public fountains in Berlin - Senate Department for Urban Development
  5. ^ Homepage of a Berlin history association
  6. ^ Hainer Weißpflug: Schiller High School . In: Hans-Jürgen Mende , Kurt Wernicke (Hrsg.): Berliner Bezirkslexikon, Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf . Luisenstadt educational association . Haude and Spener / Edition Luisenstadt, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-7759-0479-4 ( luise-berlin.de - as of October 7, 2009).
  7. ↑ Hartwig Barg: Hans Roß 1873-1922 , Hamburg 1992, p. 124 ff.
  8. ↑ a b c Homepage “Garden Routes” from Neumünster
  9. ↑ District Office Charlottenbrg-Wilmersdorf
  10. ^ Hainer Weißpflug: Eosander / Schinkel primary school . In: Hans-Jürgen Mende , Kurt Wernicke (Hrsg.): Berliner Bezirkslexikon, Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf . Luisenstadt educational association . Haude and Spener / Edition Luisenstadt, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-7759-0479-4 ( luise-berlin.de - as of October 7, 2009).
  11. ^ Illustration of the memorial on a historical postcard; Year not noted on card , accessed September 24, 2012
  12. ↑ Stadtinformation Holzminden
  13. ^ Karl Seidel: On the history of the Köllnisches Park . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 7, 2001, ISSN  0944-5560 , p. 146-160 ( luise-berlin.de ).
  14. ↑ Auction information from an art house from February 2008
personal data
SURNAME Isenbeck, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 1958
Place of death Berlin