Ludwig Vierthaler
Ludwig Vierthaler (born January 16, 1875 in Munich , † March 4, 1967 in Hanover ; full name Ludwig Karl Maria Vierthaler ) was a German sculptor who was one of the most important Hanoverian artists of the 20th century.
Life
After studying at the Munich School of Applied Arts , Vierthaler initially worked as a small sculptor in Bruno Paul’s studio in Berlin. In 1915 he took up a job at the Hanover School of Crafts and Applied Arts . From 1920 he was also a lecturer at the Technical University of Hanover . In 1921 he became a member of the Hanover Art Association and on July 31, 1922 he was appointed honorary professor. Since the 1930s his studio has been in Friedrich Kaulbach's villa on Waterloostrasse.
In 1945 Vierthaler initiated the establishment of the Association of Visual Artists for Northern Germany , of which he was first chairman until 1953.
He organized the first North German art exhibition after the war, which took place in 1946 in the Herrenhausen Gardens in Hanover.
Ludwig Vierthaler was buried in the Engesohde city cemetery .
Honors
Ludwig Vierthaler has received numerous awards for his works, which still shape the cityscape of Hanover today, including:
- 1960: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class;
- 1960: Honorary membership of the Hanover Art Association ;
- 1963: Hannover city badge ;
- 1977 1966 scale was Arthur-Menge-way in Vierthalerweg renamed.
Works
Hanover
- Design of the new town hall
- Design of the Pelikan factory
- Structure of the Norddeutsche Landesbank
- Design of the Bahlsen biscuit factory
- Pelican fountain on the Eilenriede
- Georg von Cölln House (1911)
- Mythical Beast in the Eilenriede (1931)
- Portal of the Grotehaus (1949)
- Arthur Lot Fountain (1964)
- Grave monument for General Otto von Emmich in the Engesohde city cemetery
Utility art
Ludwig Vierthaler had his craft designs , for example for various types of candlesticks , lamps and flower bowls , produced in the 1920s, especially in Metallkunst Herrenhausen (from 1923: Metallkunst Aktiengesellschaft Hannover ), for example
- around 1920: octagonal ceiling lamp in pyramid shape with relief-like ornaments on the metal edge;
- around 1921:
- Cast brass chandelier with the monogram "LV", faceted base, shaft as an expressive representation of an Art Deco figure , carrying three arms with candle sleeves , height 39.5 cm
- Flower bowl with three male, kneeling bearer figures as feet
literature
- German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 10, p. 207.
- Vierthaler, Ludwig . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 34 : Urliens – Vzal . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1940, p. 341 .
- Ehrtfried Böhm (texts), Reinhold Lessmann (photos): New sculpture in Hanover. Sense of art, patronage, urban aesthetics. An example in the mirror of two decades. Steinbock-Verlag, Hannover 1967, p. 84 and more often.
- Ludwig Zerull : Art without a roof. Sculptures and objects in the cityscape of Hanover. Schäfer, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-88746-278-5 , p. 192
- Helga Hilschenz (research associate), Bernd Fritz ( editing ): Vierthaler, Ludwig , in this: Rosenthal, one hundred years of porcelain. Exhibition, Kestner Museum, Hanover , leaflet and catalog for the exhibition of the same name from April 29 to June 13, 1982 in the Kestner Museum Hanover, as well as from June 20 to August 15, 1982 in the Focke Museum in Bremen and from September 10th until October 31, 1982 in the Kunstgewerbemuseum Cologne in the Overstolzenhaus, ed. for the Kestner-Museum, Hanover, Stuttgart: Union-Verlag, 1982, ISBN 978-3-8139-5604-7 and ISBN 3-8139-5604-0 , pp. 200f. u.ö.
- Klaus Mlynek and others: Vierthaler. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , pp. 36, 47, 76, 80, 109, 113, 250, 334, 365 and others, especially p. 370. (Reading sample, books.google .de ).
- Klaus Mlynek and others: Vierthaler. In: Hanover Chronicle . Pp. 157, 170, 202, 252, 258, 261 and more often. (restricted view, books.google.de ).
- Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Vierthaler. In: Hanover Art and Culture Lexicon . Pp. 38 ff., 75 f., 84, 95, 100 f., 103, 121 f., 133, 192, 205, 228 f., 231.
- Hugo Thielen: Vierthaler, Ludwig. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 643.
- Paul Trommsdorff: The faculty of the Technical University of Hanover 1831-1931. Hanover 1931, p. 110.
- Nikolai Stula: Ludwig Vierthaler (1875–1967). Life and work. Dissertation, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, 1998.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Museums have a hard time. In: Klaus Mlynek , Waldemar R. Röhrbein (ed.): History of the City of Hanover, Volume 2, From the beginning of the 19th century to the present. (with the collaboration of Dieter Brosius , Carl-Hans Hauptmeyer , Siegfried Müller and Helmut Plath ) Schlütersche, Hannover 1994, ISBN 3-87706-364-0 , p. 640 (restricted view, books.google.de ).
- ↑ a b c d e f g Hugo Thielen: Vierthaler, Ludwig. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon. P. 370.
- ^ Hanseatic collector's account for historical securities: Metallkunst AG Hannover , share from 1923
- ^ Art and auction house Kastern : ceiling lamp Metallkunst GmbH, Hanover, Herrenhausen, around 1920
- ↑ Mehlis auction house: Ludwig Vierthaler, Leuchter ( Memento of the original from May 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , around 1921
- ^ Zezschwitz auction house: Ludwig Vierthaler: Large flower bowl, 1921 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Vierthaler, Ludwig |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Vierthaler, Ludwig Karl Maria (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 16, 1875 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
DATE OF DEATH | March 4th 1967 |
Place of death | Hanover |