Oswald Rommel senior

Oswald Rommel senior (* 1844 ; † 1924 ) was a German sculptor .

Life

One of Rommel's preserved sculptures on the group of villas built by Heinrich Köhler on the Schiffgraben in Hanover from 1872 to 1875

Figure decorations at the listed Villa Coppel at Emmichplatz 4 in Hanover

family

Oswald Rommel was the son of the artist and librarian of the later Leibniz University Ernst Rommel and the father of the sculptors Oswald Rommel junior (* 1878) and Elsbeth Rommel (* 1879).

Career

Oswald Rommel studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in the 1860s . Later he settled in Hanover .

According to a note in the announcement of the association of former students of the Realgymnasium dated December 20, 1933, "[...] a large part of the artistic decoration on the New Town Hall " in Hanover would have been "[...] the last work" by Oswald Rommel , however, until 2013 there was no further evidence to support this statement.

Preserved works (selection)

in Hannover

on the group of villas at Emmichplatz built by the architect Heinrich Köhler from 1872 to 1875 along the ship moat
:
- Figure decorations at the Villa Coppel, built for the banker Simon Coppel, at Emmichplatz 4 at the corner of Schiffgraben
- Villas at Schiffgraben 53 and Schiffgraben 57

The facade decoration on the former Bartels bank at Rathenaustraße 3 , built around 1900 by the architect Friedrich Geb , while the figurative decoration by Rommel was only added when the roof zone was rebuilt in 1910

Web links

Commons : Oswald Rommel senior - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Karin Ehrich: Hanover's women and the new town hall. In: Cornelia Regin (Ed.): Splendor and Power. Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the inauguration of the New Town Hall in Hanover. In the series Hannoversche Studien , Volume 14. Hahn, Hannover 2013, ISBN 978-3-7752-4964-5 , pp. 381-408; here: p. 402f. and notes according to Werner Heine from the Hanover City Archives , Oswald Rommel registration card .
↑ ^a ^b ^c Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Rommel, Oswald. In: dies .: Hanover. Art and culture lexicon . Handbook and city guide. New edition, 4 ,. updated and expanded edition, to Klampen Verlag, Springe 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , passim .

personal data
SURNAME	Rommel, Oswald senior
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	1844
DATE OF DEATH	1924

[Hannovers_Frauen-1] Karin Ehrich: Hanover's women and the new town hall. In: Cornelia Regin (Ed.): Splendor and Power. Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the inauguration of the New Town Hall in Hanover. In the series Hannoversche Studien , Volume 14. Hahn, Hannover 2013, ISBN 978-3-7752-4964-5 , pp. 381-408; here: p. 402f. and notes according to Werner Heine from the Hanover City Archives , Oswald Rommel registration card .

[HKuKL-2] Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Rommel, Oswald. In: dies .: Hanover. Art and culture lexicon . Handbook and city guide. New edition, 4 ,. updated and expanded edition, to Klampen Verlag, Springe 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , passim .