Paul Heermann

This article is about the sculptor Paul Heermann. For other people see Paul Hermann .

Shawm blowers (detail) at the Kronentor in the Dresden Zwinger

Paul Heermann (baptized January 23, 1673 in Weigmannsdorf in the Erzgebirge , † July 22, 1732 in Dresden ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Paul Heermann began an apprenticeship with his uncle, the sculptor George Heermann , at the age of twelve . In 1685 both worked in Troja near Prague . Together they made the stairs of Troy Castle with the figurative decorations. Between 1693 and 1700 Paul Heermann wandered through Italy with a stay in Rome . Around 1700 he was working in Prague again. In 1705 he married in Dresden and was back in Dresden. He became a freelance sculptor with Balthasar Permoser at the Zwinger in Dresden, where he created various sculptures, including the depiction of the Paris judgment on the Wallpavillon . In 1732 he was appointed court sculptor at the Saxon court. He also worked as a wood sculptor and restorer of the ancient world.

Works (selection)

Northern pair of herms

Works at Troja Castle in Prague for Wenzel Adalbert Graf von Sternberg († 1708):

• around 1700: Ceres (Demeter) and Diana (Artemis)
• 1703: sandstone figures Hercules (Herakles), Vulcan (Hephaistos) - sign. "P. Heermann fecit ”, Mars (Ares), Neptune (Poseidon), Saturn (Hades), Apollon, Mercury (Hermes) and Prometheus (Okeanus) for the outside staircase at the castle
• 1700–1708: Group of twelve busts to personify the continents, the elements and the times of day: Africa, America, Asia and Europe, earth, fire, air and water, morning, noon, evening and night

Works at the Zwinger in Dresden:

• 1716: Shawm blowers at the Kronentor
• 1717: the goddesses Venus , Juno (Hera), Minerva (Pallas Athene) and Paris at the Wallpavillon
• 1718: northern pair of herms
• 1720: Statue of a scholar at the Mathematisch-Physikalische Salon

Works in the city of Dresden:

• 1712: eight medallions at the Palais de Saxe and four busts of Roman emperors at the Palais Beichlingen (British Hotel)
• around 1720: marble busts of the seasons in the Albertinum
• around 1725: two copies of antiquities in front of the palace in the Great Garden ( Seleinus and Telephos as well as Bacchos and Dionysus )

Other works:

• 1703: Large epitaph of Maximilian von Schellendorf in the main church in Königsbrück
• 1714: Altar of the town church St. Wenzel in Lommatzsch
• 1720–1725: Venus and Amor and Apollon at the Pheasant Castle in Moritzburg
• 1721–1724: Altar of St. Thomas Church in Leipzig (collaboration on Born Altar )

literature

• Fritz Löffler : The Zwinger in Dresden. Dresden 1976, p. 39.
• Eike Schmidt : Paul Heermann: (1673-1732). Master of baroque sculpture in Bohemia and Saxony. new aspects of his work . S. Mehringer, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-9809470-1-7 .
• Sigfried Asche:  Heermann, Paul. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 197 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Paul Heermann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jiří Sehnal: Život a dílo vrcholně barokních sochařů Heermannů a Süssnerů from 17th to 18th stol. v německém a českém prostředí (Life and work of the baroque sculptors Heermann and Süssner in the 17th and 18th centuries in Germany and Bohemia), diploma thesis, Charles University Prague, 2009, with several individual documents, (Czech) (accessed June 20, 2017)
2. ↑ SKD - Werke von Heermann  ( 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. (accessed on June 20, 2017)