Richard Daniel Fabricius

Richard Daniel Fabricius

Richard Wilhelm Daniel Fabricius (born February 23, 1863 in Berlin , † October 19, 1923 in Dresden ) was a German sculptor and medalist .

Life

Ball thrower (1907), Dresden

Kneeling mourners, Leipzig

Richard Daniel Fabricius studied from 1880 at the Berlin Art Academy with Reinhold Begas and Fritz Schaper, among others . In 1884 he had to interrupt his studies for financial reasons. He went to Dresden, briefly headed a photo studio and was Robert Diez's master student from 1892 to 1895 . From 1898 Fabricius worked as a freelance sculptor in Dresden; his studio was on today's Wägnerstrasse 6 in Blasewitz. Fabricius lived and worked in Berlin between 1910 and 1916, but then returned to Dresden. He died here in 1923.

Fabricius executed his works in a natural way in strict classical forms. His best-known work is the ball thrower in front of the Hygiene Museum in Dresden, which was not restored from war-related damage until 1983 by the Dresden sculptor Wilhelm Landgraf and the Karl Bergmann company . A version of the ball thrower was created for the USA, but here with a fig leaf. Another work by Fabricius are the angels at the Fonrobert burial site in Cemetery II of the French Reformed Congregation on Liesenstrasse in Berlin.

Richard Fabricius was a member of the German Association of Artists .

Works (selection)

• 1904: Paulus portal figure , Moritzburg Church
• 1907: Ball thrower, colossal statue in bronze in front of the Hygiene Museum, Dresden
• 1907: two angels, Fonrobert tomb, New French Cemetery, Berlin
• 1909: two angels, altar area, Annenkirche , Dresden
• 1909: Christ blessing, statuette in the confessional sacristy of the Annenkirche, Dresden
• Kneeling mourners, Schindler tomb, Südfriedhof , Leipzig

literature

• Fabricius, Richard Wilhelm Daniel . In: Ernst-Günter Knüppel: Robert Diez. Sculpture between Romanticism and Art Nouveau . Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2009, pp. 170–171.

Web links

Commons : Richard Daniel Fabricius  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Richard Fabricius. Artist. German Society for Medal Art, accessed on November 7, 2015 . 
2. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the Deutscher Künstlerbund since it was founded in 1903 / Fabricius, Richard ( Memento of the original from March 4, 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. (accessed on November 7, 2015) 
3. ↑ See presentation of the grave on paul-benndorf-gesellschaft.de ( memento of the original from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.