Robert Diez
Robert Diez (born April 20, 1844 in Pößneck , † October 7, 1922 in Dresden ) was a German sculptor .
Life
Robert Diez attended the Bernhardinum grammar school in Meiningen , where he lived with his uncle, the court painter Samuel Friedrich Diez . His artistic training began in 1863 at the Dresden Academy of the Arts , from 1867 he was a student of Johannes Schilling . From 1873 he worked independently. In 1881 he became an honorary member of the Dresden Academy. Diez was Hähnel's successor in the master's workshop for sculpture and a member of the Academic Council, and in 1891 he was appointed professor at the Art Academy. In 1895 Diez married Luise Calberla (1852–1935), daughter of the Dresden merchant Gustav Moritz Calberla (1809–1906) and Luise Roegner (1822–1898), who acted as administrator of the extensive Calberla possessions. In 1901 he received a large gold medal at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition . In 1909 he was a founding member of the Dresden Artists' Association . In 1912 he received the rank of secret council and in 1915 an honorary doctorate from the University of Veterinary Medicine in Dresden .
Ernst Barlach , Richard Daniel Fabricius and Selmar Werner were among his master students in Dresden .
The Diez family lived on Calberlastrasse in Loschwitz , which was incorporated into Dresden in 1921. His grave is in the Inner Neustädter Friedhof in Dresden.
Works
- Dresden:
- Goose thief well . In 1878 the sculpture won the large gold medal at the international art exhibition in Munich . The fountain is now in the " Weißen Gasse ", replicas of it in Pößneck and Dresden, among others .
- Bismarck Monument in Seestrasse (1903)
- Twin fountains “Still Waters” and “Stormy Waves” on Albertplatz
- Bronze medallions at the Albertinum , the former Dresden armory
- Bronze sculpture "Mourning Woman / Tranquility" and the two portrait medallions of the grave complex for Felix Schweighofer on the Ev.-Luth. Johannisfriedhof in Dresden Tolkewitz
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Braunschweig :
- Victory monument, design by Adolf Breymann , completed after his death with the group of figures “Homecoming of the Warrior” by Robert Diez in 1881, executed by Hermann Heinrich Howaldt
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Meiningen :
- Bechstein Fountain , in the English Garden , dedicated to the fairy tale poet Ludwig Bechstein in 1909 .
Picture gallery
Dresden:
Unveiling of the Bismarck monument
Dresden:
Fountain "Stormy Waves"
Dresden:
goose thief fountain
Meiningen:
Bechstein fountain
Berlin: Allegory of the brewery on the southwest tower of the Reichstag building
literature
- Ernst Sigismund : Diez, Robert . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 9 : Delaulne-Dubois . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1913, p. 281–282 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
- Ernst-Günter Knüppel: Robert Diez. Sculpture between Romanticism and Art Nouveau. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-86583-355-6 .
Web links
- Robert Diez romana-hamburg.de
- Robert Diez in the Stadtwiki Dresden
Individual evidence
- ↑ Calberla, Gustav Moritz, Kaufmann (1809–1906) , on elbhangkurier.de, accessed on August 17, 2020
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Diez, Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 20, 1844 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Poessneck |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 7, 1922 |
| Place of death | Dresden |