Robert Härtel

Carl August Robert Härtel (born February 21, 1831 in Weimar ; † May 5, 1894 in Breslau ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Härtel took drawing lessons from Friedrich Preller in Weimar and then became an apprentice to a goldsmith.

After visiting Munich, Dresden and Berlin, he found employment as a sculptor in the restoration work of the Wartburg and then joined Ernst Hähnel's studio in Dresden .

The figure of a squire was followed by a statue of poetry for the Grand Duchess of Weimar and, in 1868, a 36-meter-long frieze in high relief for the Grand Ducal Museum in Weimar with a representation of the Hermann battle and side friezes with the youth of the Germanic peoples and the admission of the heroes in Walhalla .

Härtel created a series of allegorical reliefs for the outside of the same building . Other works by him include a bronze shield with a relief representation of the war, the life of Julius Caesar , a colossal ore bust of the philosopher Jakob Friedrich Fries for Jena (1873), the war memorial for Weimar, the Kreon and Antigone group for the new court theater (Semperoper) in Dresden and several statues for the Albrechtsburg in Meißen .

In 1878 he was appointed as a teacher at the Royal Art and Trade School in Breslau , where he among other things created the bronze figures of Albrecht Dürer and Michelangelo and two gable figures for the Silesian Museum of Fine Arts , a statue of Kaiser Wilhelm I for the new government building and the memorial Frederick the Great for Tarnowitz .

In 1885 he became an honorary member of the old Breslau fraternity of the Raczeks .

Individual evidence

^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 278-279.

gallery

Monument to JF Fries at the Fürstengraben in Jena, 1873

Statues on the Semperoper in Dresden, 1878

Statue of Albrecht the Courageous in the Albrechtsburg Castle in Meißen, removed and melted down in 1876, 1951

Michelangelo's statue in front of the National Museum in Wroclaw , 1881

Statue of Albrecht Dürer in front of the National Museum in Breslau, 1882

personal data
SURNAME	Hartel, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Härtel, Carl August Robert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	February 21, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH	Weimar
DATE OF DEATH	May 5, 1894
Place of death	Wroclaw

[1] Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 278-279.