Robert Henze

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Henze's grave with a new tombstone in the Old Annenfriedhof

Robert Eduard Henze (born July 8, 1827 in Dresden ; † April 3, 1906 there ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Henze initially learned the metalworking trade, but demonstrated a great talent for drawing, so that from 1856 he attended the Dresden Art Academy . He became a student of Ernst Rietschel , who took him into his studio in 1858. After his death he was trained as a sculptor by Johannes Schilling and Ernst Hähnel . In 1866 and 1867 he went on a study trip to Italy. Robert Henze was made an honorary member of the Dresden Art Academy in 1881.

He last lived on the ground floor of Chemnitzer Strasse 59 in the Südvorstadt , his studio was on the eastern parallel street in the house Hohe Strasse 54 in Dresden-Plauen.

Henze died in Dresden in 1906 and was buried in the Old Annenfriedhof . His grave was considered to be particularly worthy of preservation , but it was ultimately dilapidated, and the grave decoration created by Henze himself - a floating psyche - has not been preserved. In 2011 the grave received a new stone.

portrait

Henze's portrait can be found on a bronze medal from 1902 (33.5 mm). The description of the obverse is ROBERT HENZE <> * 8 JULY 1827. --- Bearded bust with cap and dress attachment to l. On the back are the three lines SEINEN / FREUNDEN / 1902 .

In the Dresden City Museum there is a bronze relief measuring 26 × 20 cm. It is a self-portrait of Robert Henze in profile from 1902 with the inscription Robert Henze in the 74th Lenze . It is pictured in the work of Dr. Georg Beutel: "Portraits of outstanding Dresden residents from five centuries", Dresden 1908.

Works

Before the system created by Robert Henze Anne monument again before the Anne Church was transferred, it was on the old Anne Cemetery in Dresden.

In 1863 (unveiled on April 23), Robert Henze created the fountain statue of Heinrich I for the city of Meissen , whose overall impression and careful execution were widely recognized.

This was followed by the model of the ore statue of "Mother Anna", Electress of Saxony , which has since been set up again in front of the restored Annenkirche in Dresden on Freiberger Platz, a Germania for the victory celebration in Dresden in 1871, a fountain statue for Crimmitschau that personifies the commercial city , Drafts for the statues of the princes of the Wettin dynasty for the Albrechtsburg in Meißen and the ore statue of Prince Wolfgang von Anhalt for Bernburg (Saale) .

Henze's main work was the marble victory monument , which was inaugurated on September 1, 1880 on Dresden's Altmarkt . The monument represented a colossal Germania, with its head crowned, the banner in its raised right hand, leaning on the shield with its left hand, while the four allegorical figures surrounding the pedestal represent peace, military strength, science and religion represented. The Germania monument was destroyed for political reasons in June 1949 - before the GDR was founded. The head of the Germania monument is in the Dresden City Museum .

In 1885 a bronze figure of the entrepreneur Barbara Uthmann was created for the city of Annaberg , and in 1893 a bronze bust of Adam Ries for his monument, also in Annaberg. The latter was melted down in 1943 . A sandstone copy was set up in 1953, later stored again and was exposed to vandalism after being set up again. Today it stands in front of the Adam Ries Museum.

Henze created the figures of the prophets Jeremiah , Isaiah , Daniel and Ezekiel from French limestone on the St. Mark's Church in Dresden, which was built between 1886 and 1888 .

Henze's best-known works are the 1890 drafts of three monumental copper drifting works for the Dresden Art Academy on the Brühlsche Terrasse , Phantasos and Eros , as well as a 4.8 meter high fama for the glass dome of the adjacent exhibition building . The well-known copper driver, Hermann Howaldt , died in 1891 while working on the Fama after a tragic fall from the scaffolding. The Dresden sculptor Paul Rinckleben took care of the further completion by 1893 .

1901/02 he created for the community Plauen near Dresden , where he now once called home, the charming Müller well the figure of the miller's apprentice.

  • Uthmann fountain in Annaberg (reconstruction)

  • Fama, Dresden Art Academy

  • Adam Ries monument at St. Trinity Church in Annaberg-Buchholz (reconstruction; implemented in 2010)

  • Head of the former Germania monument in Dresden

  • Relief work by Henze on the grave of the industrialist Gottlieb Traugott Bienert in Dresden

  • Bienert monument in Dresden

  • Miller's fountain with miller's boy in Dresden-Plauen (copy from 1986, the original was melted down in 1942)

  • Heinrichsbrunnen in Meissen

  • Grave of the Bernhardt family in the Annenfriedhof in Dresden

literature

  • Peter Rochhaus : Eduard Robert Henze in Annaberg-Buchholz - His monuments in Annaberg-Buchholz with a preliminary catalog raisonné of the sculptures and drawings. Grin-Verlag, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-656-87104-0 .

Web links

Commons : Robert Henze  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Address book for Dresden and its suburbs (...) 1906. Part 1, p. 321. ( Digital copy from SLUB Dresden )
  2. ↑ A copy can be found in the Stadtwiki Dresden .
  3. ↑ Illustrirte Zeitung of May 2, 1863, p. 299
  4. ↑ a b The Adam Ries Monument. Adam Ries Bund, accessed January 15, 2016 .

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personal data
SURNAME Henze, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Henze, Robert Eduard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 1906
Place of death Dresden