Robert Ockelmann

Ockelmann's medallion portrait by Guido Hammer, near the Heidemühle on the road to Hofwiese in the Dresdner Heide

Robert Heinrich Ockelmann (born October 6, 1849 in Hamburg ; † October 25, 1915 in Dresden ) was a German sculptor who, among other things, made figures from Meissen porcelain .

Life

Ockelmann studied from 1869 to 1872 at the Berlin Art Academy and from 1873 to 1883 at the Dresden Art Academy under Johannes Schilling, among others . From 1883 he had his own studio in Dresden . As a sculptor, he made small sculptures from Meissen porcelain . In 1903 he lived in Dresden at Wittenbergerstraße 21. There were sculptures and statues by him in Hamburg in the church of St. Nikolai , the town hall and the art gallery , as well as in the court theater and in the Albertinum in Dresden.

Works

• Sculpture group on the east facade of the Albertinum on the Brühlsche Terrasse in Dresden
• Ockelmann also made a medallion showing the painter Guido Hammer , Dresdner Heide
• Pulpit altar in the Loschwitz church , two sculptures of the apostles John and Paul
• Tomb for Karl Gustav Adolf Thomas in the cemetery of the Frauenkirche in Zittau (1887)
• After bathing (bronze statuette) exhibited in 1888 in the III. International art exhibition in the royal glass palace in Munich
• Satyr with a broken wine jug (bronze) exhibited from May 5 to September 16, 1900 in the Great Berlin Art Exhibition , in 1901 in the International Art Exhibition in Dresden and in 1904 in the Munich Annual Exhibition in the Royal Glass Palace.

literature

• Spiritual Germany at the end of the 19th century Century. Röder, Leipzig [among others] 1898. Volume 1.
• Ockelmann, Robert . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 557 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ Archive of the Dresden University of Fine Arts
2. ^ Hermann Alexander Müller, Hans Wolfgang Singer: Ockelmann, Robert . In: General Artist Lexicon . Literary Institute, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1895, p. 223 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
3. ↑ Ockelmann, Robert . In: Max Martersteig (Hrsg.): Yearbook of the fine arts . German Yearbook Society, Berlin 1903, Sp. 192 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
4. ↑ Illustrated catalog of the international art exhibition in the Königigl. Glass palace in Munich . Munich 1888, p. 183 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).