Roland Engelhard

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Roland Engelhard (born April 18, 1868 in Hanover ; † December 22, 1951 there ) was a German sculptor .

biography

Sculpture of Johann Heinrich Christian Striehl von Engelhard on the " House of the Striehl Orphan Foundation " built in 1897 by Hermann Schaedtler and others at the (then) Goseriede 4 ; Collotype after a photo by Georg Alpers in the Blätter für Architektur und Kunsthandwerk

Engelhard (also written Engelhardt) was a son of the sculptor Wilhelm Engelhard . He began his artistic studies in his father's studio and continued his education at the Berlin Academy under Otto Lessing and at the Vienna School of Applied Arts . During his studies in 1890/91 he became a member of the Polytechnisches Gesangverein , which later became the gymnastics club Hansea Hannover . From 1893 he worked in Hanover. In addition to portrait busts , his work mainly comprised grave monuments . As a result, around 1908, together with various architects and sculptors in Hanover, he founded the artists' association “Friedhofskunst”, because he wanted to design the tombs much more artistically than was customary up to now. One example is the grave monument of the artistic director at the Hanoverian Royal Theater Ludwig Barnay , erected in gray porphyry in 1926 . It shows three female figures who are supposed to mean past, present and future. He also created numerous portrait busts for grave monuments z. B. for the memorial of the psychiatrist Ferdinand Wahrendorff in Ilten near Hanover or the portrait medallion for the 1904 redesigned tombstone of Admiral Brommy in the Hammelwarden cemetery near Brake (Unterweser) . Copies of an angel figure were also made for various cemeteries (see below the tombs of Pleuss, Nolte, Schröder and Gebhardt). He created the Struckmeier fountain in Hanover and the sculptures of the gable field on the former ministerial building in Bückeburg , as well as numerous war memorials after the First World War . He had his studio in the disused bathing hall in Hanover at Friedrichstrasse 18.

At the great Berlin art exhibitions in 1896 and 1901 he was represented with relief portraits .

Engelhard died unmarried and found his final resting place at his father's side in the Engesohde city cemetery , where numerous tombs from his workshop have been preserved.

Honors

  • Golden Medal of the City of Hanover 1912
  • The Engelhardstrasse in Hanover (South City) was probably named after his father.

Works (selection)

Struckmeyer fountain in Hanover
Warrior grave in Wismar

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Roland Engelhard  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of members of the Hansea old gentlemen's association (EV) founded in 1848 as PGV, Hanover. Hanover April 1951, p. 13.
  2. ↑ a b Engelhard, Roland . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 10 : Dubolon – Erlwein . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1914, p. 541 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  3. ^ Wolfgang Neß: Südstadt. In monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , monuments in Lower Saxony, city of Hanover. Part 1, Volume 10.1, ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller, Lower Saxony State Administration Office - publications by the Institute for Monument Preservation , Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1985, ISBN 3-528-06208-8 , addendum directory of architectural monuments acc. § 4 (NDSchG) (except for architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation) / Status: July 1, 1985 / City of Hanover. P. 7 f.
  4. ^ Rainer Ertel , Ernst-Friedrich Roesener: Hannoversches Brunnenbuch. Fackelträger-Verlag GmbH, Hanover 1988, ISBN 3-7716-1497-X , p. 15, 88.
personal data
SURNAME Engelhard, Roland
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Engelhardt, Roland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 1951
Place of death Hanover