Stephan Sinding

Stephan Sinding.

The sculptor at work on his monumental group "Mother Earth"

Stephan Abel Sinding (born August 4, 1846 in Trondheim , † January 23, 1922 in Paris ) was a Danish-Norwegian sculptor .

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Sinding was the son of Mathias Vilhelm Sinding and his wife Cecilie Marie (nee Mejdell) and the brother of the composer Christian Sinding . From 1865 he studied philosophy and law in Christiania , where he obtained his doctorate, but then turned to sculpture. In 1871 he went to Berlin, where he was a student of Albert Wolff for a while.

His strangest and greatest work is the colossal group Mother Earth ( Moder Jord ), which is set up in the courtyard of the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen and which he worked on throughout 1900. As the actual motif and first name for this sculpture, which was created in one of the most difficult times in Sinding, he had in mind Terra mater, ultimum refugium : the mother as the last refuge of man who threatens to succumb under the burden of suffering.

Sindings famous works include statues by the Norwegian poets Henrik Ibsen and Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson , which were erected in front of the Nationaltheatret in Oslo.

Stephan Sinding died on January 23, 1922 in Paris and found his final resting place in the Père Lachaise cemetery (Division 82).

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  Widowed

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  Barbarian mother

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  Sindings Valkyrie , in Copenhagen , 1908

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  Adoration i

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  Adoration, around 1900 (Thürmsdorf Castle Park, Saxon Switzerland)

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  Ole Bull in Bergen , Norway

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  Henrik Ibsen , in front of the National Theater in Oslo

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  Lachmann grave , Hamburg-Ohlsdorf

literature

• Paul Elsner: Stephan Sinding. In: North and South. 121, 1907, pp. 58–67 with 1 illustration ( archive.org PDF; 29 MB).
• Maximilian rapeseed silver: Stephan Sinding. Marquardt & Co. Verlaganstalt, Berlin no year (around 1910/11).
• Georg Nordensvan : Sinding, 2. Stefan Abel S. In: Theodor Westrin, Ruben Gustafsson Berg, Eugen Fahlstedt (eds.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 25 : Sekt – Slöjskifling . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1917, Sp. 615–617 (Swedish, runeberg.org - In the family article ).
• CW Schnitler: Sinding, Stephan Abel . In: Christian Blangstrup (Ed.): Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon . 2nd Edition. tape 21 : Schinopsis spectrum . JH Schultz Forlag, Copenhagen 1926, p. 442-443 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
• Sinding, Stephan . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 31 : Siemering – Stephens . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1937, p. 85 .

Web links

Commons : Stephan Sinding  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Stephan Sinding In: Store norske leksikon. snl.no
• Stephan Sinding In: Norsk biografisk leksikon. nbl.snl.no
• Anette Sørensen: Stephan Sinding Kunstindeks Danmark