Theodor Heinrich Bäumer

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Marble group Venus, Cupid threatens to trim the wings from 1886 on the Bürgerwiese in Dresden

Heinrich Bäumer (born February 25, 1836 in Warendorf , † April 26, 1898 in Dresden ; full name Theodor Heinrich Bäumer ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Heinrich Bäumer was born in Warendorf in Westphalia as the son of a master carpenter. He was initially trained as a modeller by his father. He studied from 1856 to 1862 at the Dresden Art Academy , where he became a student of Wilhelm Schwenck . From 1866 to 1868 Bäumer went on a study trip to Italy . From 1869 he worked as a freelancer in Dresden with his own studio. In Dresden, Bäumer became a member of the Masonic lodge To the three swords and Astraea to the green diamond . He created a larger than life bust of King Albert of Saxony , which earned him the appointment of royal Saxon professor. Bäumer died in Dresden in 1898 and was buried in the Johannisfriedhof .

Works (selection)

  • life-size figure of Solomon for the mausoleum of the Prince Consort Albert in Frogmore (Windsor)
  • Design by Zeus and Prometheus for the Semperoper in Dresden (1876)
  • Figures at the Dresden Regional Court and the Dresden District Court
  • Statues of the Evangelists for the Johanneskirche in Dresden
  • Marble group Venus, Cupid threatens to clip his wings on the Bürgerwiese in Dresden (1886)
  • Fountain figure of Zittavia in Zittau

literature

Web links

Commons : Theodor Heinrich Bäumer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erich Haenel : Bäumer, Heinrich . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 2 : Antonio da Monza-Bassan . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1908, p. 350 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  2. ↑ Archive of the Dresden University of Fine Arts
  3. ↑ ADB, Volume 46, p. 256 f. (see literature).
personal data
SURNAME Bäumer, Theodor Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bäumer, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH Warendorf
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1898
Place of death Dresden