Theodor Maßler

Theodor Maßler (also: Theodor Massler ; * July 1, 1844 in Wangen im Allgäu ; † April 13, 1910 in Hanover ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Evangelist sculptures on the pulpit designed by Eberhard Hillebrand in the garden church of St. Marien , made around 1890 by the Maßler & Haller company

Massler's ornamentation at the Hase fountain on the historic market square in Hanover

Theodor Maßler settled in the royal seat of the Kingdom of Hanover around 1865 and temporarily ran his own studio in Hanover . in the - at that time - Friesenstrasse 6 in Hanover, a studio in the Hagenstrasse 67 was also known.

In the proclamation of the German Empire Theodor Massler was a member of the number on Nov. 2, 1871 957 in the Johannis - Masonic Lodge Zum Schwarzen Baer added.

An advertisement by Maßler in 1882 in the magazine Hannoversches Wochen-Blatt for trade and commerce illustrates the further development of handicraft sculpture from traditional materials that took place in the 19th century:

"Stucco. Newest material for interior decoration. Advantages over gypsum stucco are: more significant hardness; very low weight and therefore more permanent attachment; immediate drying for painting; Easier to ship and cheaper [...] The stucco in Hanover is processed by me alone and I ask the honored architects, master masons and builders to convince themselves of this latest material in my studio. "

In 1895 Maßler became a member of the Hanoverian artists' association Bauhütte zum white sheet . In order to express his solidarity with the architect Conrad Wilhelm Hase and his conception of art, Maßler took part with his own works in the exhibition with drawings and exhibits held for Hase's 80th birthday in the Künstlerhaus Hannover .

Works

Plastic work

In addition to altars, altar utensils, pulpits, chandeliers, baptismal fonts and architectural sculptures, Theodor Maßler also created wood, stone, metal and plaster works for churches by Conrad Wilhelm Hase and his students, including

• six sculptures on the pulpit of the St. Jacobi Church in Göttingen

amongst other things

• 1865–1866 in Bücken , in the collegiate church St. Materniani et St. Nicolai during the restoration under the architect Adelbert Hotzen and the site manager Werner Schuch ornamental plaster floor in the choir, based on a design by Werner Schuch
• 1866–1869 in Bassum during the restoration of the collegiate church under the architect Conrad Wilhelm Hase based on a design by the church painter Heinrich Ludger Schröer inlaid floor made of high-fire plaster
• 1872 in Hanover for the city cemetery Engesohde : Tomb of the actor Karl August Devrient (1797-1872), while the portrait relief in marble by Heinrich Friedrich Brehmer comes
• 1875–1876 in Wietzendorf , for the new St. Jacobi church designed by Conrad Wilhelm Hase : altar and pulpit
• 1876–1879 in Gelnhausen , during the restoration of the Marienkirche according to the design by Carl Schäfer and the execution by Heinrich von Schmidt : completion of chipped parts on the main portal by tailors and the production of plaster casts
• 1878 in Hanover for the arts and crafts exhibition there : Execution of the stucco work for the model kitchen designed by Christoph Hehl
• 1878–1880 in Tostedt : Altar by Maßler for the new St. Johannis Baptist church designed by Conrad Wilhelm Hase
• 1881 for Hanover, Marktplatz: Maßler created the models of ornamentation for the market fountain designed by Conrad Wilhelm Hase , the figures of which were designed by Hermann Schaper , executed by Wilhelm Engelhard and cast in bronze by the company H. Gladenbeck & Sohn
• 1885 Execution of a book cover designed by the artist Max Kolde with floral decorations in wood
• 1889–1890 in Delitzsch , neo-Gothic redesign of the city church of St. Peter and Paul under Conrad Wilhelm Hase, during the restoration of the main altar retable: ornamental carvings
• to 1889: large wood carvings for Villa Lehmann who for the Captain Ernst Lehmann at Friedländer Weg 30 in Göttingen was built
• Around 1890 in Hanover, St. Marien garden church , manufacture of the pulpit designed by Eberhard Hillebrand by the Maßler & Haller company
• 1897 or earlier, Theodor Maßler together with the Hamburg architect Martin Haller : Model for the Provincial Museum in Hanover
• 1897 or earlier, by “Th. Maßler u. Haller ”: All items of the interior furnishings of the garrison church in Torn , in which the Sievers brothers from Hanover carried out the decorative wall painting
• 1899–1901 in Uelzen for the restoration of the city ​​church of St. Mary, carried out under the architect Conrad Wilhelm Hase : pillar capitals and altar figures by Theodor Maßler
• 1902 in Schwarmstedt : equipment during the restoration of the church of St. Laurentius led by the architect Eduard Wendebourg
• 1906 for Nettetal and the local chapel of Krickenbeck Castle : Massler's altar figures of St. Nicholas and St. Hubertus , which the von Schaeßberg family rescued to their Tannheim Castle during the Second World War in 1943 , could after an agreement with WestLB in 2005 return to the Nettetal Chapel

Publications

• Stone carvings. Marienkirche zu Gelnhausen , three sheets, catalog of plaster casts by Theodor Massler, Hanover: Massler, 1878.
• Plaster casts of the stonemason work from the Marienkirche in Gelnhausen , folder with three loose sheets with illustrations, Hanover: Theodor Massler, 1900.
• Naturalistic Gothic sculptural work using native plants. Model collection of executed sculptural work for architects, sculptors, painters, as well as for the entire arts and crafts , six sheets, Hanover: Th. Massler, 1900.

literature

• HS: The celebration of CW Hase's 80th birthday . In: Deutsche Bauzeitung 32nd year. 1898, No. 105, pp. 672-677, here p. 674 (incidental mention; digitized version ).

Archival material

Archives by and about Theodor Maßler can be found, for example

• in the archive of the Bauhütte Hanover and as such partly in the city ​​archive of Hanover , partly in the club house at Braunstraße 28 in Hanover

Web links

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

• Reinhard Glaß: Maßler, Theodor in the database architects and artists with direct reference to Conrad Wilhelm Hase (1818–1902) on the page glass-portal.privat.t-online.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n} Reinhard Glaß: Maßler, Theodor in the database architects and artists with direct reference to Conrad Wilhelm Hase (1818–1902) on the page glass-portal.privat.t- online.de , last accessed on March 28, 2017.
2. ↑ Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library .
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Christian Scholl , Harald Storz : Visibly evangelical. The stained glass windows of the Jakobikirche in Göttingen from 1900/1901 and the Hanoverian glass painting workshops Henning & Andres and Lauterbach & Schröder , catalog for the exhibition "Visibly evangelical" in the Göttingen Jacobikirche from March 27 to June 23, 2017, Göttingen: Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 2017, ISBN 978-3-86395-302-7 , p. 104; as a PDF document also at Wikimedia Commons
4. ^ ^{A b} Ludwig Hoerner : Sculptor, handicrafts , in this: agents, bathers and copists. Hannoversches Gewerbe-ABC 1800–1900 . Ed .: Hannoversche Volksbank , Reichold, Hannover 1995, ISBN 3-930459-09-4 , p. 53ff .; here: p. 55 ( preview via Google books )
5. ↑ top v . : The Johannis Masonic Lodge to the Black Bear in the Orient from Hanover 1774 to 1874 . Hofbuchdruckerei der Gebrüder Jänecke, Hanover 1875, p. 19 ( preview via Google books).
6. ↑ Dr. Stefanie Lindemeier and her team are restoring the floor in the choir room of the Bassum collegiate church. Small hole swallows 80 liters of filling compound , Kreiszeitung.de, July 17, 2013.
7. ^ Ludwig Bickell : The architectural and art monuments in the administrative district of Cassel . Volume 1: Gelnhausen district . Marburg 1901, pp. 66-70 ( digitized version ); see stone carving. Marienkirche zu Gelnhausen , three sheets, catalog of plaster casts by Theodor Massler, Hanover: Massler, 1878 and plaster casts of the stonemasonry from the Marienkirche in Gelnhausen , portfolio with three loose sheets with illustrations, Hanover: Theodor Massler, 1900.
8. ↑ Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : On the market . In Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek (ed.): Hannover. Art and culture encyclopedia , new edition, 4th, updated and expanded edition, zu Klampen, Springe 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , pp. 83f.
9. ↑ Iris Ritschel: The main altarpiece of the town church St. Peter and Paul in Delitzsch . In: Andreas Dubslaff (Red.): Altar of the city church of St. Peter and Paul zu Delitzsch , Beucha 2010, pp. 58–96, here p. 59. 62 ( digitized version ).
10. ↑ Jan Volker Wilhelm: The construction business and the city. Urban planning, real estate transactions and construction activity in Göttingen (1861–1924) (= studies on the history of the city of Göttingen , vol. 24). Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 978-3-525-85425-9 and ISBN 3-525-85425-0 , p. 321 ( preview via Google books).
11. ^ Winfried Gründel: Hubert Stiers Provincial Museum (Lower Saxony State Museum) in Hanover. History of development - design - evaluation , dissertation University of Göttingen 1989, pp. 183, 258 ( preview over Google books); Heide Grape-Albers (eds.), Julian Nida-Rümelin , Ines Katenhusen , Sid Auffarth : The Lower Saxony State Museum Hanover, 2002. 150 years of the museum in Hanover, 100 years of the building at the Maschpark. Festschrift for the year of the double anniversary . Lower Saxony State Museum, Hanover 2002, ISBN 978-3-929444-29-2 and ISBN 3-929444-29-1 , pp. 101, 138 ( preview via Google books).
12. ^ V .: The new garrison church in Thorn , in: Thorner Presse , 15th year, no. 297 of December 21, 1897; as a searchable PDF document from the Kujawsko-Pomorska Digital Library
13. ↑ Heinz Koch: Nettetal / The facility from 1906 is preserved ... , Part II on the rp-online.de page from July 24, 2015, last accessed on March 28, 2017.