Waldemar Fenn

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Marble portrait of Maximilian I (around 1910)

Waldemar Fenn (born October 7, 1877 in Frankfurt am Main ; † May 22, 1955 in Maó on Menorca ) was a German sculptor .

life and work

Waldemar Fenn's parents were the music professor Horaz Alexander Friedrich Fenn (born July 4, 1838 in Amorbach ) and his wife Friederike Louise Bertha, b. Scheele (born August 31, 1851), who came from Deutz am Rhein . The couple married on March 31, 1877 and lived on the third floor of Steinweg 5 when their son Waldemar was born in October 1877.

Fenn lived around 1901 in Strasbourg, which was then part of the German Empire ( Reichsland Elsaß-Lothringen ) and in the same year published two articles in the magazine Das Kunstgewerbe in Elsaß-Lothringen . Fenn and his widowed mother had lived at Schlossbergstrasse 6a in Freiburg since at least November 1907. On March 10, 1908, he married Sofie Anny Maria Schäfer (born January 7, 1881 in Hanover) and on March 15, his mother moved to Runzstrasse 60. His studio in Freiburg was at Fabrikstrasse 3.

On March 14, 1911, the Fenn couple moved from Freiburg to Frankfurt, where they first lived at 9 Vilbeler Strasse and moved to 37 Arndtstrasse on August 27.

On November 28, 1916, the couple moved to Wiesbaden. In the address books of 1917 and 1918 the sculptor is also recorded there, as is his mother in 1918. On August 15, 1920 the art dealership (Galerie Dürer) was taken over by Alfred Becher.

On April 1, 1916, Anny Fenn opened a shop selling handicrafts at Wilhelmstrasse 46 in Wiesbaden. In the same year Waldemar Fenn took part in the October-November exhibition of the Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden and offered his works Amazone and Dancer for sale.

Fenn spent his twilight years on the Balearic island of Menorca, where he also worked as the German honorary consul. There he created a reclining Christ for the Església de Santa Maria and, after the Spanish Civil War, a Maria for the pilgrimage church of Nuestra Señora de Gracia . In addition, he dealt with the prehistory of the island and treated, among other things, the archaeological excavation site Trepucó .

Works

For 1909 for the Sparkasse in to 1911 Freiburg remodeled house for whale created Fenn a relief from Carrara marble by Emperor Maximilian I as a model for the portrait, which the ruler in three-quarter profile with ermine cloak and pomegranate shows served a woodcut Albrecht Dürer's .

In 1915 the sculptor in Frankfurt executed a St. Michael as an iron nail picture , which was drawn by Hermann Knackfuß based on a design by Kaiser Wilhelm II . It was unveiled on August 1, 1915 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe and was quickly provided with around three thousand nails that could be purchased for one gold mark to support a "Homburg sanatorium for officers and men of the German army and navy". The nailed figure was kept in the city's municipal museum until 1965, when it was demolished when the latter moved.

Publications

  • Roman arts and crafts in Alsace . In: Das Kunstgewerbe in Elsaß-Lothringen 2, 1901/02, pp. 1–8 ( digitized version ).
  • To the aesthetic crisis . In: Das Kunstgewerbe in Elsaß-Lothringen 2, 1901/02, pp. 142–154 ( digitized version ).
  • Las Taulas de la isla de Menorca . In: Revista de Menorca 38, 1943, pp. 99-105; 41, 1945, pp. 257-269.
  • Grafica prehistórica de España y el orígen de la cultura europea. Astronomía, cosmología, simbolismo religioso, la escritura ibérica y los alfabetos europeos . Mahón 1950.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Older registration card from Horaz Alexander Fenn, in the Institute for City History Frankfurt am Main
  2. ↑ adressbuecher.genealogy.net: Historic address books: Horaz Alex. Friedr. Fenn Frankfurt , address book of Frankfurt a. M. 1877, p. 103, digitized version accessed on May 26, 2012
  3. ↑ a b c Address book of the capital Freiburg im Breisgau: year 1908, p. 328, digitized version , accessed on June 30, 2012
  4. ^ Address book of the capital Freiburg im Breisgau : year 1909, p. 370, digitized ; Address book of the capital Freiburg im Breisgau : year 1910, p. 395, digitized , accessed on June 30, 2012; Address book of the capital Freiburg im Breisgau : Year 1911, p. 413, digitized , accessed on June 30, 2012.
  5. ↑ StadtA Wi Best. WI / 2 No. 169.
  6. ↑ StadtA Wi Best. WI / 2 No. 167.
  7. ^ In the address book from 1916 the entry A. Fenn, Kunstgewerbehaus Wiesbaden, Gartenfeldstrasse 25, Inh. Gg. Break .
  8. ↑ Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden: October-November exhibition  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.kunstverein-wiesbaden.de   , Accessed on April 22, 2012 and information by email from the Kunstverein in November 2011
  9. ↑ Yearbook for Foreign Policy 1943, p. 356.
  10. ↑ Menorca-News.de: Fiestas on Menorca - Festes de Sant Joan 2003 ( Memento of the original of February 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.menorca-news.de archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , June 2003, accessed April 22, 2012; Kristiane Albert: Menorca . DuMont Reiseverlag, 2002, ISBN 978-3-7701-5969-7 , p. 78 ( excerpt from Google book search).
  11. ^ Hugo Obermaier Society for Research into the Ice Age and Prehistoric Cultures (ed.): Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft , Regensburg 1956, p. 246, digitized ; GA Martin Mueller: Trip to the megalithic buildings in Menorca. In: Journal of Ethnology , Volume 81, 1956, p. 296.
  12. ↑ Anja von Wiarda: Max Meckel / Ludwig Kubanek. In: Michael Klant (Ed.): Sculpture in Freiburg. Modo, Freiburg i. Br. 1998, ISBN 3-922675-76-X .
  13. ^ The administration building of the Sparkasse. In: Freiburg newspaper . October 9, 1911, No. 277, volume 128, 1st evening edition, ( digitized version )
  14. ^ Heinz Grosche: History of the city of Bad Homburg before the height: III. The imperial era. Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 3-7829-0334-X , p. 597 f.
personal data
SURNAME Fenn, Waldemar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor, consul and prehistorian
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH May 22, 1955
Place of death Maó , Menorca