Walter Flemming (artist)

Ernst Walter Flemming (born September 8, 1896 in Altenburg , † December 24, 1977 in Dresden ) was a German metal designer, goldsmith , sculptor and restorer .

Goldener Reiter , restored by W. Flemming in 1956

Metal relief schoolchildren at the Johann Amos Comenius School, Dresden

Live and act

Walter Flemming was born on September 8, 1896 in Altenburg as the son of the miller Adelbert Flemming. From 1903 to 1911 he attended the local elementary school and began an apprenticeship as a chaser and engraver in 1911 due to his talent for drawing (until 1915). He received an honorary scholarship from a sponsor and was then able to study at the Dresden Art Academy . Flemming was a master student at Karl major and graduated with the bronze and silver medal of honor of the Academy of Arts from.

From 1923 to 1924 he worked at the Schwäbisch Gmünd University of Design . He soon traveled to Dresden again and from 1925 to 1945 he was assistant and later head of the metal workshop at the Dresden School of Applied Arts. After the war he worked as a freelancer in Dresden. His main work was the restoration and re-installation of the Golden Rider in Dresden. He worked as a lecturer at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts . He donated the altar cross for the burial chapel at the Briesnitz church .

Flemming died in Dresden in 1977 and was buried in the church cemetery in Dresden- Briesnitz . His son-in-law Wilhelm Landgraf took over his studio .

Honors

1923: Bronze and Silver Medal of Honor from the Dresden Art Academy.

Works

Gneisenau monument in Schildau

1937: Goethe figure for the courtyard of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan
1938: Bronze bust of Vincenzo Erranto for the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan
1948–53: Collaboration in the Zwingerbauhütte on all copper work during the restoration of the Zwinger in Dresden, Kronentor
1950: Production of a new baptismal font for the church in Klitten
1952–53: Wall relief at the Leipzig University of Applied Sciences for Telecommunications
1953: Sandstone figure of Jasan , attic figure in the gable of the central building of the Humboldt University in Berlin , together with the sculptor Wilhelm Landgraf
1953–56: Restoration of the equestrian statue of August the Strong in Dresden
1954–55: Carl-Maria-von-Weber- Fries in the bay window of the Güntzstraße student residence in Dresden
1955: Figure group victims of fascism together with Arnd Wittig based on a design by Eugen Hoffmann in Dresden
1955: artistic design of the Prague café on the Altmarkt in Dresden
1959: Gable design for schoolchildren , the 6th Dresden Middle School "Johann Amos Comenius ", Fetscherstraße 2, executed by K. Bergmann, Dresden in Dresden
1960: Bronze bust by August Neidhardt von Gneisenau with four relief medallions on the base in Schildau ( Torgau district )
1961: Renovation and re-installation of the goose thief fountain in Dresden with Bergmann
1962: Manufacture of new chalices for the church in Thekla , Leipzig
1962: Sandstone figure Mars in the attic in the gable of the central building of the Berlin Humboldt University together with the sculptor Wilhelm Landgraf
1966: Renovation and reorganization of the Dinglinger Fountain in Dresden with the sculptor Werner Hempel
1966: New manufacture of the golden tongue and the crowning ball for the Dinglinger fountain
1968: New baptismal vessels for the church in Oberwiesenthal
1973: Restoration of the Hanfried monument in Jena, created in 1858 by Johann Friedrich Drake

literature

Walter Flemming. In: Simone Simpson: Between cultural mandate and artistic autonomy: Dresden sculptures from the 1950s and 1960s. Böhlau 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-20101-2 , pp. 92, 176ff, 192, 197.

Web links

Commons : Walter Flemming - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Entry in the Saxon biography
↑ ^a ^b Personal conversations with the daughter Barbara Landgraf.
^ Church book of the Briesnitz Church in Dresden.
^ ^A ^b Simone Simpson: Between cultural mandate and artistic autonomy: Dresden sculptures from the 1950s and 1960s. Böhlau 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-20101-2 .
↑ Cenotaphs and memorials in and around Jena

personal data
SURNAME	Flemming, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Flemming, Ernst Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German metal designer, goldsmith, sculptor and restorer
DATE OF BIRTH	September 8, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH	Altenburg
DATE OF DEATH	December 24, 1977
Place of death	Dresden

[1] Entry in the Saxon biography

[BL-2] Personal conversations with the daughter Barbara Landgraf.

[3] Church book of the Briesnitz Church in Dresden.

[simpson-4] A ^b Simone Simpson: Between cultural mandate and artistic autonomy: Dresden sculptures from the 1950s and 1960s. Böhlau 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-20101-2 .

[5] Cenotaphs and memorials in and around Jena