Walter Hauschild

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Walter Hauschild (born January 19, 1876 in Leipzig , † June 27, 1969 in Leest ) was a German sculptor .

Life

King Albert Monument in Bautzen
Grave plaque at the family grave in Stahnsdorf

Hauschild studied at the Leipzig Art Academy and the Berlin Art Academy . From 1900 to 1903 he was a master student of Reinhold Begas in Berlin . From 1901 he exhibited at various German exhibitions, for example at the International Art Exhibition in Bremen in 1906. In particular, he was represented as an animal sculptor at the great Berlin art exhibitions between 1908 and 1919 . In 1942, his water bearer was filmed in close-up at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition, where the German art propagated by the National Socialists was presented, for the thirteen-minute propaganda documentary Summer Sunday in Berlin produced by the Deutsche Wochenschau . Animal sculptures by him can be found in the Berlin Zoological Garden (sea lion) and in the Dresden Albertinum ( hornbills, penguins, guinea fowl ), in the museums in Leipzig ( penguins ), in Rostock ( fighting vultures ) and in Bautzen ( sea ​​lions ).

He also made the "Klukenbrunnen" ( Gluckenbrunnen ) exhibited in 1908 , the equestrian monument to King Albert of Saxony at the Lauenturm in Bautzen (1913), the sculpture of a peacock exhibited in 1914 and the design for a Gerhard Rohlfs memorial in Vegesack . His figurative sculptures were also produced by the Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin .

Hauschild taught sculpture at the State Art School in Berlin-Schöneberg, where teachers were trained in art and handicrafts.

His grave is in the south-west cemetery Stahnsdorf .

literature

Web links

Commons : Walter Hauschild  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Berlin architecture world . 11th year 1908/1909, issue 3 (June 1908), p. 86 (illustration).
  2. Berlin architecture world. 17th year 1914/1915, issue 5 (August 1914), art print board between p. 214 and p. 215 (illustration).
  3. Willy Oskar Dreßler (ed.): Dressler's art manual. 10th edition, Volume 1, Halle (Saale) / Berlin 1934, p. 169.