August Waterbeck
August Waterbeck (born September 1, 1875 in Amelsbüren , † February 21, 1947 in Hanover ) was a German sculptor .
Life
Waterbeck trained as a wood carver from 1893 to 1896 in a workshop for church art in Wiedenbrück . From 1897 to 1902 he studied with Edmund von Hellmer in Vienna .
Waterbeck worked as a freelance sculptor in Hanover from 1903. There he was also a member of the Hanoverian Artists' Association from 1920 and of the Old Hanoverian Table Society , which has dealt with the city history of Hanover since 1882 and still exists today.
His grave is in the Engesohde city cemetery .
Works
- Entry of King Ernst August, 1837 ; (1913, New Town Hall )
- Reinholddenkmal , erected in 1928 in the garden of the Nordstadt Hospital in Hanover (for the long-time director of the house, Heinrich Reinhold)
- Ziegler Monument (1934, in the garden of the Heidehaus hospital near Hanover for head physician Otto Ziegler, 1879–1931)
- Wisent, 1935, animal sculpture in the Eilenriede in Hanover on the Bernadotteallee - listed
- Hirsch, 1936, animal sculpture in the Eilenriede in Hanover on Bernadotteallee - a listed building
- Commemorative plaque for fallen students and teachers in the First World War 1922 - burned clay plates, two mourning female figures as the upper end - in Hanover, Luther school
There are also free sculptures by August Waterbeck in Magdeburg , Stettin , Bad Pyrmont and Hildesheim .
literature
- Waterbeck, August . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 35 : Libra-Wilhelmson . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1942, p. 180 .
- Waterbeck, August . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 5 : V-Z. Supplements: A-G . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1961, p. 84 .
- Hugo Thielen : Waterbeck, August. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 377 and more often ( books.google.de ).
- Hugo Thielen: Waterbeck, August. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 657.
Web links
Commons : August Waterbeck - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dirk Böttcher in: Stadtlexikon Hannover, p. 19.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Waterbeck, August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 1, 1875 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Amelsbueren |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 21, 1947 |
| Place of death | Hanover |