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Well Habicht (born July 7, 1884 in Oberstein an der Nahe; † December 2, 1966 in Darmstadt ) was a German sculptor and ceramist .

Life

Habicht lived in Darmstadt since childhood. After graduating from the Ludwig-Georgs-Gymnasium in Darmstadt in 1904, he studied architecture up to the preliminary diploma at the Technical University of Darmstadt . He then moved to Dresden, where he took his final exam in 1909. Habicht then attended the studio of the sculptor Georg Wrba as a private student and then studied sculpture for three semesters at the Art Academy in Dresden with Selmar Werner .

After returning from the First World War, Habicht moved into a studio on Mathildenhöhe in Darmstadt in 1919 and became a founding member of the Darmstadt Secession . In the same year Habicht married Irma, the daughter of the Darmstadt publisher and art collector Alexander Koch . 1919–1923 he took over the artistic direction of the Grand Ducal Ceramic Manufactory in Darmstadt.

In 1923 Habicht founded the Hessian Ceramic Manufactory in Großenlinden near Gießen. In 1925/26 he studied stone and metalworking techniques with Anton Hanak in Vienna. From 1927 he worked again as a freelance sculptor in Darmstadt.

In 1928 Habicht received the Georg Büchner Prize .

In the years 1928/1929 Habicht supplied models for the Feinsteingutfabrik Max Roesler AG (Darmstadt department). In 1930 he designed the Niebergall fountain in the Große Bachgasse in Darmstadt. This was built in honor of the dialect poet Ernst Elias Niebergall , the author of Datterich .

In 1944, Habicht's studio in Darmstadt was destroyed in an air raid. Then he moved to Bensheim an der Bergstrasse. In the 1950s, numerous nude, animal and fountain sculptures were created for the public space of the city of Darmstadt.

Well Habicht's grave is located in the old cemetery in Darmstadt (grave site: IV Wall 90).

literature

  • Rolf Peters: Max Roesler. Ceramic between Art Nouveau and Art Deco. (Exhibition catalog Museum Künstlerkolonie Darmstadt , March 20 to June 2, 1998.) Darmstadt 1998, ISBN 3-9804553-4-3 , p. 138 f.
  • Well Habicht (1884-1966). In: Darmstadt Graves of Honor. Biographies and Reviews . (= Darmstädter Schriften , 105.) Justus von Liebig Verlag, Darmstadt 2016, ISBN 978-3-87390-372-2 , pp. 78–80.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stadtlexikon Darmstadt. Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 978-3-8062-1930-2 , p. 340.
personal data
SURNAME Hawk, Well
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and ceramist
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberstein on the Nahe
DATE OF DEATH 2nd December 1966
Place of death Darmstadt