Wilhelm Christian Cuwie

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Wilhelm Christian Cuwie (born October 5, 1846 in Plön ; † January 4, 1931 in Lübeck ) was a German sculptor and politician.

Life

Official house of the Stecknitz drivers with the figures of Cuwie as the crowning of the portal

Cuwie was not only active in sculpting, but also sold stucco and prefabricated components in his shop on Mühlenstrasse . Accordingly, he was also open to the use of artificial stone . Of his works, two Stecknitz drivers (1905) made of cast concrete on the facade of the new office building of this Lübeck inland navigation guild , built in 1904 on the Hartengrube 25 property , which were recently completely renovated by the sculptor Sven Schöning with funds from the Possehl Foundation .

In 1889 Cuwie created the column and the water bowl of the Borwin fountain in Güstrow , while the statue of Borwin was made by the sculptor and teacher at the Hamburg general trade school Theodor Richard Thiele (* 1857).

In 1896 Cuwie and the master carpenter Hermann Stoll were responsible for redesigning the hall in the Padelügge manor house for the head of the Parcham Foundation .

Cuwie was a member of the Lübeck citizenship from 1893 to 1913, i.e. a member of a German state parliament, and temporarily a member of its citizens' committee. He was a member of the building deputation and was a member of the head of the St. Johannis Jungfrauenkloster . As a member of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities, he was responsible for the collection of paintings, copperplate engravings and plaster casts in the Museum am Dom .

His son Wilhelm Cuwie became a lawyer and notary in Lübeck and a partner in the office of the Lübeck mayor Emil Ferdinand Fehling .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Funding measure on the Possehl Foundation website
  2. ^ Meike Kruse: The Parcham'sche Foundation in Lübeck. Development and performance since 1844. (= publications on the history of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck , series B, volume 34.) Verlag Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2001, ISBN 3-7950-0472-1 , p. 91.
  3. ↑ See e.g. B. Lübeck State Handbook , Lübeck 1903
  4. ↑ GND = 126247064
personal data
SURNAME Cuwie, Wilhelm Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Plön
DATE OF DEATH January 4, 1931
Place of death Lübeck