Wilhelm Engelhard (artist)

Wilhelm Engelhard , also Friedrich Wilhelm Engelhard or Engelhardt , (born September 9, 1813 in Grünhagen , today in Bienenbüttel ; † June 23, 1902 in Hanover ) was a German portrait painter and sculptor . He was married to Marie Pauline Roesing (born December 14 , 1902 ) 1828 in Hamburg ).

Life

Engelhard initially trained as an ivory carver in London and Paris , before he began studying sculpture at the Higher Trade School in Hanover in 1837 , with the support of the Hanover royal family . He became a pupil of Bertel Thorvaldsen in Copenhagen in 1839 and of Ludwig Schwanthaler in Munich in 1841 . In 1848 he was a portrait painter in Hamburg and a member of the Hamburg Artists' Association from 1832 . 1855–58 he lived in Rome and from 1859 - called by King George V - back in Hanover to help design the Marienburg (near Nordstemmen), where he designed the Edda frieze . Engelhard had been a member of the Hanover Art Association since 1859 and became a professor at the Polytechnic School in 1869. Although he is still represented in Hanover today with a large number of sculptures, monuments and works of art, one could call him the 'great stranger' of the Hanoverian sculptors.

Engelhardt was the father and initial trainer of the sculptor Roland Engelhard .

Honor grave

The grave of honor for Wilhelm Engelhardt can be found in the Engesohde city cemetery in Hanover, Department 9B , burial place number 166-169 .

Selection of works

Heinrich the Lion , sculpture above the main entrance to the Welfenschloss , around 1862

• Berlin- Groß Lichterfelde
  • Colossal statue of the Archangel Michael , on the top of the dome of the main cadet institute (1876)
• Hanover
  • Reliefs on the "Provinzialständehaus", Schiffgraben (today's Lower Saxony Ministry of Finance ) (around 1880)
  • Reliefs and figures on the Künstlerhaus , Sophienstrasse (around 1855)
  • Wotan Monument, Planckstrasse (back of the Lower Saxony State Museum ) (1888)
  • Schiller Monument, Georgstrasse (1863)
  • Figures of the market fountain, Am Markt (next to the old town hall ) (1881) based
    on designs by Hermann Schaper
• Hanover-Herrenhausen
  • Seated statue of Electress Sophie , in the Great Garden of Herrenhausen (1876–78)
• Bad Harzburg
  • Bismarck relief on the Canossa column on the Burgberg (1877), in collaboration with the architect Hermann Strümpelt

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  Colossal statue of the Archangel Michael in Berlin

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  Schiller monument in Hanover on Georgstrasse

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  Market fountain Hanover

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  Wotan monument

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  Seated statue of the Electress Sophie

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  Bismarck relief on the Canossa column in Bad Harzburg

See also

• List of members of the Hannoversche Künstlerverein
• List of monuments in Hanover
• List of architectural monuments in Hanover

literature

• Engelhard, Wilhelm (Friedr. Wilh.) . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 10 : Dubolon – Erlwein . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1914, p. 541-542 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
• Wilhelm Engelhard . In: Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE) . 2., revised. and extended edition. tape 3 : Einstein – Görner . De Gruyter / KG Saur, Berlin / Boston / Munich 2006, ISBN 3-11-094655-6 , p. 118 .
• Technical University of Hanover: Catalogus professorum 1831–1981. Festschrift for the 150th anniversary of the University of Hanover. Volume 2. Hannover 1956, p. 57.
• R. Hartmann : History of the residential city of Hanover from the oldest times to the present. With plans and illustrations. Kniep, Hannover 1880, p. 999.
• Helmut Zimmermann : Hanover in your pocket. 2nd expanded edition. Hanover 1988, p. 117.
• Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Engelhard (t), Wilhelm. In: Hanover Art and Culture Lexicon . passim .
• Roland Engelhard : Biography of W. Engelhard, in: Lower Saxony (magazine) . Volume 19, No. 17, 1914.
• Hugo Thielen: Engelhard (1), Friedrich Wilhelm. 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. 109 and others. ( books.google.de ).
• Images from three centuries in Hanover. Art Association, Hanover 1957.
• Hugo Thielen: Engelhard (t), (1), Friedrich Wilhelm. 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. 160.

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Wilhelm Engelhard  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Karin van Schwartzenberg (responsible): Graves of honor and graves of important personalities at the Engesohde town cemetery , A3 leaflet with overview sketch, ed. from the City of Hanover, The Lord Mayor, Department of Environment and Urban Greenery, Department of Urban Cemeteries, Department of Administration and Customer Service, Hanover, 2012