Wilhelm Everding

Johann Christian Wilhelm Everding (born July 18, 1863 in Bremen ; † December 20, 1928 there ) was a German sculptor .

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Jakobusbrunnen Bremen

Life

Wilhelm Everding was born as the son of the plasterer and sculptor Heinrich (Johann Heinrich Wilhelm) Everding, his brother was the sculptor Friedrich Everding . First he received his training from his father and the Bremen painter Wilhelm Steinhäuser . In the period from 1883 to 1888 he studied at the Dresden Art Academy and was a student of Robert Henze and Johannes Schilling . During this time he worked on the facade decoration of the new academy building and on orders from his professor Schilling. After graduating with the Academy's Medal of Honor, he worked for the sculptor Robert Dorer in Baden near Zurich from 1888 to 1892 . In 1892 he moved to Bremen and worked as a freelancer, and from 1894 worked as a teacher at the technical center in Bremen . Everding lived in Bremen at Gertrudenstrasse 34. The studio in which he worked with his brother Friedrich Everding was in house number 33 E-

Works (selection)

• 1888: Relief Loki and Sigune , Bremen.
• 1890: Christmas angel , Bremen.
• 1890: Draft and model of the Baumgartner monument in Bremen.
• 1893: Façade figures at Hamburg City Hall
• 1894: Statues of Mayors Meyer and von Büren at the courthouse in Bremen .
• 1894: Bust of Alexander von Humboldt for the Museum of Ethnology in Bremen.
• 1895: Portrait medallion by Arthur Breusing in the entrance to the Bremen University of Applied Sciences, cast by Wilhelm Kallmeyer.
• 1895: Relief medallions of Dr. Hurray and A. Grauls, grave monuments in the Bremen cemetery.
• 1906: New fountain figure for the St. Jakobi fountain in Bremen, destroyed in 1945.

literature

• The new courthouse in Bremen. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung . Vol. 30, No. 28 (April 4, 1896), pp. 173–175 (first part), No. 30 (April 11, 1896), pp. 185–189 (second part) ( PDF of the annual volume ).
• Gustav Pauli : Everding, Wilhelm . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 11 : Erman-Fiorenzo . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1915, p. 106 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Dankmar Trier: Everding, Wilhelm (Johann Christian Wilhelm) . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 35, Saur, Munich a. a. 2002, ISBN 3-598-22775-2 , p. 404.

Web links

• Address book Bremen 1904, letter E pp. 43-44
• Façade figures at Hamburg City Hall