Wilhelm Giesecke

Wilhelm Giesecke (born April 2, 1854 in Altona ; died October 15, 1917 in Barmen ) was a German sculptor , medalist and painter .

Life

Giesecke completed a 7-year training as a sculptor, attended the School of Applied Arts in Nuremberg from 1875 to 1878 , and the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1882 to 1885 as a student of the sculptor Wilhelm Wiedemann and the painter Ludwig von Löfftz . In the meantime, he worked under the court sculptor Philipp Perron at the Herrenchiemsee and Linderhof palaces of the Bavarian King Ludwig II. In 1893 he became a teacher at the Hamburg School of Applied Arts , but in 1895 he went to the Barmer School of Applied Arts , where he taught until his death.

Works

In Hamburg or Altona:

Oceanid of the Behn Well

• Behn fountain ( bronze statue), Altona
• Memorial stone for the merchant Peter Theodor Zeise, Altona
• Statue of Ditmar Koels at the Kersten Miles Bridge , Hamburg
• Bronze statue of Henry III. at the Hamburg City Hall

In Barmen:

• Monument to Otto Schüller in the Barmer grounds
• Monument to Heinrich Eisenlohr on the Kaiser-Friedrich-Höhe , Unterbarmen
• Figure friezes at the Barmer Hall of Fame
• Grave monument for the Lord Mayor Friedrich Wilhelm Wegner

In Magdeburg:

• Relief depicting the goddess Athena as the protector of technology at the Magdeburg building trade school , not preserved

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wilhelm Giesecke. Artist. German Society for Medal Art, accessed on November 10, 2015 . 
2. ^ ^{A b} Giesecke, Wilhelm Christian Andreas . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape  14 : Giddens-Gress . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1921, p. 6 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).

Web links

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