Wilhelm Haverkamp
Wilhelm Haverkamp (born March 4, 1864 in Senden , Westphalia ; † January 13, 1929 in Berlin-Friedenau ) was a German sculptor and medalist . He is considered a representative of historicism .
Life
Haverkamp grew up with his grandparents Ferlmann in Capelle from 1866 to 1877 and also attended elementary school there. He completed an apprenticeship as a stone and wood sculptor with the sculptors August Schmiemann (1877–81) and Heinrich Fleige (1881–83) in Münster and then studied from 1883 with the help of a scholarship for which he had submitted a group of Little Red Riding Hoods as a competition work of the Prussian Academy of Arts first with Albert Wolff , then from 1885 with Fritz Schaper . After completing his studies in 1887, he was a studio student with Schaper in 1888/89, visited Paris in 1889 and applied in the same year with the relief Walk to Hades for the Rome Prize of the Academy (Grand Academic State Prize), which he also received in 1890. He took part in the grant (his mentor was Robert Cauer ) at the Villa Strohl-Fern in Rome until 1892, where he created, among other things, in 1891 on behalf of Wilhelm Hüffer (1821–1895) the one in the entrance to his Roman palace, the Villa Huffero , set up group of boys on Corinthian capital . For his sponsor, the district court president Bernhard Lohaus (Münster), he created the "leap". The “Praying Mother” for Sant'Agostino in Rome was also created during his stay in Rome.
After his return from Rome in March 1892, he married Margarethe Ferlmann, the adopted daughter of his uncle who had emigrated to the USA, in Senden. After that Haverkamp lived again in Berlin. From October 1901 he taught at the educational establishment of the Royal Museum of Applied Arts ; In 1902 he was appointed as the successor to Ludwig Manzel and was appointed professor with the patent dated July 11, 1903. His most famous students include Heinrich Splieth , Gustav Wallat (1905-08), Renée Sintenis (1907-10) and Wilhelm Kruse (around 1910-14).
In 1899 Haverkamp was awarded the Ducal Anhalt House Order for Science and Art. In 1901 Haverkamp received the Small Gold Medal for Art at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition and the Red Eagle Order IV. Class at the inauguration of the "Great Elector" in Kiel, in 1909 the Gold Medal at the Great Munich Art Exhibition and in 1913 the Great Gold Medal again in Berlin . From 1913 he was a member of the Prussian State Art Commission. With the certificate of April 19, 1916, his appointment of January 14, 1916 as a full member of the Akademie der Künste was confirmed. Haverkamp retired in 1924.
Works (selection)
- 1889: Walk to Hades (relief “Hermes brings the souls of the deceased to Charon”, Berlin) - Haverkamp received the Grand State Prize for this
- 1891: Group of boys on a Corinthian capital (marble sculpture, marble, reception hall of Villa Huffero , Rome)
- 1893: “Corpus Christi”, Last Supper relief, Old Testament prophets and the four evangelists in the Luther Church , Apolda
- 1893: Two facade reliefs ("Luther before the Reichstag in Worms" and "Elector Joachim II of Brandenburg receives the First Supper") and two relief medallions ("Hus" and "Wyclif") made of terracotta at the Luther Church in Berlin-Friedenau ( Schöneberg)
- 1893/94: Evangelist figures and door relief under the pulpit of the Evangelical Ring Church in Wiesbaden (design by Haverkamp; execution by Hermann Hasenohr )
- 1896: Bismarck monument in Plauen (unveiled April 1, 1896)
- 1898: Craftsman with son (also called "father group"; marble sculpture of a seated craftsman with son), Berlin, Andreasstrasse - until 1960 with a different base part of a marble bench on Andreasplatz , together with the so-called "mother group" of Edmund Gomansky (the latter since 1960 in Volkspark Friedrichshain near the hospital )
- 1898: two angels as grave figures for the princely crypt of the Marienkirche in Dessau
- 1899: Kaiser Wilhelm Monument (statue of Wilhelm I and war memorial) in Coesfeld
- 1900: Moltke's statue in Plauen (unveiled on October 26, 1900)
- 1900: Schichau monument in Elbing , West Prussia (monument to the manufacturer Ferdinand Schichau , unveiled on November 18, 1900)
- around 1900: High altar for the Rosary Basilica in Berlin-Steglitz
- 1900/01: Participation in the facade decoration of the municipal museum Altona
- 1901: Decoration of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church , Berlin (figures of the apostles and reliefs)
- 1901: High altar, pulpit, baptismal font and evangelists in the Luther Church in Görlitz
- 1901: Last Supper relief (2.1 × 6 m) in the Luther Church in Solingen
- 1901: Monument to the Great Elector , Minden (unveiled June 18, 1901); Second casting on behalf of Kaiser Wilhelm II for Kiel (unveiled in the presence of the Kaiser on June 20, 1901)
- 1902: Pulpit with the representation of Christ (preaching to the woman at the Jacob's fountain) and the inscription “Whom there is thirsty come”, Evangelical main church in Rheydt
- 1902: Group "Barmherziger Samariter" in the hospital in Berlin-Schlachttensee
- 1903: Marble bath of Frederick the Great , Küstrin Castle ; Second production for the emperor's study, Neues Palais , Potsdam
- 1903/04: Krupp monument on behalf of the Imperial Yacht Club (KYC), whose protector was Wilhelm II; Kiellinie, Kiel . Unveiling on June 22, 1904. Inscription Alfred Krupp
- 1904: Two facade figures ("Religion" and "Administration") for the Charlottenburg Town Hall
- 1904: fox hunt (bronze statue, from 1907 part of an ensemble surrounding the Hubertusbrunnen - designed by Cuno von Uechtritz-Steinkirch - on the Großer Stern in the Tiergarten , the other three sculptures were by Karl Begas , Max Baumbach and Fritz Schaper ; moved to Fasanerieallee in 1938 )
- 1905: Kaiser Wilhelm Monument (statue of Wilhelm I) in Elbing (unveiled on July 23, 1905 in the presence of Empress Auguste Viktoria )
- 1906: Wrestling group (bronze sculpture in Volkspark Rehberge , African meadow, cast by Akt.-Ges. Vorm. H. Gladenbeck & Sohn ). Online photos here
- 1907: High altar for St. Otger, Stadtlohn
- 1907: War memorial in front of the district court in Lüdinghausen. Unveiling on July 21, 1907. Dismantled in 1943 and melted down in Lünen in 1945.
- 1907: Bronze statue of William II of Orange on the pleasure garden terrace of the Berlin Palace (inaugurated by Kaiser Wilhelm II on May 19, 1907 together with 4 statues of other Orange by Adolf Brütt , Walter Schott , Martin Wolff and Heinrich Baucke )
- around 1909: Crucifixion group, St. Sebastian Cemetery, Berlin-Reinickendorf
- 1909: Bronze relief for the Ernst grave, cemetery of the St. Matthias Congregation , Berlin
- 1909: War memorial in Senden / Westf. (Archangel Michael made of bronze)
- 1911: Plaque for the World Exhibition in Turin with a chest relief of Wilhelm II.
- 1913: High altar "Family von Nazareth" made of Baumberger sandstone in the Martinistift in Nottuln-Appelhülsen. Torn down in 1925, heads today in the sandstone museum in Havixbeck.
- 1914: Two facade reliefs made of molded brick on the Church of St. Marien in Berlin-Friedenau
- 1914: Large neo-Gothic portal (with seven figures and the relief “Maria Krönung”) and two adoration altars for the St. Laurentius Church in Warendorf
- 1916: Entombment of Christ for the St-Antonius-Kirche, Münster
- 1919: Pietá in St. Laurentius, Senden / Westf. (Part of the warrior memorial altar)
- 1921: Gravestone for his wife who died in 1918 in the St. Laurentius cemetery in Senden / Westfalia. (where Wilhelm Haverkamp was buried on January 19, 1929)
- 1922: War memorial altar in the Lambertikirche , Münster
- 1922: War memorial “St. Michael ”in the cemetery in Münster-Albachten made of Bavarian shell limestone. Location until 1975 on the church square next to the parish church
- 1922: Virgin Mary statue in St. Elisabeth (Berlin-Schöneberg)
- 1924: nine figures of saints for St. Ann's Home in Techny, Illinois
- large equestrian statue of Kaiser Wilhelm I (probably as part of a competition for Berlin; draft only)
- 1928: larger than life “Herz Jesu” figure made of wood in St. Marien in Berlin-Friedenau. (It was the artist's parish church and he felt very attached to her)
literature
- Dr. Johannes Tschiedel on Wilhelm Haverkamp, Westermannsmonthshefte, 67th year, volume 133, 1st part, November 1922, pp. 231–243
- Professor Wilhelm Haverkamp. The memory of the Berlin sculptor . Westfälische Nachrichten, Münster March 17, 1950.
- Rüdiger Bausch: Wilhelm Haverkamp - curriculum vitae and artistic work . In: Kreisheimatverein Coesfeld (Hrsg.): Geschichtsblätter des Kreis Coesfeld , 32nd year 2007
- Rüdiger Bausch: Wilhelm Haverkamp - curriculum vitae and his artistic work. Editor and editor Rüdiger Bausch, Senden 2013.
Individual evidence
- ^ Prof. Wilhelm Haverkamp. Artist. German Society for Medal Art, accessed on November 17, 2015 .
- ↑ The art. Monthly books for free and applied arts . Volume 5, 1902, p. 139 ( GBS-US )
- ↑ See Princely Crypt 1899 in Dessau.
- ↑ Plauen and the surrounding area between 1890 and 1899 ( Memento from September 3, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ protected monument "craftsman with son"
- ^ Plauen and the surrounding area between 1900 and 1909 ( Memento from November 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b Christa Mühleisen: Monuments and sights in Elbing
- ↑ The monuments around the Berlin Palace. (PDF; 9.2 MB) Gesellschaft Berliner Schloss e. V., accessed on November 3, 2014 .
Web links
- Rüdiger Bausch: biography and work overview Haverkamps (Heimatverein Senden)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Haverkamp, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 4, 1864 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Send , Westphalia |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 13, 1929 |
| Place of death | Berlin-Friedenau |