Wilhelm Hopfgarten
Wilhelm Hopfgarten (born April 7, 1789 in Berlin , † October 24, 1860 in Rome ) was a German bronze caster .
Life
After the early death of his father, a Seidenwirkers he was with his uncle, the Yellow caster brought home Linger. With him he received training in brass and chasing . At the same time he attended the drawing school for craftsmen at the Berlin Academy of the Arts as a student of Ferdinand Collmann . Around 1804 he traveled to Paris and then to Rome. In 1805 he and his colleague Benjamin Ludwig Jollage (1781–1837) founded a foundry and chasing workshop. From 1808 it was in Via due Macelli. Their scaled-down casts of ancient works were highly valued for their accuracy and quality as a souvenir of the Grand Tour . Sculptors working in Rome such as Bertel Thorvaldsen and Antonio Canova had their designs cast by them. His workshop also restored antique bronzes.
His older brother in Berlin Heinrich Hopfgarten was also a bronze caster. His son Emil Alexander Hopfgarten trained Wilhelm in his Roman workshop.
From 1819 he supported the establishment of the Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Rome , alongside Barthold Georg Niebuhr and Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen, as the third member of the newly founded presbytery. He is buried in the Protestant cemetery in Rome.
Works (selection)
- 1820 statue of Sir Thomas Maitland from Thorwaldsen, Corfu
- 1820 New casting of the bronze doors by Saint Paul Outside the Walls in Rome
- Work on the high altar of St. Peter's Basilica and the Church of Il Gesù
- 1823 Capitoline Amor ( Cupid ), casting, Luis island in the park of Charlottenburg Palace in Berlin
- 1825 centerpiece after statues by Thorvaldsen for Christian VIII. , Amalienborg Palace
- 1828 Copy of the praying boy des Boidas , since 1846 in Sanssouci , Potsdam
- 1832 Baptismal font in the Christ Church in Rome based on a design by Johann Michael Knapps
- 1835 Cast of the Miguel de Cervantes statue by Antonio Solá , Plaza de las Cortes, Madrid
- 1844–1848 bronze vessels based on ancient models for the Pompejanum in Aschaffenburg
literature
- Hopfgarten, Wilhelm . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 17 : Heubel – Hubard . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1924, p. 481 .
- Annette Brunner: Hopfgarten, Wilhelm. In: General Artist Lexicon . Volume 75: Hornung – Hunziker. De Gruyter, Berlin 2012, p. 451.
- Chiara Teolato: Hopfgarten and Jollage rediscovered: two Berlin Bronzists in Napoleonic and Restoration Rome. Edizioni del Borghetto, Rome [2016], ISBN 978-88-908176-4-9 ( digitized ).
Web links
- Wilhelm Hopfgarten in the Thorvaldsen Archive
- Table decoration
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelm Hopfgarten in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved January 2, 2018.
- ↑ Christian 8.'s Table Decoration , accessed January 2, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hopfgarten, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German bronze caster |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 7, 1789 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 24, 1860 |
| Place of death | Rome |