Wilhelm Mues (sculptor)

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Elephant (Berlin Zoo Gate)
Luther monument at the Erfurt Luther School

Wilhelm Mues (born August 28, 1877 in Bremen , † September 14, 1946 in New York City , full name August Wilhelm Mues ) was a German sculptor and craftsman .

Life and works

Mues grew up in the early days of the German Empire . He attended the Berlin School of Applied Arts and was a student of Ludwig Manzel and, from 1895 to 1898, of Martin Wolff .

For a while, Mues ran a studio in Hanover . He worked for Gotthold Riegelmann (1864–1935) and H. Giesecke in Charlottenburg, among others.

  • His best-known works are the large reclining animal sculptures made of sandstone for the elephant gate from 1899 , which forms the main entrance to the Berlin Zoological Garden (destroyed in World War II, reconstructed in the 1980s).
  • In 1912 he also created the large bronze relief with a scene from the life of the reformer Martin Luther on the memorial in front of the Luther school in the Auenviertel of Erfurt's Andreasvorstadt .

Mues created

Mues was also active as a medalist. In 1906, for example, the Berlin art foundry Hermann Noack made a bronze plaque in memory of the physician and microbiologist Robert Koch based on a design by Mues . In the same year Noack cast a bronze relief based on a design by Mues for the prize of the specialist floristry journal “Die Bindekunst”, published and directed in Erfurt by Johannes Olbertz.

Around 1916 a bronze half-bust was created with the likeness of Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse .

literature

  • Friedrich Jansa: German visual artists in words and pictures. With a list of Richter's works at the time, Leipzig: Jansa, 1912, p. 414.
  • Mues, August Wilhelm . In: Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General Artist Lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists . Prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller . tape 6 : Second addendum with corrections . Literary Institute, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1922, p. 204 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Mues, Wilhelm . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931.
  2. ↑ Mues, Wilhelm . In: Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General Artist Lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists . Prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller . 5th unchanged edition. tape 5 : Vialle-Zyrlein. Supplements and corrections . Literary Institute, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1921, p. 217 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive - Supplements).
  3. ^ Wilhelm Mues bronze relief with a scene from the life of Martin Luther
  4. ↑ Koch, Robert in honor directory of Luisenstädtischer Education Association
  5. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: lot-tissimo.com )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.lot-tissimo.com
  6. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: lot-tissimo.com )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.lot-tissimo.com
personal data
SURNAME Mues, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mues, August Wilhelm; Mues, A. Wilhelm; Mues, AW; Muës, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 1946
Place of death New York City