Wilhelm Pelargus

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Keystone with a portrait of Wilhelm Pelargus at the entrance of his former house at Olgastraße 100-102

Wilhelm Pelargus (born September 23, 1820 in Stuttgart , † October 12, 1901 in Stuttgart) was the owner of an art mineral foundry in Stuttgart.

Former ore foundry Pelargus at Weißenburgstraße 35 in Stuttgart, behind the house at Olgastraße 100-102.
Grave at the Fangelsbachfriedhof in Stuttgart

Life

Pelargus did his apprenticeship as a pewter journeyman in the father's workshop of Wilhelm Ludwig Pelargus, who still ran a pewter foundry in the tradition of the Pelargus family of art foundries . He then completed his traveling years at pewter foundries in Frankfurt and Munich and with Jacob Daniel Burgschmiet in Nuremberg, where he learned the technique of ore casting. In 1845 he began his own work in the foundry built by his father Wilhelm Ludwig on Weißenburgstrasse in Stuttgart.

At first there was a lack of work for the workshop. The breakthrough came in 1850 when he received the order for four muses for the court theater in Stuttgart. King Wilhelm I (Württemberg) was very satisfied with Pelargus' work and numerous other commissioned works followed until his death in 1864. Wilhelm Pelargus had developed a very good reputation and received - after the death of his sponsor - many public commissions for monuments and figures, including a group of figures for the portal of Zurich's main train station (sculptor: Ernst Rau ).

Wilhelm Pelargus tried to expand the field of work in his foundry by founding the “Stuttgart soft cast factory of Gross and Pelargus” with Adolf Gross, a former apprentice, for the manufacture of technical castings in 1877. As early as 1878, however, he withdrew as a partner from the company that still exists today under the name “Gross + Froelich”. In 1885 his son Hugo Pelargus took over the workshop.

Work (selection)

Reconstructions

  • The two fountains on the Schloßplatz in Stuttgart were inaugurated in 1863 on the birthday of King Wilhelm I. Under the fountain bowls eight small river geniuses symbolize Württemberg rivers: Danube, Nagold, Tauber, Jagst, Neckar, Kocher, Fils and Enz. In the post-war chaos, all the figures of a fountain (Danube, Nagold, Tauber and Jagst) disappeared. 1986–1989, the four putti were reconstructed from old photos by the Stuttgart sculptor Doris Schmauder. The aluminum casting was carried out by the Strassacker art foundry in Süßen.
  • The bronze lions for Rosenstein Castle in Cannstatt have been lost since 1944. In 1960 two copies were made in sandstone by Hermann Brellochs.

gallery

  • Merkur (1862) by Ludwig Hofer

  • Karl Pfaff (1868) by Ernst Rau

  • Friedrich Schiller (1876) by Ernst Rau

  • Fountain figures (1863) by Karl Kopp

  • Fountain on the Schloßplatz in Stuttgart

  • "Fère Champenois" (1846) by Theodor Wagner

  • Löwentor at Rosensteinpark

  • Rosenstein Castle with candelabra (1853) by Albert Güldenstein

  • Detail of a candelabra

  • Group of figures on the portal of Zurich Central Station

  • Polyhymnia in the Stuttgart Lapidarium

  • Wilhelm Hauff (1882) by Wilhelm Rösch

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Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Pelargus  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Coordinates: Pelargus ore foundry .
personal data
SURNAME Pelargus, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ore caster
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 1901
Place of death Stuttgart