Wilhelm Pelargus
Wilhelm Pelargus (born September 23, 1820 in Stuttgart , † October 12, 1901 in Stuttgart) was the owner of an art mineral foundry in Stuttgart.
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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)
- Bronze relief for the anniversary column on Schloßplatz in Stuttgart, 1846 ( Theodor Wagner )
- Muses for the old court theater building in Stuttgart, 1850–1851 ( Johann Wilhelm Braun )
- Animal sculptures for Wilhelma in Cannstatt, 1852–1853 ( Albert Güldenstein )
- Bronze lions and candelabras for Rosenstein Castle in Cannstatt, 1853 (Albert Güldenstein)
- Zinc lion on the lion gate, 1858 (Albert Güldenstein) (replaced in 1992 by a bronze copy by the Strassacker foundry)
- Figure of Mercury at the Old Chancellery in Stuttgart, 1862 ( Ludwig von Hofer )
- Stuttgardia Fountain in Stuttgart, 1863 ( Ernst Rau ) (factory destroyed in the war)
- Fountain figures for the Schloßplatzbrunnen in Stuttgart 1863 ( Karl Kopp )
- Bust of Ludwig Uhland in Stuttgart, 1865 (Ernst Rau)
- Bust of Karl Pfaff in Esslingen, 1868 (Ernst Rau)
- Figure group on the main train station in Zurich (Ernst Rau)
- Schiller monument in Marbach, 1876 (Ernst Rau) (1898 copy for St. Louis by Hugo Pelargus)
- Uhland monument in Tübingen, 1873 ( Gustav Adolph Kietz )
- Hölderlin memorial plaque on the house where the poet was born in Lauffen am Neckar, 1873 (Ernst Rau)
- Germania on the war memorial for the Fangelsbach cemetery in Stuttgart, 1874 ( Adolf Gnauth ) (work lost)
- Three works by Albert Güldenstein that were destroyed in the war or lost : Aries bowl , two sitting dogs and donor of gifts
- Busts of Duke Wilhelm Eugen (Württemberg) for Stuttgart and Carlsruhe (today: Pokój ), 1878 ( Adolf Fremd ) (work lost)
- Bust of Wilhelm Hauff for the Hauff Memorial in Stuttgart, 1882 ( Wilhelm Rösch )
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.
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- Wolfgang W. Kress: From tin to ore - The Stuttgart art ore foundry family Pelargus . in "Schwäbische Heimat", vol. 38, 1987; Pp. 100-111
- August Wintterlin : Rough, serious . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 27, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, p. 375 f. (mentioned there)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Coordinates: Pelargus ore foundry .
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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 |