Wilhelm Sauer (sculptor)

Diana fountain in front of the Fürstenberg Brauereistüble in Donaueschingen

Monument to Grand Duke Friedrich I in Bräunlingen

Children's group with billy goats, Karlsruhe City Garden

Wilhelm Sauer (born September 23, 1865 in Adelshofen , † March 20, 1929 in Durlach ) was a German sculptor .

Life

The trained carpenter initially worked as a wood sculptor . He later studied at the Karlsruhe Art Academy , where he became a student of Hermann Volz , with whom he stayed for ten years until 1896. In 1903 he went on study trips to Paris and then to Rome, where he also worked with Joseph von Kopf . From 1909 he was a teacher for modeling at the painters' school in Karlsruhe . From 1903 to 1915 he also created designs for the Karlsruhe majolica factory.

Works (selection)

• Bräunlingen : Monument to Grand Duke Friedrich I (bust, 1909)
• Donaueschingen :
  • Dianabrunnen (1904; in memory of the visit of the imperial couple and their daughter Viktoria Luise )
  • Scheffeldenkmal
• Gondelsheim : Building sculpture on the castle of the Counts Douglas
• Karlsruhe
  • Siegfriedbrunnen
  • Hanselbrunnen
  • Building sculpture at the Johanniskirche
  • Busts on the crossing pillar of the Grand Ducal burial chapel
  • Wall relief in the school room of the Christ Church in the Weststadt
  • Sculpture in the city garden (children's group with billy goat)
  • Grave sites: the Ruh family, manufacturer Friedrich Wolff in the main cemetery
• Offenburg : War memorial 1870/1871 on the market square (unveiled on June 4, 1893)
• Schopfheim : Memorial to Grand Duke Friedrich I of Baden and the local soldiers who fell in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/1871 at the Protestant town church (1910)

literature

• Sauer, Wilhelm . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 29 : Rosa – Scheffauer . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1935, p. 491 .

Web links

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

• Katja Förster: Wilhelm Sauer in the Stadtlexikon Karlsruhe
• Wilhelm Sauer in the Stadtwiki Karlsruhe

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe (ed.): Karlsruher Majolika. Guide to the museum in the majolica. INFO Verlag, Karlsruhe 2004, ISBN 3-88190-368-2 , p. 76. (Short biography, books.google.com ).
2. ↑ Dianabrunnen at www.donaueschingen.de , last accessed on January 19, 2017
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Sauer, Wilhelm . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 29 : Rosa – Scheffauer . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1935, p. 491 .
4. ↑ Anett Beckmann: Mental history and aesthetic investigations of the sculptural tombs of the Karlsruhe main cemetery . KIT Scientific Publishing, Karlsruhe 2006, ISBN 3-86644-032-4 , p. 38–39, 79–80 and 181 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive - Dissertation with short biography).
5. ^ Manfred Kels: Offenburg, Ortenaukreis, Baden-Württemberg: War memorial Offenburg 1870/71 . (2006), last accessed on January 23, 2013