Wilhelm Striker

Allegorical representations of the arts and sciences on the south elevation of the Neues Museum, which Wilhelm Stürmer was involved in carrying out, from Friedrich August Stüler , Das Neues Museum in Berlin , Riedel 1862

Ludwig Wilhelm Stürmer (* 1812 in Berlin ; † 1885 there ) was a German sculptor .

Life

He was born in Berlin in 1812 as the son of the painter and etcher Heinrich Stürmer (1774 or 1775–1855) and brother of the history and fresco painter Karl Stürmer. At the Prussian Academy of the Arts he was a student of Ludwig Wilhelm Wichmann and Christian Daniel Rauch . From 1838 he was in Munich with Ludwig Schwanthaler . In the 1840s he worked again in Berlin. He was involved in the sculptural jewelry of the Neues Museum . Another collaboration at the end of the 1840s is known with Friedrich August Stüler at the Königstor and the Roßgärter Tor in Königsberg .

He had two children with his wife Charlotte, née Bonge (1833 - around 1905). In 1885, Stürmer committed suicide .

Works

• Berlin
  • Participation in the allegorical statues on the north and south projections of the Neues Museum
  • Medallion eagle with snake (1853) for the base of the groups of figures on the palace bridge ( attributed to the sculptor Friedrich Wilhelm Wolff according to other sources )
  • Italia Group , Berlin Stock Exchange (1860)
  • allegorical statues of industry and shipping on the roof of the imperial palace
• Greifswald - Statues Duke Wartislaw IX. of Pomerania , Duke Bogislaw XIV. of Pomerania , Friedrich Wilhelm III. von Prussia , Friedrich I of Sweden , Rubenow monument in front of the university
• Koenigsberg i. Pr.
  • a series of statuettes of Prussian regents for the castle in Königsberg (before 1847)
  • Plastic jewelry at the Königstor (architect Friedrich August Stüler ), u. a. three statues of rulers: King Ottokar II of Bohemia , Duke Albrecht of Brandenburg-Ansbach and King Friedrich I in Prussia (1847)
  • two colossal sandstone statues at the Friedländer Thor in Koenigsberg
• Potsdam - Execution of the allegorical figures January (1865), February (1866) and October (1866) based on models by Hermann Schievelbein at the Orangery Palace
• Putbus - the sandstone statue of the Great Elector on his monument near Putbus
• Rastenburg - Colossal statue of Duke Albrecht in the educational institution in Rastenburg
• Rügen - Execution of the statues of the Prussian columns (1854/55)

literature

• Striker, Wilhelm (Ludwig W.) . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 32 : Stephens – Theodotos . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1938, p. 242 .

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