Hermann Feuerhahn
Wilhelm August Hermann Feuerhahn (20 May 1873 in Province of Hanover – 19 April 1941[1]) was a German sculptor particularly known for his architectural sculpture.
, ,Life and achievements[]
Several of his works were created together with
and are jointly attributed to Feuerhahn & Roch.In 1905, Feuerhahn founded the Workshops for Cemetery Art together with Hugo Lederer, Georg Wrba and other sculptors.[2] There, they designed gravestones that were marketed on the basis of type construction with simple modifications.[3]
Feuerhahn died in Berlin at the age of 77.
Work[]
- 1906–1910: Building sculpture at the Theater Freiburg.[4]
- 1909: Sculpture work on the [5] (design Alfred Lempp, Implementing the building sculpture with Christoph Hasselwander).
- 1909: Sculpture work on the Hebbel Theater in Berlin (architect: Oskar Kaufmann).[6]
- 1911–1912: Sculptural decoration of the façades and interiors of the Stadttheater Bremerhaven (with Georg Roch; architect: Oskar Kaufmann).[7]
- 1914/1915: Sculptural ornamentation (masks on the parapets) for the Spree in Berlin (with Georg Roch) over the
- 1915–1917: Donor plaques for the Bismarckturm in Burg im Spreewald (with Georg Roch)
References[]
- ^ StA Schmargendorf, Sterbeurkunde Nr. 298/1941
- ^ Hermann Feuerhahn on Artnet
- ^ Uta Lehnert: Den Toten eine Stimme. Der Parkfriedhof Lichterfelde. Edition Hentrich, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-89468-204-3, p. 38.
- ^ Michael Klant: Vergessene Bildhauer. In Skulptur in Freiburg. Kunst des 19. Jahrhunderts im öffentlichen Raum. Freiburg 2000, ISBN 3-922675-77-8, pp. 171f.
- ^ Berlin in der Berliner Landesdenkmalliste
- ^ Antje Hansen: Oskar Kaufmann. Ein Theaterarchitekt zwischen Tradition und Moderne. Gebr. Mann, Berlin 2001, pp. 222–229.
- ^ : Oskar Kaufmanns Stadttheater in Bremerhaven. In [1]) . 17. Jahrgang 1914/1915, issue 2, pp. 45–84. (
Further reading[]
- Ulrich Thieme (ed.): Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. Vol. 11: Erman–Fiorenzo. E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1915, p. 517 (Textarchiv – Internet Archive). : Feuerhahn, Hermann. In
External links[]
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- Literature by and about Hermann Feuerhahn in the German National Library catalogue
Categories:
- Modern sculptors
- German sculptors
- 1873 births
- 1941 deaths
- Artists from Hanover