Hermann Feuerhahn
Wilhelm August Hermann Feuerhahn (20 May 1873 in Bönnien, Landkreis Marienburg (Hannover), Province of Hanover – 19 April 1941) was a German sculptor particularly known for his architectural sculpture.
Also recorded as Wilhelm August Hermann Feuerhahn
Hermann Feuerhahn
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- Born
- 1873
- Died
- 1941 · Berlin.
- Nationality
- Kingdom of Prussia · Free State of Prussia · German Reich
- Occupation
- sculptor
- Languages
- German
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Wilhelm August Hermann Feuerhahn (20 May 1873 in Bönnien, Landkreis Marienburg (Hannover), Province of Hanover – 19 April 1941) was a German sculptor particularly known for his architectural sculpture.
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Hermann Feuerhahn (1873–1941) was a sculptor, a national of the Free State of Prussia and German Reich. The sculptor died in Berlin. Hermann Feuerhahn lived in Berlin. Languages used include German.
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Several of his works were created together with Georg Roch 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. There, they designed gravestones that were marketed on the basis of type construction with simple modifications. Feuerhahn died in Berlin at the age of 77.
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• Illustration — Frohsinn (from the series Temperamente) in Stadttheater Bremerhaven (1910) • 1906–1910: Building sculpture at the Theater Freiburg. • 1909: Sculpture work on the Markthalle IV#Berliner Postscheckamt (design Alfred Lempp, Implementing the building sculpture with Christoph Hasselwander). • 1909: Sculpture work on the Hebbel Theater in Berlin (architect: Oskar Kaufmann). • 1911–1912: Sculptural decoration of the façades and interiors of the Stadttheater Bremerhaven (with Georg Roch; architect: Oskar Kaufmann). • 1914/1915: Sculptural ornamentation (masks on the parapets) for the Gerickesteg over the Spree in Berlin (with Georg Roch) • 1915–1917: Donor plaques for the Bismarckturm in Burg im Spreewald (with Georg Roch)
Hebbel-Theater in Berlin
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Hermann Feuerhahn - Tauzieher, c. 1914
Hermann Feuerhahn / Hermann Boll · Große Berliner Kunstausstellung 1914, Katalog
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1873
Hermann Feuerhahn was born on 20 May 1873.
1941
Hermann Feuerhahn died on 1 January 1955.
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- 1.StA Schmargendorf, Sterbeurkunde Nr. 298/1941
- 2.Hermann Feuerhahn on Artnet
- 3.Uta Lehnert: Den Toten eine Stimme. Der Parkfriedhof Lichterfelde. Edition Hentrich, Berlin 1996, , .
- 4.Michael Klant: Vergessene Bildhauer. In Skulptur in Freiburg. Kunst des 19. Jahrhunderts im öffentlichen Raum. Freiburg 2000, , pp. 171f.
- 5.Berlin in der Berliner Landesdenkmalliste.
- 6.Antje Hansen: Oskar Kaufmann. Ein Theaterarchitekt zwischen Tradition und Moderne. Gebr. Mann, Berlin 2001, .
- 7.Hans Schliepmann: Oskar Kaufmanns Stadttheater in Bremerhaven. In . 17. Jahrgang 1914/1915, issue 2, . (https://digital.zlb.de/viewer/resolver?urn=urn:nbn:de:kobv:109-opus-5427)
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His recorded language was German. His recorded confession was Protestant. Recorded as a citizen of Free State of Prussia. Recorded with the occupation sculptor.
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