Erdmann Encke

Erdmann Encke ( born January 26, 1843 in Berlin, † July 7, 1896 in New Babelsberg near Potsdam ) was a German sculptor. Encke belonged to the school of smoke Berlin school of sculpture.

Life

Erdmann Encke was supposedly a descendant of the compound of Countess Lichtenau with Friedrich Wilhelm II, and thus related to the Prussian royal family. His younger brother Fedor Encke (1851-1926) worked as a successful portrait painter.

Encke was a student of Albert Wolff and debuted with the group of Germans in the fight with two Gauls, the witness of energy in the conception and great freedom of movement. After a group: Odysseus had taking of the Penelope farewell, exhibited, he obtained the job at the competition for the monument of Friedrich Ludwig Jahn in Berlin hare heath, which, full of character conceived and carried out with healthy realism, cast in bronze in 1872 revealed been. He also created the bronze statue of the Elector Frederick I of Brandenburg for a niche next to the main entrance of the Berlin City Hall and in 1880 unveiled marble statue of Queen Louise in the Tiergarten, which he as well as his round pedestal with the departure and the return of warriors female concern performing the wounded relief decorated. For the Berlin Hall of Fame, he worked the bronze statues of the Great Elector and Frederick the Great. He also dealt with bronze portrait busts, in which he applied the polychromy with happiness, as well as with graceful genre figures (like the boy with pony in Berlin's Tiergarten ).

Since 1882 a full member and senator of the Academy of Arts in Berlin, he was appointed Imperial Court sculptor later. The support of the Red Eagle Order 4th class was buried in the Old Cemetery Wannsee in a grave of honor.

Friedrich Ludwig Jahn in the Hasenheide (Berlin)

Elector Joachim II, 1889, Reformation Course ( Spandau Altstadt)

Grave of honor, along with the son Eberhard Encke, also sculptor

Plant selection

  • Ideal sculptures germane in the fight with two Gauls and Odysseus and Penelope
  • 1872 Broncestandbild Jahn - Hasenheide park Berlin- Neukölln
  • 1880 Marble Monument Queen Louise - replica Großer Tiergarten Berlin, original on the Spandau Citadel
  • 1883 Broncestatue Elector Frederick I of Brandenburg - formerly in the Lord's Hall in Berlin armory, now at Hohenzollern Castle
  • 1886 Broncestatue King Frederick II of Prussia - formerly in the Lord's Hall in Berlin armory, now at Hohenzollern Castle
  • 1896 bangs and Knappe - Tiergarten near Schloss Bellevue
  • 1889 Broncestatue Elector Joachim II - Reformationsplatz Berlin -Spandau
  • 1890 bronze group Electress Elisabeth, her son Joachim Christian teachings erteilend - Alte Nationalgalerie Berlin
  • 1894 sarcophagi Kaiser Wilhelm I and Empress Augusta and Archangel Michael - Mausoleum at Charlottenburg Palace
Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz Wilhelmine, Gräfin von Lichtenau Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg Rotes Rathaus Spandau (locality) Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie Integrated Authority File
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