Georg Ferdinand Howaldt

Georg Ferdinand Howaldt ( born April 8, 1802 in Braunschweig, † January 19, 1883 ) was a German goldsmith, sculptor and ore caster.

Life

Georg Howaldt was born in Brunswick, the son of originating from Wroclaw Brunswick Goldsmith David Ferdinand Howaldt. After the orphanage - school visit, he first learned from his father from 1816 to 1821, the goldsmith and then formed six years on the move (including the silversmiths Häberlein in Nuremberg) away. Even in Braunschweig he had practiced in addition to teaching in the modeling and not least because of the experiences of Nuremberg friendship with Jacob Daniel Burgschmiet he turned his work in sculpture and art casting to. In 1828, he was the successor Burgschmiets teacher of modeling at the Polytechnic School in Nuremberg, in 1836 teacher of modeling and in 1863 professor at the Collegium Carolinum of Brunswick, now the Technical University. Among his pupils was also Adolf Breymann. 1874 Georg Howaldt was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Henry the Lion.

Georg Howaldt married on 20 March 1832 in Nuremberg Barbara Hechinger and had with her five children, including the third child of vorverstorbene sculptor August. He died on January 19, 1883 in Braunschweig. His grave in the Magnifriedhof in the immediate vicinity of Lessing tomb is preserved. Christian Daniel Rauch thought he was the best ore caster of his time. This is not least because of his knowledge and skills in the creation of large monuments in repoussé work, an artisan method that was described for the first time in the modern era of Benvenuto Cellini again.

Work

From his today between Howaldtstraße and high street remains can still picture foundry and workshop, the first of his son Hermann Howaldt († December 2, 1891 ) and then to the suspension of operations in 1906 by longtime collaborator Paul Rinck life and in 1903 again by his grandson Ferdinand Howaldt ( born October 9, 1874) was continued as co Rinck life in the family of artists up to the end of 1906, went for the Brunswick cityscape formative remaining, monumental works out: the Lessing monument ( 1853) and the Brunswick Quadriga with Brunonia on the Braunschweig palace, both designed by Ernst Rietschel. In preparing the Quadriga he exhibited his outstanding skill and technique than copper driver twice abilities when he had to reconnect after the fire of Brunswick Palace. The orders Rietschel gave him the breakthrough and recognition, so that the construction of one's own foundry building was possible. The foundry building was in 1912 sold to the Schlaraffia and still serves today as the club house, called in Braunschweig Okerburg.

In view of the reconstruction of the Brunswick City Palace, the city remembers its increasingly important brass founder. In the Brunswick Museum recently a finger of Brunonia was rediscovered in which even a handwritten note Georg Howaldts was, from which emerged about which finger it is. His work goes far beyond Braunschweig addition: one of the first monuments, which was erected on September 14, 1869 Central Park of New York, Alexander von Humboldt honors. It was made by Georg Howaldt & Son in Braunschweig on a design by Gustav winds.

Works

(Selection)

Henry Fountain in Braunschweig

Lessing monument in Braunschweig

Freiligrath monument and grave in Bad Cannstatt

• Lessing monument after draft Ernst Rietschel (1852 ), bronze casting for Braunschweig
• Monument of Count Blucher design by Franz Bernhard Schiller, lead cast for Altona
• Memorial of the Mayor August Wilhelm Francke design by Gustav Blaeser (1853 ), Erzguss for Magdeburg
• Monument of the economist Friedrich List by design Gustav Adolph Kietzmann (1854 ), bronze casting for Reutlingen
• Brunswick Quadriga with Brunonia after draft Ernst Rietschel, blowing work for Brunswick
• Monument Ernst Moritz Arndt by design Afinger Bernhard (1864 ), bronze casting for Bonn
• Monument to Alexander von Humboldt by design Gustav Blaeser, 1869 for the Central Park of New York
• Fountain statue of Henry the Lion (1869 and 1874 ) to design Adolf Breymann for Henry Fountain, bronze casting for Braunschweig, shown at the World Exhibition Vienna 1873 ( awarded the silver medal )
• Equestrian statue of Duke Carl Wilhelm Ferdinand of Brunswick, design Pönninger Franz, Vienna, unveiling November 10, 1874
• Equestrian statue of the Black Duke Friedrich Wilhelm of Brunswick (Revelation November 10, 1874 ), draft Ernst Hähnel, Dresden
• Relief for the Hermann Monument after a design by Ernst Bandels, 1874
• Bust of Emperor Wilhelm I by design Heinrich Pohlmann, today in the garden of the Villa Staudt in Heringsdorf
• Two angels with sword after Adolf Breymann design for the tomb of the English Prince Consort Albert in Frogmore House at Windsor
• Colossal bust for the grave monument of the writer Ferdinand Freiligrath on the Uff - Kirchhof in Cannstatt, design Adolf von Donndorf, 1878