Alexander Calandrelli
Alexander Emil Ludovico Calandrelli ( born May 9, 1834 in Berlin, † May 26 1903 in Lankwitz ) was a German sculptor of Italian descent.
Life
The son of 1832 appointed from Rome gem cutter and draftsman Giovanni Calandrelli graduated from 1847 to 1850, the Berlin Academy of Arts. Lack of money, however, he had to prematurely discontinue his studies. He could, however, his training in the workshops from August Wredow, Friedrich Wilhelm Berg Thanks continue ( until 1852 ) and Friedrich Drake ( until 1855 ). He then worked until 1863 when Ferdinand August Fischer. Beginning in 1864, he ran his own workshop. Small wax works whose production he had learned from Fischer, made the transition to larger sculptures. Calandrellis first major guard work were models for a silver table centerpiece.
1874 Calandrelli Professor of Sculpture, 1883 and 1887 Senate member of the Academy of Arts. Among his most famous students include August Gaul and Martin Goetze.
Alexander Calandrelli was buried in Berlin on the state-owned cemetery Wilmersdorf, Berlin Street 81-103. In Berlin - Lankwitz a street was named after him already before 1878.
Services
Calandrelli belonged since the 1870s to the preferred artists of the imperial court. The moderate classicism of his work marks him as a late representative of the smoke - school in the Berlin school of sculpture, massive lost their influence at the end of the 19th century in importance. For quiet still images with the required large portrait of accuracy, he was one of the better sculptors of his time. Of this evidence can be found in Rathenow. Here he created on behalf of the entrepreneur Emil Busch in 1885, the monument of the founder of the German optical industry Johann Heinrich August Duncker, which today welcomes visitors to the station forecourt in Rathenow.
Works
- In the National Gallery in Berlin are located 1866/67 seated statue of Peter Cornelius after a design by Gustav winds as Attica statue for the 1884 demolished Palais des Athanasius art collector Count Raczynski; a plaster cast should have been in the Museum of Gotha ( lost)
- 1874 Muse Thalia, design model for architectural sculpture of the National Gallery in Berlin
- 1878/79 allegory of art; Auxiliary model to a base figure of the monument to King Friedrich Wilhelm IV on the steps of the National Gallery
- 1878/79 allegory of religion ( as before )
- 1880/81 Marble statue of Peter von Cornelius; formerly in the vestibule of the Altes Museum Berlin
- 1870 Ensemble: Four German currents - four groups of figures from sandstone in the Tiergarten at Grand Prince Square / John -Foster - Dulles -Allee, opposite the House of World Cultures. The figures, originally created for the 1882 Royal bridge torn at Alexanderplatz, then stood around a Triton Fountain by Joseph of head in a semicircle around. The figures are sometimes missing heads, they are smeared and have bullet holes. Currently they are in a depot, only the fountain and the base are available.
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