Ernst Julius Hähnel

Ernst Hähnel ( born March 9, 1811 in Dresden, † May 22 1891 ibid; Complete name: Ernst Julius Hähnel ) was a German sculptor and professor at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts.

Life

Hähnel studied architecture at the Dresden Art Academy and went to Munich in 1826, where he remained until 1831 initially also architecture, but later studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts. In Munich he met in 1830 Ernst Rietschel and Ludwig Schwanthalerstraße know. Hahnel went in 1831 to Rome and visited the following year with Gottfried Semper Florence. Starting from 1835 Hähnel lived again in Munich and was appointed to Dresden in 1838 Semper and entrusted with the preparation of some of the sculptures on the new Court Opera.

Hähnel created a statue of Ludwig van Beethoven, which was cast in bronze by Jacob Daniel Burgschmiet unveiled 1845 in Bonn. In 1846 Hähnel completed for the 500th anniversary of the University of Prague, the 4 meter high statue of Emperor Charles IV next to the Old Town Bridge Tower. In 1848 Hähnel was a professor at the Dresden Academy of Art and was next to Ernst Rietschel in the subsequent period to the " founder of the Dresden school of sculpture in the second half of the 19th century. " Among his pupils were John Schilling, Carl Röder and Christian Behrens.

He was active in Dresden and created for the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister numerous reliefs and the six sandstone statues of Alexander the Great, Lysippos, Michelangelo, Dante, Raphael and Peter von Cornelius. His Raphael figure he copied for the Berlin National Gallery and the Leipzig Museum. In 1867 his statue of King Friedrich August II was unveiled in Dresden; Four years later a statue of Theodor Körner was erected on the George Square in Dresden. In addition Hähnel created the allegories of architecture and sculpture as facade decoration of the Dresden Art Academy at Bruhl 's Terrace.

Hahnel has also created numerous works throughout Germany and beyond into Europe. The equestrian statue of Karl Philipp zu Schwarzenberg on the Schwarzenberg in Vienna also comes from him as the equestrian statue of Duke Friedrich Wilhelm of Brunswick on the Castle Square. For the Vienna State Opera, he made several sculptures, including the classical and romantic poetry on winged horses. In 1883, his bronze statue of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was unveiled in Leipzig.

Hahnels actual area was the ideal plastic, where he mainly anfertigte portraits. His characters show in their idealistic trains with sober attitude echoes of figure depictions of antiquity. Hahnel 1859 honorary doctorate from the University of Leipzig and on October 11, 1883 honorary citizen of his hometown of Dresden. Hahnel is shown in the last group of the Prince train in Dresden. He died in 1891 in Dresden and was buried in the Old Catholic Cemetery. The grave is not obtained.

Works (selection)

Charles IV in Prague, 1848

Equestrian statue of Karl Philipp Fürst zu Schwarzenberg in Vienna, 1867

Theodor Körner memorial in Dresden, 1871