Hermann Prell

Hermann Prell ( born April 29, 1854 in Leipzig, † May 18 1922 in Loschwitz / since 1922 part of Dresden ) was a German sculptor, historical and monumental painter and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden.

Life

He pursued his education in Dresden, in 1876 to switch to Carl Gussow to the Berlin Academy. The almost same age as Max Klinger was especially Arnold Böcklin his idol. Hans von Marées who had taught him from around 1878 in Rome, took a skeptical attitude toward him. After he taught at the Berlin Academy of Art since 1886, was in 1892 appointed professor at the Dresden Art Academy. He went in 1914 to retire. His studio and apartment were from 1897 in a villa on the banks of the Elbe. His son is the Tharandter zoologist Heinrich Prell ( 1888-1962 ).

With Alfred Messel, Otto Lessing and Christian Behrens bounce joined a fruitful artistic collaboration.

The main importance Prells is in the range of monumental painting since recommended him to his sense of pompous - decorative effect, as it was called for in the Wilhelmine era, especially for this subject. Based on studies put bounce on a value based on the shapes of the High Renaissance ideal style, but aimed to naturalistic- illusionistic effect. In the overall composition of his cycles Prell was anxious to ignore the wall within the meaning of Baroque and give through fictitious perforations same to the visitor the feeling of space extension.

In February 1945, many of his paintings burned in the building of the Foreign Office in Berlin and Dresden in his scenes from Greek mythology in the stairwell of the Albertinum and in the ballroom of the New Town Hall.

Works (selection)

Painting

  • Saint George and the Archangel Michael slaying the dragon, 1908 Helio Gravure, dedicated to Martin Wigand, sheet size is about 36.5 to 20.2 cm.
  • The Last Hunt
  • The water woman
  • Excellence Mohr
  • Prometheus
  • Cube water woman
  • Dice Last Hunt, 1878

Busts

  • Otto Schiller, 1887-1891, State Art Collections Dresden Albertinum

Sculptures

  • Female Herme, Sculpture, 1883-1885, marble, colored framed by him, Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig

Honors

  • After the incorporation of Loschwitz to Dresden in 1922 Eschebach street was named after the manufacturer Carl Emil Eschebach, in Hermann Prell Street renamed because there was already an eponymous street in Pieschen district.

Student

  • Otto Fischer (1870-1947)
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