Theodor Kalide

Theodor Erdmann Kalide ( born February 8, 1801 in Chorzów, † August 26 1863 in Gliwice ) was a German sculptor.

Life

Kalide studied in Berlin with Johann Gottfried Schadow and Christian Daniel Rauch, he created under the direction of the latter the lions on the grave monument of General Gerhard von Scharnhorst on the disability cemetery in Berlin.

His first independent work, the " boy with a swan ", was commissioned by Frederick William III. executed in bronze for the Charlottenburg Palace garden. This sculpture had been a great success and was later often repeated in zinc cast as a fountain figure. ( cf. boy with a swan in Gliwice / Gleiwitz )

Returning from a trip to Italy in 1846 to Berlin, he modeled for Chorzów 1853 there laid down statue of the Minister Friedrich Wilhelm von Reden in miner 's uniform.

His major work, a drunken Bacchante on a Panther, has received only a torso.

His late works belong to the group of a boy with the goat, and a Madonna and Child.

Kalide died in 1863 and is at the Gliwice Steelworks cemetery buried. In 2005 his tomb was reconstructed.

Works

  • Berlin-Mitte " Dying Lion " on Christian Daniel Rauch Scharnhorst grave monument, Invalidenfriedhof
  • Lion and deer, the park gate of the castle
  • Winckler Monument ( erected 1853)
  • Still image of the mountain Captain Graf speeches ( erected 1853)

Exhibits at the Berlin Academy exhibitions

  • Equestrian statuette of King Frederick II ( the Great), 1826
  • Equestrian statue of King Frederick William III. , 1828
  • Equestrian statuette of Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm ( IV ), 1830

Unexecuted designs

  • Bad Carlsruhe (Silesia ) " Reclining Lion" for a monument of the Duke of Württemberg, for the Castle Park
  • Grave monument to the mountain Captain Karl Theodor Jacob ( pyramid with broken tops )
  • Equestrian statue of King Frederick II, 1839
  • Equestrian statue of King Frederick William III.
  • Still John Joachim Winckelmann, on the porch of the Altes Museum, 1842
  • Friedrich- Schiller Monument, 1862
  • Equestrian statue of King Frederick William III. , 1861

Gallery

Boy with a swan, Gliwice O.S.

Dying Lion, Bytom O.S. marketplace

Supervising Lion, Gliwice O.S., Villa Caro

Supervising Lion, Gliwice O.S., Villa Caro

Figure group Bacchante, Theodor Kalide main work.

Winckler monument in Katowice

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