Hermann Feuerhahn

Wilhelm August Hermann Feuerhahn (20 May 1873 in Bönnien, Landkreis Marienburg (Hannover), Province of Hanover – 19 April 1941[1]) was a German sculptor particularly known for his architectural sculpture.

Life and achievements

Several of his works were created together with Georg Roch and are jointly attributed to Feuerhahn & Roch.

In 1905, Feuerhahn founded the Workshops for Cemetery Art together with Hugo Lederer, Georg Wrba and other sculptors.[2] There, they designed gravestones that were marketed on the basis of type construction with simple modifications.[3]

Feuerhahn died in Berlin at the age of 77.

Work
Frohsinn (from the series Temperamente) in Stadttheater Bremerhaven (1910)
  • 1906–1910: Building sculpture at the Theater Freiburg.[4]
  • 1909: Sculpture work on the Berliner Postscheckamt (design Alfred Lempp, Implementing the building sculpture with Christoph Hasselwander).[5]
  • 1909: Sculpture work on the Hebbel Theater in Berlin (architect: Oskar Kaufmann).[6]
  • 1911–1912: Sculptural decoration of the façades and interiors of the Stadttheater Bremerhaven (with Georg Roch; architect: Oskar Kaufmann).[7]
  • 1914/1915: Sculptural ornamentation (masks on the parapets) for the Gerickesteg over the Spree in Berlin (with Georg Roch)
  • 1915–1917: Donor plaques for the Bismarckturm in Burg im Spreewald (with Georg Roch)

References
  1. StA Schmargendorf, Sterbeurkunde Nr. 298/1941
  2. Hermann Feuerhahn on Artnet
  3. Uta Lehnert: Den Toten eine Stimme. Der Parkfriedhof Lichterfelde. Edition Hentrich, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-89468-204-3, p. 38.
  4. Michael Klant: Vergessene Bildhauer. In Skulptur in Freiburg. Kunst des 19. Jahrhunderts im öffentlichen Raum. Freiburg 2000, ISBN 3-922675-77-8, pp. 171f.
  5. Berlin in der Berliner Landesdenkmalliste
  6. Antje Hansen: Oskar Kaufmann. Ein Theaterarchitekt zwischen Tradition und Moderne. Gebr. Mann, Berlin 2001, pp. 222–229.
  7. Hans Schliepmann: Oskar Kaufmanns Stadttheater in Bremerhaven. In Berliner Architekturwelt. 17. Jahrgang 1914/1915, issue 2, pp. 45–84. ()

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