Hermann Feuerhahn Explained

Wilhelm August Hermann Feuerhahn (20 May 1873 in,, 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 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

• 1906–1910: Building sculpture at the Theater Freiburg.^[4]
• 1909: Sculpture work on the (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 over the Spree in Berlin (with Georg Roch)
• 1915–1917: Donor plaques for the Bismarckturm in Burg im Spreewald (with Georg Roch)

Further reading

• : Feuerhahn, Hermann. In Ulrich Thieme (ed.): Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. Vol. 11: Erman–Fiorenzo. E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1915, (Textarchiv – Internet Archive).

Notes and References

1. StA Schmargendorf, Sterbeurkunde Nr. 298/1941
2. http://www.artnet.com/artists/hermann-feuerhahn/ Hermann Feuerhahn
3. Uta Lehnert: Den Toten eine Stimme. Der Parkfriedhof Lichterfelde. Edition Hentrich, Berlin 1996,, .
4. Michael Klant: Vergessene Bildhauer. In Skulptur in Freiburg. Kunst des 19. Jahrhunderts im öffentlichen Raum. Freiburg 2000,, pp. 171f.
5. Web site: Berlin in der Berliner Landesdenkmalliste . 2021-06-15 . 2021-06-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210616043248/https://www.berlin.de/landesdenkmalamt/denkmale/liste-karte-datenbank/denkmaldatenbank/daobj.php?obj_dok_nr=09080401Postscheckamt . dead .
6. Antje Hansen: Oskar Kaufmann. Ein Theaterarchitekt zwischen Tradition und Moderne. Gebr. Mann, Berlin 2001, .
7. [Hans Schliepmann]