Wilhelm August Hermann Feuerhahn (20 May 1873 in , , Province of Hanover – 19 April 1941StA Schmargendorf, Sterbeurkunde Nr. 298/1941) 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.Hermann Feuerhahn on Artnet There, they designed gravestones that were marketed on the basis of type construction with simple modifications.Uta Lehnert: Den Toten eine Stimme. Der Parkfriedhof Lichterfelde. Edition Hentrich, Berlin 1996, , .
Feuerhahn died in Berlin at the age of 77.
Work
1906–1910: Building sculpture at the Theater Freiburg.Michael Klant: Vergessene Bildhauer. In Skulptur in Freiburg. Kunst des 19. Jahrhunderts im öffentlichen Raum. Freiburg 2000, , pp. 171f. 1909: Sculpture work on the (design Alfred Lempp, Implementing the building sculpture with Christoph Hasselwander). 1909: Sculpture work on the Hebbel Theater in Berlin (architect: Oskar Kaufmann).Antje Hansen: Oskar Kaufmann. Ein Theaterarchitekt zwischen Tradition und Moderne. Gebr. Mann, Berlin 2001, . 1911–1912: Sculptural decoration of the façades and interiors of the Stadttheater Bremerhaven (with Georg Roch; architect: Oskar Kaufmann).Hans Schliepmann: Oskar Kaufmanns Stadttheater in Bremerhaven. In . 17. Jahrgang 1914/1915, issue 2, . () 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)
References
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).
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