Adolf von Donndorf
Adolf von Donndorf(16 February 1835 – 20 December 1916) was a Germansculptor.
Life[edit]
Adolf Donndorf was born inWeimar,the son of a cabinet-maker. Starting in 1853 he was a student ofErnst RietschelinDresden.After Rietschel's death in 1861, he andGustav Adolph Kietzcompleted the largeLuther MonumentinWorms,Germany. Donndorf contributed several statues including standing figures ofReuchlinandFrederick the Wise,seated figures ofSavonarola,Peter Waldoand the allegorical town ofMagdeburgas well as reliefs. His talents as a sculptor were recognized on 12 November 1864 when he was named an honorary member of theDresden Academy of Artsand in 1876 he was appointed professor of sculpture at the Stuttgart Academy of Arts.
Adolf von Donndorf was anhonorary citizenof Weimar and Stuttgart and wasennobledin 1910 allowing him to add "von"to his name. A museum created in his honor in 1907 by the city of Weimar was destroyed at the end ofWorld War II.
His sonKarl August Donndorf(1870–1941) was also a sculptor and one of his father's students.
Adolf von Donndorf died in Stuttgart.
Work[edit]
- Equestrian statue ofCharles Augustus, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenachin Weimar, 1867–1875
- Luther Monument on the Nikolaiplatz inEisenach,1889–1895. With accompanying figures ofSavonarola,Mourning Magdeburg,Frederick the Wise,Peter WaldoandReuchlin
- Angel of the Resurrectionat Rheineck Castle, 1877
- Bronze bust ofFerdinand Freiligrath(cast byGeorg Ferdinand Howaldt) in the Uff-Kirchhof in Bad Cannstatt (Stuttgart), 1877–1879
- Peter von Corneliusstatue inDüsseldorf,erected and unveiled 1879
- Robert Schumannmarble grave monument in the Old Cemetery inBonn,1880
- Kesstner family monument, Dresden.
- Figural group of mother and two children:
- Union Square Drinking Fountain also called the James Fountain,[1]Union Square,New York City, 1881.[2]A standing draped female figure combining common iconic representations of Charity and of Temperance holds an infant and empties a ewer with her left hand, aided by a boy. Lion-mask spouts on the block base spit water into basins.
- Maternal Love Fountain,Zwittau,1892
- Donndorf Fountain,Weimar1895
- Pauline Fountain,Stuttgart1898 (destroyed duringWorld War I,restored in 2008)
- Johann Sebastian Bachstatue inEisenach,originally (1884) on the marketplace in front of the Georgenkirche, since 1938 on the Frauenplan adjacent to the Bachhaus
- BurschenschaftMemorial inJena,1877–1883
- Busts ofMoltkeandBismarckfor theAlte Nationalgalerie,Berlin, 1889
- Kaiser Wilhelm Iequestrian statue and companion figures at the Kaiser Wilhelm I Memorial on the Hohensyburg inDortmund,1897–1902
- Friedrich SchillerMonument at the Württembergischen Staatstheater inStuttgart,1913
- Bust ofOtto von Bismarckon the Bismarckplatz inHeidelberg
- Monument forKarl Anton, Prince of HohenzollerninSigmaringen,1890
- GoetheMonument inKarlsbad,1883
- Luther statue in front of theDresden Frauenkirche,1885
Bibliography[edit]
- Thieme, Ulrich (1913).Allegemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler.Leipzig: E.A. Seemann.
- Saur (2001).Allegemeines Künstlerlexicon.München: K.G. Saur Verlag.
- Rosenberg, Adolf (1889).Geschichte der modernen Kunst.F.W. Grunoal.
References[edit]
- ^Its donor was Daniel Willis James.
- ^The bronze is inscribed "A Donndorf fec STUTTGARTG. Howaldtgeg. Braunschweig ".
- Gilman, Daniel Coit (1906).The New International Encyclopedia.New York: Dodd, Mead and Company.
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