Ernst Julius Hähnel

Ernst Julius Hähnel (9 March 1811 – 22 May 1891) was a German sculptor and Professor at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts.

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He is especially remembered for his public statuary. His works of art can be admired throughout Germany.

Life

He was born in Dresden on 9 March 1811.

He originally studied architecture at the Dresden Academy then, in 1826, went to the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, where he remained until 1831 and later switched to sculpture after taking classes with Ernst Rietschel and Ludwig Schwanthaler. He took a study trip to Rome and Florence and returned to Munich, living there from 1835 to 1838, when he was appointed to the Dresden Academy.

Upon arriving there, Gottfried Semper entrusted him with the preparation of some sculptures for the new Semperoper (Opera House). In 1845, he created the Beethoven Monument in Bonn, the work which made him famous. He became a full Professor at the Dresden Academy in 1848.^[1] Johannes Schilling and Christian Behrens were among his best-known students.

In 1859, he received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Leipzig and, in 1883, became an Honorary citizen of Dresden.

He died on 22 May 1891 and is buried in the Old Catholic Cemetery in south Dresden.^[2] The original grave was removed due to the German practice of requiring ongoing payments by relatives not being paid, but was replaced by a new grave in April 2016.

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Selected works

1867: Statue of King Frederick Augustus II of Saxony in Dresden
1874: Equestrian statue of Count Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel in Braunschweig
1874: Plaque of Ludwig Tieck at the former location of his home near the Altmarkt in Dresden^[3]

Beethoven Monument, Bonn (1845)
Emperor Charles IV in Prague (1848)
Equestrian statue of Karl Philipp Fürst zu Schwarzenberg in Vienna (1867)
Theodor Körner Monument in Dresden (1871)
Leibniz Monument in Leipzig (1883)

Other notable works

Raphael, Albertinum, Dresden

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Ernst Julius Hähnel

Life

Selected works

Other notable works

References

Further reading

External links

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