Hermann Feuerhahn

Wilhelm August Hermann Feuerhahn (20 May 1873 in Bönnien [de], Landkreis Marienburg (Hannover) [de], 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 [de] 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 [de] (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 [de] over the Spree in Berlin (with Georg Roch)
• 1915–1917: Donor plaques for the Bismarckturm in Burg im Spreewald (with Georg Roch)