Gottlieb Elster (8October 18676December 1917) was a German sculptor.
Life
Elster was born in
Kreiensen
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Geography
Kreiensen is situated on the river Leine, approx. north of Northeim, and ...
on 8 October 1867. He studied at the
Braunschweig University of Technology
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from 1888 to 1891, later attending the
Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. He then went to Berlin, where he studied under
Otto Lessing,
Fritz Schaper and, until 1905, worked with
Adolf Brütt. He maintained a private studio during most of these years. In 1910, he became Brütt's successor as Director of the Weimar Sculpture School and their foundry. He returned to Braunschweig in 1913 and remained there until his death.
Selected major works
* 1903: Statue of
Frederick the Great
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in his youth at the Marketplace in
Rheinsberg. (placed in storage by the East German government in 1950; reinstalled in 1995)
Monument to Crown Prince Frederick
* 1910: Monument of Heinrich von Kleist in the ''Kleistpark'', Frankfurt (Oder)
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.
* 1911: Seated sculpture of Queen Louise, in the Trianon-Park, Berlin-Weißen See.
* A soldier kneeling to honor his fallen comrades of the Hannoverian Rifle Battalion #10, completed by Hans Lehmann-Borges (1879–1945), in Goslar
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.
In 1909, he received one of the five prizes given in a competition to create the monument for Fritz Reuter
Fritz Reuter (7 November 1810 – 12 July 1874; born as ''Heinrich Ludwig Christian Friedrich Reuter'') was a novelist from Northern Germany who was a prominent contributor to Low German literature.
Early life
Fritz Reuter was born at Stavenhagen ...
in Stavenhagen, but the contract was eventually awarded to Wilhelm Wandschneider.
References
Further reading
* Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Günter Scheel: ''Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon. 19. und 20. Jahrhundert'', Hannover 1996, pg.161.
External links
Bildhauerei in Berlin: "Caritas" by Elster (1911)
(Note that he is incorrectly called "Gottfried")
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1867 births
1917 deaths
People from Einbeck
People from the Duchy of Brunswick
Technical University of Braunschweig alumni
20th-century German sculptors
20th-century German male artists
German male sculptors
19th-century sculptors
Academic staff of Bauhaus University, Weimar