Adolf von Donndorf

Adolf von Donndorf (16 February 1835 - 20 December 1916) was a German sculptor.

Life

Adolf Donndorf was born in Weimar, the son of a cabinet-maker.Starting in 1853 he was a student of Ernst Rietschel in Dresden. After Rietschel's death in 1861, he and Gustav Adolph Kietz completed the Luther monument in Worms, Donndorf contributing several statues (including standing figures of Reuchlin and Frederick the Wise, seated figures of Savonarola, Peter Waldo and the allegorical city of Magdeburg) as well as reliefs. His talents as a sculptor were recognized on 12 November 1864 when he was named an honorary member of the Dresden Academy of Arts. In 1876 he was appointed professor of sculpture at the Stuttgart Academy of Arts.

Adolf von Donndorf was an honorary citizen of Weimar and Stuttgart and was ennobled in 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 of World War II.

His son Karl August Donndorf (1870 - 1941) was also a sculptor, and one of his father's students.

Adolf von Donndorf died in Stuttgart.

Work

* Equestrian statue of Charles Augustus, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach in Weimar, 1867-1875
* Angel of the Resurrection at Rheineck Castle, 1877
* Bronze bust of Ferdinand Freiligrath (cast by Georg Ferdinand Howaldt) in the Uff-Kirchhof in Bad Cannstatt (Stuttgart), 1877-1879
* Peter von Cornelius statue in Düsseldorf, erected and unveiled 1879
* Robert Schumann marble grave monument in the Old Cemetery in Bonn, 1880
* Figural group of mother and two children:
** Union Square Drinking Fountain also called the James Fountain, Union Square, New York City, 1881
** Maternal Love Fountain, Zwittau, 1892
** Donndorf Fountain, Weimar 1895
** Pauline Fountain, Stuttgart 1898 (destroyed during World War I, restored in 2008)
* Johann Sebastian Bach statue in Eisenach, originally (1884) on the marketplace in front of the Georgenkirche, since 1938 on the Frauenplan adjacent to the Bachhaus
* Luther Monument on the Nikolaiplatz in Eisenach, 1889-1895
* Burschenschaft Memorial in Jena, 1877-1883
* Busts of Moltke and Bismarck for the Alte Nationalgalerie, 1889
* Kaiser Wilhelm I equestrian statue and companion figures at the Kaiser Wilhelm I Memorial on the Hohensyburg in Dortmund, 1897-1902
* Friedrich Schiller Monument at the Württembergischen Staatstheater in Stuttgart, 1913
* Bust of Otto von Bismarck on the Bismarckplatz in Heidelberg
* Monument for Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern in Sigmaringen, 1890
* Goethe Monument in Karlsbad, 1883
* Luther statue in front of the Dresden Frauenkirche, 1885

Bibliography

*cite book | last=Thieme | first=Ulrich | title=Allegemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler | location=Leipzig | publisher=E.A. Seemann | year=1913
*cite book | last=Saur | title=Allegemeines Künstlerlexicon | location=München | publisher=K.G. Saur Verlag | year=2001
*cite book | last=Rosenberg | first=Adolf | title=Geschichte der modernen Kunst | publisher=F.W. Grunoal | year=1889
*cite book | last=Gilman | first=Daniel Coit | title=The New International Encyclopedia | location=New York | publisher=Dodd, Mead and Company | year=1906

Persondata
NAME = Donndorf, Adolf von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES = Donndorf, Adolf ; Donndorf, Karl Adolf
SHORT DESCRIPTION = German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH = 16 February 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH = Weimar
DATE OF DEATH = 20 December 1916
PLACE OF DEATH = Stuttgart