Discover sculptor, ornamental sculptor, etcher August Gaul

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: Gaul, Georg August

Qualifications: sculptor, ornamental sculptor, etcher, medalist, painter, watercolorist, lithographer, professor

Nationality/school: German

Born: Grossauheim am Main (Hanau) 1869-10-22
Saur-index: Grossauheim or Hanau; Gabler: Grossauheim

Deceased: Berlin 1921-10-18

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: zoon van Philipp Gaul

See also In this field, you will find references to names of groups or to the artists that made/make up groups. You may also come across references to other artists if there was/is question of collaboration without a joint name. This is the case, for instance, with artists who rendered parts of works by other artists (such as with P.P Rubens and J. Brueghel I).

Gaul werkte samen met Kraus aan de leeuwen van het Kaiser-Wilhelm-Nationaldenkmal.

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Education: Königliche preussische Zeichenakademie (Hanau)

1884-1888 (Gabler 2007)
Unterrichtanstalt des Kunstgewerbemuseum (Berlijn)

tot 1892 verschillende cursussen gevolgd (Gabler 2007)
Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste (Berlijn)

na 1892; 1892-1893 onderwijs van Paul Meyerheim (Gabler 2007); Saur: vanaf 1894
Akademie der Künste (Berlijn 1918-1926)

vanaf 1895 meesterleerling van Reinhold Begas (Gabler 2007)

Active in

Hanau (Darmstadt) 1881 - 1888
vanaf 1881 werkzaam in de werkplaats van zijn vader en vanaf 1887 werkzaam in een zilverwarenfabriek (Gabler 2007)
Berlijn 1888 - 1921
werkzaam als assistent in atelier van Alexander Calandrelli; 1894 als hulpje werkzaam in het atelier van Reinhold Begas, van 1895 tot 1897 meesterleerling van Begas en medewerker aan het 'Kaiser Wilhelm Denkmal' (Saur 1992-)
Hamburg 1888
ca. 1888 waarschijnlijk ook werkzaam als assistent in het atelier van beeldhouwer Carl Börner (1828-1905) (Gabler 2007)
Rome 1897 - 1898
studiereis na het winnen van een stipendium (Saur 1992-)
Florence 1897 - 1898
studiereis (Saur 1992-)
Parijs 1913 - 1914
Zwitserland 1918

active in

died in

Connections with other artists

Pupil of This field mentions the names of teachers or masters. What is at issue are the teachers who made a significant contribution to the development of a students, as opposed to every instructor they ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Begas, Reinhold
Meyerheim, Paul
Alexander Calandrelli
Teacher of This field mentions the names of pupils. What is at issue are the pupils who were significantly influenced by a teacher as opposed to every student someone ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Esser, Max
Fehrle, Jakob Wilhelm
Groß, Wilhelm
Stadler, Toni

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: animal painting (genre), figure, Christian religious scene, mythology, portrait, bird scene
door het winnen van een abonnement voor de Berliner Zoo in 1890, werd zijn interesse gewekt voor het thema: dierentuindieren (Saur 1992-); dieren: vooral eenden, pinguins, leeuwen, beren en schapen

Medium/technique: bronze, moulding plaster, porcelain (material), types of stone (guide term), limestone, ceramic (material), silver
Product: relief, fountain, monument, silverware

Art movement Here we mention the art movement to which an artist belonged. Many art movements have not yet been entered, because the content of this field is still under development.: Berlin Secession
1899

Member of

1908 toetreding tot de Berliner Werkbund (Saur 1992-)

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 5 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Vollmer 1953-1962 , vol. 2, p. 210
Busse 1977 , p. 458
Witt Checklist 1978 , p. 109
Saur 1992- , vol. 50 (2006), p. 227
Bénézit 1999 , vol. 5, p. 914
Saur 1999-2000 , vol. 4, p. 78
Gabler 2007 , p. 12-13
Ludewig/Schoeps/Sonder 2012 , passim

K. Scheffler, 'Die Sammlung Alfred Cassirer', Kunst und Künstler 28 (1930), p. 450-460

Documentation RKD

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Project: Marques de Collections (F. Lugt)

External links: Lugt (Marques de Collections) no. L.123a
Lugt (Marques de Collections) no. L.1068a

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Creation date: 1991-12-15; Last modified date: 2023-02-09

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