List of works by Otto Lessing
This is a list of the major public architectural sculpture of German sculptor Otto Lessing (1846–1912). Paintings and private commissions are not (yet) included.
| Year | Project | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 1870 | Figure Gladiator | |
| 1873 | Ethnological Museum of Berlin, dome decorations and vestibule mosaics | Niederkirchnerstraße/Stresemann-Straße, Berlin (demolished) |
| 1875–1878 | Reich Chancellory participation in the reconstruction | Wilhelmstraße 77, Berlin (demolished) |
| 1875–1877 | Palais Borsig, figures of engineers and inventors on the facade, with sculptors Reinhold Begas, Erdmann Encke and Emil Hundrieser | Voßstraße 1, Berlin (demolished) |
| 1877 | Palais Strousberg, stucco reliefs | Wilhelmstraße 70, Berlin (demolished) |
| 1877 | Café Bauer interiors | Unter den Linden 26/Friedrichstraße 85a, Berlin (demolished) |
| 1877–1881 | Martin-Gropius-Bau, town coat of arms and figurative friezes | Niederkirchnerstraße 7, Berlin |
| 1877–1881 | Zeughaus sculptures and bronze doors | Berlin (not preserved) |
| 1878–1880 | Reich Justice Ministry sculptures | Voßstraße 4–5, Berlin (demolished) |
| 1878–1884 | Technische Hochschule zu Charlottenburg decorative architectural features, | Charlottenburg, Berlin |
| 1880–1881 | Deutscher Dom attic portals and an interior relief of the Acts of the Apostles | Berlin |
| 1882–1884 | Neues Gewandhaus architectural sculptures | Leipzig (demolished) |
| 1884–1894 | Reichstag allegories of agriculture and cattle breeding on the SW Tower; decorative vases on the cornices; bias reliefs of heraldic representations of the four German Kingdoms of Bavaria, Prussia, Württemberg, and Saxony; | Berlin |
| 1886–1890 | Lessing Monument | Großer Tiergarten, Berlin |
| 1886 | Sculpture group Mutter und Kind | |
| 1887–1891 | Imperial Patent Office architectural sculptures | Luisenstraße 32–34, Berlin |
| 1888–1889 | Salon Railway car on the Imperial train of Wilhelm II | |
| 1888–1895 | Imperial Courts Building, exterior Gable, Tympanum, sculptures, and group of figures Damnation and Salvation on the staircases | Leipzig (reconstructed in plaster) |
| 1891–1895 | Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche architectural sculptures, figures of Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon in the choir (destroyed), Tympanum of Saint George over the Emperor's entrance | Breitscheidplatz, Berlin |
| 1892–1894 | Berlin City Palace ceiling reliefs in the new White Hall | Schloßplatz, Berlin (demolished) |
| 1893 | Marble group Bacchantin mit Amor | |
| 1894 | Marble half figure Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke | |
| 1894 | Marble half figure Ludwig Knaus | |
| 1894–1905 | Berliner Dom scenic reliefs on the three main doors | Berlin |
| 1895–1896 | Bust of Wolfgang Müller von KönigswinterKönigswinter | |
| 1896–1901 | Stadtbad Kreuzberg architectural sculpture | Baerwaldstraße 64–68, Berlin |
| 1897 | Berliner Stadtschloss bronze reliefs of Frederich I and Frederich II | Berlin (demolished) |
| 1897–1900 | Neuer Marstall architectural sculpture Prometheus with the Oceanids and Perseus and Andromeda on the north side | Schloßplatz 7, Berlin |
| 1899–1902 | Stadtbad Prenzlauer Berg architectural sculpture | Oderbergerstraße 57–59, Berlin |
| 1900 | W. Spindler commercial building, architectural sculpture | Leipziger Straße 42, Berlin |
| 1900 | Statue of Albert Achilles, Elector of Brandenburg and busts of Werner von der Schulenburg and Ludwig von Eyb | Siegesallee, Berlin |
| 1900 | Equestrian statue of Kaiser Wilhelm I | Hildesheim (melted) |
| 1901–1903 | Spindlershof | Wallstraße 9–13, Berlin |
| 1900 | Die Kreuzträger/Leben unter dem Kreuze, marble sculpture | Kirkeveien 167/Stensgaten, Oslo, Norway |
| 1901–1904 | Lessingbrücke bronze reliefs and ornamental pillars | Berlin |
| 1902–1903 | Roland Fountain | Kemperplatz, Berlin (demolished) |
| 1902–1903 | Hercules Fountain | Lützowplatz, Berlin (demolished) |
| 1903–1904 | William Shakespeare Monument | Weimar |
| 1903–1910 | Kaiser-Wilhelm-Akademie architectural sculptures | Invalidenstraße 48–49, Berlin |
| 1903–1914 | Berlin State Library allegorical representations, with Robert Schirmer and Constantin Starck | Berlin |
| 1904–1905 | Konzerthaus Berlin participation in the rebuilding | Gendarmenmarkt, Berlin |
| 1904 | Prussian House of Lords Tympanum, figures Nährstand and Wehrstand | Leipziger Straße, Berlin |
| 1907 | Bust of Joseph Joachim | |
| 1910 | St. Michaelis Church, Hamburg pulpit, organ, choir, and stucco ornamentation | Hamburg |
| 1912 | Monument to Martin Luther | Hamburg |
Sources
[edit]- Jörg Kuhn: Otto Lessing (1846–1912). Sculptor, Artisan, Painter. The Life and Work of a Sculptor of late Historicism, in Particular His Architectural Sculpture. (in German) Dissertation, Freie Universität Berlin, 1994.