# Ludwig Manzel > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Ludwig_Manzel > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Ludwig_Manzel.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Manzel > Source revision: 1300174343 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|German sculptor, painter and graphic artist}} {{refimprove|date=May 2014}} thumb|200px|Ludwig Manzel (1912), by Fritz Burger (1877-1916), the art historian. '''Karl Ludwig Manzel''' (3 June 1858, [Neu Kosenow](/source/Neu_Kosenow) – 20 June 1936, [Berlin](/source/Berlin)) was a German sculptor, painter and graphic artist. == Life == [[File:Friedrich I Brandenburg Siegesallee Zitadelle.JPG|thumb|165px|left|Frederick I from the [Siegesallee](/source/Siegesallee), now in the [Spandau Citadel](/source/Spandau_Citadel)]] His father was a tailor and his mother was a [midwife](/source/midwife). The family moved twice, first to [Boldekow](/source/Boldekow) then, in 1867, to [Anklam](/source/Anklam) where he attended the Gymnasium. It was there that he first expressed a desire to study art, but this was not supported by his parents. In 1875, at the age of seventeen, he arrived in Berlin, penniless, with the intention of enrolling at the [Prussian Academy of Arts](/source/Prussian_Academy_of_Arts). He supported his education by teaching drawing at a commercial art school and providing illustrations to the magazines ''[Ulk](/source/Ulk)'' (Joke, or Spoof) and ''Lustige Blätter'' (The Funny Papers). Among his teachers at the Academy were [Albert Wolff](/source/Albert_Wolff_(sculptor)) and [Fritz Schaper](/source/Fritz_Schaper).[http://androom.home.xs4all.nl/biography/p012509.htm Androom Archives: Brief biography] Under the aegis of a sculptor's association called "Am Wege" (On the Way), he had his first successes and obtained a one-year scholarship to Paris, where he actually remained for three years, working in a major art studio. ===Successes in Berlin=== In 1889, he returned to Berlin, became a free-lance artist and developed a standing contract with the Imperial Family to produce busts and [relief](/source/Relief_(art))s. His true breakthrough came in 1894, when he was commissioned to do figures for the [Berlin Cathedral](/source/Berlin_Cathedral) and the [Reichstag](/source/Reichstag_building). In 1895, he became a member of the Academy and, the following year, a Professor at the [Museum of Applied Arts](/source/Kunstgewerbemuseum_Berlin). In 1903, he succeeded [Reinhold Begas](/source/Reinhold_Begas) as head of the Masters Studio, a position he held until 1925. Perhaps his best-known student was [Josef Thorak](/source/Josef_Thorak), one of the "official sculptors" of the [Third Reich](/source/Third_Reich). He served two terms as President of the Academy; from 1912 to 1915 and from 1918 to 1920. In 1914, he was one of the signatories to the [Manifesto of the Ninety-Three](/source/Manifesto_of_the_Ninety-Three), a document supporting Germany's invasion of Belgium. thumb|215px|"Manzelbrunnen" (Manzel's Fountain); a postcard from c.1899-1913 He was a friend of both Kaiser [Wilhelm II](/source/Wilhelm_II) and [Georg Wertheim](/source/Georg_Wertheim). When the Kaiser renovated an old manor for use as a summer residence in [Cadinen](/source/Kadyny), he contracted with Manzel to help modernize the [earthenware](/source/earthenware) factory there, as well as produce new [Jugendstil](/source/Jugendstil) designs for pitchers, vases and jars. When the project was completed in 1905, the [Wertheim Department Store](/source/Wertheim_(department_store)) obtained exclusive rights to sell the new products. In his final years, he turned to painting, producing altarpieces for several churches in [Charlottenburg](/source/Charlottenburg). One of his last works was a bronze medallion of [Joseph Goebbels](/source/Joseph_Goebbels). His grave at the [Stahnsdorf South-Western Cemetery](/source/Stahnsdorf_South-Western_Cemetery) is decorated with a female head he sculpted at an early stage of his career. == Selected major works == * '''1894''': Figures of the Apostles for the Berlin Cathedral. * '''1898''': A figure named "Sedina" (a symbolic embodiment of the city of [Stettin](/source/Stettin)), in a fountain which came to be known as the "Manzelbrunnen". It was dismantled and melted for the copper in 1942. The fountain was later reconstructed with an anchor as the centerpiece. In 2012, the Szczecin City Council approved the re-establishment of a Sedina figure there. * '''1900''': Group 15 in the [Siegesallee](/source/Siegesallee) (Victory Avenue), consisting of [Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg](/source/Frederick_I%2C_Elector_of_Brandenburg) as the central figure, flanked by side figures of the knight Johannes von Hohenlohe (1370-1412) and the [Landeshauptmann](/source/Landeshauptmann) Wend von Ileburg. * '''1906''': Statue representing "Labor", on the first floor landing of Wertheim's department store, [Leipziger Platz](/source/Leipziger_Platz). * '''1912-1924''': A monumental Christ-relief on the theme "Come unto me, all ye who labor...", with 24 figures. Intended for a Protestant church in [Gnesen](/source/Gnesen), it could not be installed because that city was returned to Poland in 1920.''Mitteilungen, Erstes Heft'', Verlag der Historischen Gesellschaft für Posen, Berlin 1925, pg.79 Since 1932, it has been part of a grave memorial for [F. W. Murnau](/source/F._W._Murnau) in the Südwestkirchhof Stahnsdorf, not far from Manzel's own grave. ==References== {{reflist}} == Further reading == * Manzel, Ludwig. In: [Thieme-Becker](/source/Thieme-Becker), ''Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart''. Vol. 24, E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1930, pg.47 * Julius Norden: ''Skulpturen von Ludwig Manzel. 20 Taf. Lichtdr. Nach d. Künstlers Werken'', 1903 * Peter Hahn: ''Zum 70. Todestag des Bildhauers Karl Ludwig Manzel''. In: ''[Märkische Allgemeine](/source/M%C3%A4rkische_Allgemeine)'', 15 February 2007. * Jürgen Schröder: ''Fleißig und "technisch brillant". Vor 150 Jahren wurde der Bildhauer Ludwig Manzel in Kagendorf bei Anklam geboren.'' In: ''Heimatkurier.'' supplement to the ''Nordkurier'', 2 June 2008, pg.28 * Ilse Krumpöck: ''Die Bildwerke im Heeresgeschichtlichen Museum''. Vienna 2004, pg.115 == External links == {{Commonscat inline|Karl Ludwig Manzel|Ludwig Manzel}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Manzel, Ludwig}} Category:1858 births Category:1936 deaths Category:Burials at Stahnsdorf South-Western Cemetery Category:German graphic artists Category:German male sculptors Category:19th-century German illustrators Category:20th-century German illustrators Category:Prussian Academy of Arts alumni Category:19th-century German sculptors Category:20th-century German sculptors Category:19th-century German painters Category:20th-century German painters Category:German art educators Category:German magazine illustrators --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Ludwig Manzel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Manzel) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Manzel?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). 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