Georg Ferdinand Howaldt

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Prof. Georg Howaldt
(1802–1883)

Georg Ferdinand Howaldt (born 8 April 1802 in Braunschweig, died 19 January 1883 in Braunschweig) was a German sculptor.

1 Biography
2 Works
3 Gallery
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[edit] Biography

Born as son of the silversmith David Ferdinand Howaldt he learned silversmith and then went to Nürnberg, where he became friend with the sculptor Jacob Daniel Burgschmiet who convinced him to change into modelling and sculpture. He became a teacher in modelling there and continued teaching modelling when back to Braunschweig in 1836. The success out of his cooperation with the famous sculptor Ernst Rietschel allowed him to start his own foundry casting sculptures for many known German sculptors of the nineteenth century. Since 1863 he was professor at the Collegium Carolinum zu Braunschweig, today Braunschweig Technical university. His son Hermann Heinrich Howaldt, also a sculptor, joined him and continued his work and the foundry under Howaldt & Sohn until his own death.

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Quadriga with the Brunswick goddess Brunonia at Braunschweig castle designed by Ernst Rietschel
Lessing - Memorial for Braunschweig designed by Rietschel
Angels for the grave of Prince Albert in the Frogmore Mausoleum designed by Adolf Breymann
Memorial Alexander von Humboldt designed by Gustav Blaeser, Central Park, Manhattan
Equestrian sculpture of Friedrich Wilhelm (Brunswick and Lüneburg) designed by Ernst Hähnel
Equestrian sculpture of Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg for Braunschweig designed by Franz Pönninger, Vienna