Hans Hubert Dietzsch-Sachsenhausen, Mann mit Adler

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				Price: € 9.500

Description

‘Mann mit Adler’ (‘Man with Eagle’)
Biography: Hans Hubert Dietzsch-Sachsenhausen

Single unique cast, executed in bronze, created in 1923.
Original cast with the core still inside; see also the X-ray photos below.
Smaller, but identical in form to Dietzsch-Sachsenhausen’s World War I Memorial: ‘Denkmal des Garde Kürassier Regiments‘, Heinrich von Kleist Park, Berlin. Height 4 meters. Revealed in 1923. Destructed.

Direct Lost-Wax Casting – the Single Unique Cast
In the direct lost-wax casting process (also named ‘cire perdue’), the sculptor begins by building a roughly modelled clay-core over a metal armature. The clay-core is baked to harden it and drive off moisture, and then a relatively thin layer of wax is applied that receives the detailing of anatomy, texture, facial features and signature. A mold is formed around the wax-model, when the mold is heated the wax melts and creates a space into which molten bronze is poured. Once the bronze is cast, the clay-core and armature can be removed to lessen the weight of the finished sculpture. Occasionally the core and armature rods are -in whole or in part- left inside the bronze. On sculptures meant to be placed outdoors, the clay-core and iron-armature are generally removed in order to avoid damage from absorption of water.
The direct lost wax technique allows the artist to cast directly off of the original model, and is ideal for wax models with complex surface textures as well as large and complex compositions. This casting method produces a Single Unique Cast from a Single Model (as opposed to one that is cast from a mold of an existing model). The original master model is lost in the casting process: producing more copies of the master model is impossible.
When X-ray photos show iron armature or internal frame inside the bronze, it is evident that the direct lost wax casting technique was used and that we have to do with the original cast/model.

X-ray photos taken in 2019 of the (smaller) cast. Clearly visible are the iron wires from the core inside.
  

Hans Hubert Dietzsch-Sachsenhausen, ‘Denkmal des Garde Kürassier Regiments‘ (‘Memorial of the German Guard Cuirassier Regiment‘), Heinrich von Kleist Park, Berlin. Height 4 meters (excluding base). Revealed in 1923. Destructed.
The text on top of the base reads: ‘Non Soli Cedit’, the  motto of the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm I.  It means ‘der Preussische Adler weicht der Sonne nicht’ (‘The Prussian eagle yields not even to the sun’). ‘The text ‘Non Soli Cedit’ was engraved by his successor King Friedrich II in the façade of the New Palace (1769) in Potsdam.
The Guards Cuirassiers were a heavy cavalry regiment of the Royal Prussian Army. Formed in 1815 as a Uhlans regiment, it was reorganized as a cuirassiers unit in 1821. The regiment was part of the Guards Cavalry Division and fought in the Second Schleswig War, the Austro-Prussian War, the Franco-Prussian War and World War I. The regiment was disbanded in September 1919.
The monument was described in ‘Garnison-Friedhof’, 1930, by W. Borchert, as: ‘…in Bronze ausgeführt, verkörpert es in einem schreitenden jugendkräftigen Manne die ungebrochene Kraft des jungen Geschlechts, das berufen ist, den Deutschen Aar wieder zum feien Aufstieg zu bringen‘.
Left: photo depicting the memorial, from the collection of Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941), Huis Doorn, The Netherlands.
Right: the design of the memorial depicted in ‘Velhagen & Klasings Monatshefte’, 1923.
  

Left: ‘Denkmal des Garde Kürassier Regiments‘ by Dietzsch-Sachsenhausen, depicted in ‘Rache und Triumph, -Krieg, Gefühle und Gedenken in der Moderne’, by Loretana de Libero, 2014.
Right: the monument revealed at 9 June 1923.
 

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