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Hundrieser, (Franz Richard) Emil
(b Rastenburg, East Prussia [now Ketrzyn, Poland], 13 March 1846; d Berlin, 30 Jan 1911). German sculptor. In 1864 he was a pupil of Rudolf Siemering and in 1865–6 studied sculpture at the Königliche Akademie der Künste in Berlin. He was in Paris in 1867 and the following year exhibited Bacchus (1868) at the Akademie in Berlin. In 1873 he set up his own studio and began to produce numerous decorative sculpted figures as architectural ornament. Although initially his work was influenced by the naturalism of Siemering’s sculpture, it soon began to reflect the Baroque energy inherent in the work of Reinhold Begas. For various public buildings, palaces and squares in Berlin he designed such large commemorative reliefs and statues as the coronation group (1880) for the Anhalter Bahnhof and the monument to Andreas Schlüter (1882–3) for the Technische Hochschule in Charlottenburg. In 1889 the large plaster model for one of his most important commissions, the Berolina, was installed in the Potsdamer Platz on the occasion of the visit of King Humbert I of Italy to Berlin; the final version (copper, 1895; destr.) was set up in the Alexanderplatz. In 1892 he was made a member of the Königliche Akademie and became Professor in 1895. Other significant works are the bronze statue of Emperor Frederick III (1894; ?destr.) in Merseburg and the marble figure of Queen Louise (1895; Berlin, Alte N.G.; on loan to Bad Pyrmont, Kurpark). The bronze equestrian statue of Emperor William I (1896; in situ) was commissioned for the Kyffhäuser monument in Saxony, and another statue of the emperor (bronze, 1897; destr.) was erected at the Deutsches Eck in Koblenz. The Prometheus Fountain (1897–1901; in situ) was designed for the Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Berlin. In 1905 he succeeded Siemering as Director of the Rauchmuseum in Berlin, and shortly before his death his designs for the Haydn-Mozart-Beethoven monument were shown at the Akademie. His son Hans Hundrieser (1872–1929) was also a sculptor.
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