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Lot Essay
Wilhelm Haverkamp (1864-1929)
Born in Senden, Bavaria, Haverkamp served apprenticeships with August Schmiemann and Heinrich Fleige in Münster and from 1883 studied at the Prussian Academy of Arts firstly under Albert Wolf and then, in 1885, with Fritz Schaper in whose studio he worked after graduating. Winning the Prix de Rome in 1890 he moved to the Eternal City, staying at the villa of artist and patron Alfred Wilhelm Strohl-Fern (1847-1927) and working with the famous German sculptor Robert Cauer (1831-1893).
Whilst in Rome Haverkamp carved this group of two boys seated on a column for Wilhelm Hüffer (1821-1895). The photograph reproduced here shows the sculptor in his Rome studio in 1891 standing beside a terracotta maquette of this group. Fascinatingly, the model is also shown seated in the background of the photograph.
Wilhelm Hüffer was a wealthy German businessman who with the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian war retired to Rome where he settled at the Palazzo Borghese and established himself amongst Capitolini high society, even receiving the honorary title of Baron. In 1879 Hüffer bought a plot of land on the Via Nazionale and commissioned the French architect Jules Pellechet to build him a Renaissance style palace. Originally displayed in the large columned atrium of the Villa Hüffer, the present lot is the only known marble example of the group. Today the Villa Hüffer is owned by the Bank of Italy.
Born in Senden, Bavaria, Haverkamp served apprenticeships with August Schmiemann and Heinrich Fleige in Münster and from 1883 studied at the Prussian Academy of Arts firstly under Albert Wolf and then, in 1885, with Fritz Schaper in whose studio he worked after graduating. Winning the Prix de Rome in 1890 he moved to the Eternal City, staying at the villa of artist and patron Alfred Wilhelm Strohl-Fern (1847-1927) and working with the famous German sculptor Robert Cauer (1831-1893).
Whilst in Rome Haverkamp carved this group of two boys seated on a column for Wilhelm Hüffer (1821-1895). The photograph reproduced here shows the sculptor in his Rome studio in 1891 standing beside a terracotta maquette of this group. Fascinatingly, the model is also shown seated in the background of the photograph.
Wilhelm Hüffer was a wealthy German businessman who with the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian war retired to Rome where he settled at the Palazzo Borghese and established himself amongst Capitolini high society, even receiving the honorary title of Baron. In 1879 Hüffer bought a plot of land on the Via Nazionale and commissioned the French architect Jules Pellechet to build him a Renaissance style palace. Originally displayed in the large columned atrium of the Villa Hüffer, the present lot is the only known marble example of the group. Today the Villa Hüffer is owned by the Bank of Italy.