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Hermann Noack, or Noack Foundry (German: Bildgießerei Hermann Noack GmbH & Co.), is a German art foundry in Berlin, named after its original proprietor and his three direct descendants, all with the same name, who have run the business. Most of its works are cast in bronze.
The company was founded by Hermann Noack in 1897, with early support from the sculptors August Gaul and Fritz Klimsch. Noack was born in Oberlausitz and educated in Lauchhammer. He learned his craft at the Gladenbeck foundry before setting up his own business. He had worked on the National Kaiser Wilhelm Monument by Reinhold Begas.
The foundry has been run by four generations of the same family, all with the same name:
The business moved to Fehlerstraße in Friedenau, then a small settlement near Berlin. The premises were rebuilt after the Second World War, and the foundry remained in Friedenau until 2009. It moved to a new, larger 10,000 square metres (110,000 sq ft) building in Charlottenburg in 2010, on Am Spreebord near the River Spree.
The company cast the work of sculptor Renée Sintenis from 1913 onwards, and has cast replicas of her Berliner Bär, used as the statuette for the Golden Bear award in the Berlin International Film Festival, since the third Berlinale in 1953, [1] [2]
The company was involved with the restoration of Johann Gottfried Schadow's copper quadriga on the Brandenburg Gate in the 1950s, and the restoration of Friedrich Drake's gilded statue of Victory on the Berlin Victory Column.
Noack also cast the Mother with her Dead Son by Käthe Kollwitz in the Neue Wache, and has made many other works for dozens of artists, including Hans Arp, Ernst Barlach, Georg Baselitz, Joseph Beuys, Alexander Calandrelli, Luciano Castelli, August Gaul, Rainer Fetting, Georg Kolbe, Bernhard Heiliger, Anselm Kiefer, Fritz Koenig, Käthe Kollwitz, Ingo Kühl, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Markus Lüpertz, Gerhard Marcks, Henry Moore, Jonathan Meese, Oskar Schlemmer, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Wolf Vostell and Ben Wagin.
Other items made by the foundry included medals made for the Nazi regime, and war memorials for the Soviet Union.
Herman Noack III won the Admiral's Cup in 1983, with his yacht Sabina.
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Große Berliner Kunstausstellung , abbreviated GroBeKa or GBK, was an annual art exhibition that existed from 1893 to 1969 with intermittent breaks. In 1917 and 1918, during World War I, it was not held in Berlin but in Düsseldorf. In 1919 and 1920, it operated under the name Kunstausstellung Berlin. From 1970 to 1995, the Freie Berliner Kunstausstellung was held annually in its place.
