Hermann Noack

The company was founded by Hermann Noack in 1897, with early support from the sculptors August Gaul and Fritz Klimsch.

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.

It moved to a new, larger 10,000 square metres (110,000 sq ft) building in Charlottenburg in 2010, on Am Spreebord [de] 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.