After training as a sculptor, Enseling studied from 1905 to 1910 with the sculptor
Rudolf Bosselt, the painter and designer
Peter Behrens and the architect
Wilhelm Kreis at the
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and from 1910 to 1912 at the
Académie Colarossi in Paris with
Aristide Maillol. From 1922, he taught at what would later become the Folkwang School in Essen and from 1938 to 1952 he was professor at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. Among his students were
Joseph Beuys and
Hermann Blumenthal. Enseling's work, which was often commissioned, consists of industrial and mining monuments as well as architectural sculptures, which were often created in collaboration with locally and regionally known architects such as
Edmund Körner or
Georg Metzendorf. In Essen, Enseling produced the putti (1910) on the Moltkebrücke and two allegorical giants (1911) in the immediate vicinity at the main entrance of the building trade school (today's Robert Schmidt vocational college) in the Moltkeviertel and the treasure trove fountain (1911/1912) on the Market place of the Margarethenhöhe. He also created portraits of personalities from the 1920s and 1930s and various memorials. One of them was the memorial erected on the market square in Essen-Frintrop in 1927 to commemorate those who died in the first World War, which was destroyed in a bomb attack on December 31, 1944. ==Literature==