Hugo Kaufmann (1868–1919) was a 19th/20th-century German sculptor who created many public statues and memorials. He was also a competent artist in oils but is less known in this field.[1]
Life
editHe was born in Scots on 29 June 1868 to a Jewish family from Vogelsbergkreis.[2]
He attended drawing classes in Hanau from in 1884 then attended the trade school in Frankfurt-am-Main, then studied in the Stadel Art School under Gustav Kaupert. From 1888 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under Wilhelm von Rumann.[3]
Staying in Munich he became Professor of Art in 1904. In 1907 he went to Berlin but returned to Munich in 1917. He was a member of the Deutscher Kuenstlerbund.[4]
He died in Munich on 14 May 1919.
Family
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Public works
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- Allegorical figures on Ludwigsbrucke in Munich (1894) destroyed during the Second World War
- Sculpture on insurance office, 10 Cardinal Faulhaber Str. Munich (1895)
- Goethe medal (1899)
- Merkurbrunnen, Munich (1902)
- Monument to the Champions of German Unity, Paulsplatz, Frankfurt-am-Main (1903)
- Figures of Power and Unity, Bavarian State Chancellery (1905)
- Christopher the Strong, on the New Town Hall in Marienplatz, Munich (1908)
- Goldsmith monument, Martin-Luther-Platz, Augsburg (1912)
References
edit- ^ "Hugo Kaufmann | Artnet".
- ^ 00540 Hugo Kaufmann, Matrikelbuch 1884-1920. Volume 3. Academy of Fine Arts Munich, August 6, 2007, accessed on August 11, 2012 .
- ^ Hugo Kaufmann . In: Hans Vollmer (ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . Volume 20 : Merchant Knight . EA sailor, Leipzig 1927, S. 8-9 .
- ^ kuenstlerbund.de: Ordinary members of the Deutscher Künstlerbund since its founding 1903 / Kaufmann, Hugo ( Memento of the original of 4 March 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on September 7, 2015) i Josef Hugo Biller, Hans-Peter Rasp: Munich
- ^ Biller / Rasp: Munich art and culture
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