Arnold Künne

Arnold Künne (born March 5, 1866 in Altena , † May 25, 1942 in Berlin-Charlottenburg ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Arnold Künne was the son of the gold and silver goods manufacturer Albrecht Künne (1833–1912) in Altena. The company was founded in 1820 by grandfather Arnold Künne (1796–1872). Arnold Künne received his first training in his father's workshop. At the age of 20 he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich on May 1, 1886 , and attended classes with the well-known sculptor Syrius Eberle . A little later he switched to Albert Wolff at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin, where he finished his studies in 1891.

In the following decades, up to the First World War, numerous works were created in his own studio in Charlottenburg , mainly monuments with statues, busts and reliefs. This career was largely over with the end of the war. Up until his death there was hardly any major work. Arnold Künne died shortly after his studio was destroyed by a bomb attack on Berlin.

Künne seems to have been friends with the writer Peter Hille . When his remains were transferred to an honorary grave in the city of Berlin (St. Matthias Cemetery) in 1938, he unsuccessfully offered to design his grave slab and tombstone. This was refused; Künne even excluded from the memorial ceremony.

Services

Arnold Künne was a talented sculptor from the Berlin School of Sculpture . His work hit the public taste of the German Empire, which earned him many commissions in the context of city beautification.

Works

Person event motive	image	Location whereabouts	Kind of material	Establishment of inauguration	Further information
War memorial 1870/71 Kaiser Wilhelm I.		Berlin-Wilmersdorf destroyed	Bust bronze	March 22, 1895
Otto von Bismarck		Altena destroyed	Statue bronze	September 1, 1895	dismantled in World War II, still present in 1946, melted down
Kaiser Wilhelm I.		Berlin-Buchholz destroyed	Bust bronze	January 18, 1896	Guss Gladenbeck Berlin-Friedrichshagen, melted down in 1942/44
Kaiser Wilhelm I.		Duisburg-Meiderich destroyed	Statue bronze	September 24, 1896	1940/44 melted down
Kaiser Wilhelm I.		Stolberg destroyed	Statue bronze	March 21, 1897	Guss Gladenbeck Berlin-Friedrichshagen, melted down in 1942
Lorenz waiter	new bust	Heiligenstadt renewed	Bust bronze	1897	1897 at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition, melted down in 1940/44, renewed in 1992
War memorial 1870/71 Kaiser Wilhelm I.		Bocholt destroyed	Statue bronze	March 20, 1898	Guss Schäffer & Walcker Berlin, melted down in 1918
War memorial 1864, 1866, 1870/71 Kaiser Wilhelm I.		Get Erkelenz reduced	Statue bronze	May 12, 1898	The statue melted down in 1918
Kaiser Wilhelm I.		Rothenburg / Upper Lusatia destroyed	Bust bronze	July 26, 1898	Guss Gladenbeck Berlin-Friedrichshagen
War memorial 1866, 1870/71		Halle / Westphalia received	Statue copper sheet	August 14, 1898	Copper driving work Hermann Noack Berlin-Friedenau
Kaiser Wilhelm I.		Oberhausen-Osterfeld destroyed	Statue bronze	October 8, 1898	Guss Schäffer & Walcker Berlin, melted down in 1918, remnants removed in 1959
Otto von Bismarck		Dortmund-Marten received	Bust bronze	April 1, 1899	Guss Gladenbeck Berlin-Friedrichshagen
Kaiser Wilhelm I.		Essen-Stoppenberg destroyed	Bust bronze	June 10, 1899	Guss Gladenbeck Berlin-Friedrichshagen, with further busts in the Kaiser Wilhelm tower "Hello", busts melted down in 1940/44
Eduard Pape		Brilon destroyed	Statue bronze	September 13, 1899	Guss Schäffer & Walcker Berlin
Kaiser Wilhelm I.		Konitz (West Prussia) destroyed	Statue bronze	October 18, 1899	Guss Lauchhammer, destroyed in 1920 after West Prussia was ceded to Poland
Fountain figure		Berlin whereabouts unknown	Statue bronze	1899	Cast Lauchhammer, details are missing
Gymnasium director Dr. T.		Cologne-Mülheim, whereabouts unknown	bust	1899	Details are missing
School principal Karl Harrach		Sankt Goarshausen, whereabouts unknown	bust	1899	Details are missing
War memorial 1870/71		Merzig's whereabouts unknown	Statue bronze	1899/1900
Emperor Friedrich III.		Trebnitz (Silesia) destroyed	Statue bronze	October 18, 1900	Guss Schäffer & Walcker Berlin
Kaiser Wilhelm I. Otto von Bismarck Helmuth von Moltke		Essen-Katernberg destroyed	Statue + reliefs bronze	October 21, 1900	with a statue of the emperor and reliefs by Bismarck and Moltke
Otto von Bismarck		Received north	Statue bronze	May 5, 1901	Guss Schäffer & Walcker Berlin
Otto von Bismarck		Obornik (Prov. Posen) destroyed	Statue bronze	May 28, 1901	Guss Gladenbeck Berlin-Friedrichshagen, destroyed in 1918
Otto von Bismarck		Viersen received	Relief bronze	June 23, 1901	Guss Schäffer & Walcker Berlin, relief on the Bismarck Tower (Viersen)
War memorial 1866, 1870/71		Bad Berleburg preserved	Eagle + relief bronze	November 10, 1901	Guss Schäffer & Walcker Berlin
Joseph Kehrein		Montabaur renewed	Bust bronze	1901	Melted down in 1918, renewed in 1953
War memorial 1864, 1866, 1870/71		Alsdorf reduced	Bust bronze	May 4, 1902
Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen		Neuwied get	Statue bronze	July 10, 1902
Friedrich Ludwig Jahn		Hamm whereabouts unknown		August 3, 1902
unknown		Insterburg	Bust bronze	1902	Guss Lauchhammer, details unknown
Otto von Bismarck		Vlotho rest received	Relief bronze	September 10, 1903	Tower demolished in 1939, relief preserved
Hugo Schütz von Holzhausen		Bad Camberg renewed	Bust + relief bronze	1903	1940/44 bust melted down, renewed
Gottfried August Bürger		Molmerswende get	Relief bronze	1904
War memorial 1870/71 Kaiser Wilhelm I.		Teupitz received changed	Relief bronze	July 26, 1904	Dedication extended in 1922, also in 1966, changed again after 1990
Louis Constanz Berger		Witten relief destroyed	Relief copper sheet	August 28, 1904	Relief formerly on the Louis Berger Tower
Emperor Friedrich III.		Soest destroyed?	Bust bronze	1904
Emperor Friedrich III.		Fulda	Statue bronze	May 29, 1905	1940/44 melted down
War memorial 1870/71		Saalfeld / Saale destroyed?	Eagle bronze	July 23, 1905
Leistikow		Waldenburg (Lower Silesia) whereabouts unknown		(after) 1905	Details are missing
Kaiser Wilhelm I. Kaiser Friedrich III.		Hirschberg (Silesia) whereabouts unknown	Statue bronze	(after) 1905	Details are missing
Kaiser Wilhelm I. Kaiser Friedrich III. Kaiser Wilhelm II.		Osterode (East Prussia) destroyed	Reliefs bronze	August 18, 1907	Guss Lauchhammer, remains of architecture used for new monument
Kaiser Wilhelm I. Kaiser Friedrich III.		Nicolai (Upper Silesia) destroyed	Bronze busts	1907	Cast Lauchhammer
Emperor Friedrich III.		Mülheim an der Ruhr destroyed	Statue bronze	July 3, 1908	1940/44 melted down
War memorial 1870/71		Oels (Lower Silesia) destroyed?	Eagle + reliefs bronze	November 21, 1908	Cast Lauchhammer
Friedrich Gottlob Keller		Hainichen renewed	Bust bronze	1908	Guss Lauchhammer, lost bust renewed in 2008
Jubilee fountain photos		Greiffenberg (Silesia) received	Figures + reliefs bronze	1908	Cast Lauchhammer
Edzard zu Innhausen and Knyphausen		Berlin whereabouts unknown	bust	(after) 1908	for the manor house , second copy in Hanover
Edzard zu Innhausen and Knyphausen		Hanover, whereabouts unknown	bust	(after) 1908
Otto von Bismarck		Mülheim an der Ruhr reduced	Bust shell limestone relief sandstone	April 1, 1909	Bust in the Bismarck Tower (Mülheim an der Ruhr) , bust removed after 1945
Ferdinand von Schill		Ohlau (Silesia) destroyed	Bust bronze	May 31, 1909	Cast Lauchhammer
War memorial 1870/71		Kostebrau destroyed, renewed	Eagle bronze	August 29, 1909	Guss Lauchhammer, Adler removed in 1945, renewed in 2004
War memorial 1870/71 Kaiser Wilhelm I. Kaiser Friedrich III.		Hückeswagen reduced	Statue + relief bronze	June 26, 1910	The statue melted down in 1940/44
Friedrich Ludwig Jahn		Minden received	Bust bronze	September 4, 1910	Melted down in 1940/44, redone in sandstone in 1952
Emperor Friedrich III.		Hagen hasp received	Relief copper sheet	September 23, 1910	above the entrance from the Kaiser-Friedrich-Turm (Hagen)
Otto von Bismarck		Ortelsburg destroyed		June 1, 1911
Battle memorial 1761		Vellinghausen received	Relief bronze	1911
Wilhelm Fabry		Hilden received	Bust bronze	1911	Cast Lauchhammer
Kaiser Wilhelm I.		Goldberg (Silesia) destroyed	Statue bronze	1911	Cast Lauchhammer
Emperor Friedrich III.		Hohensalza (Prov. Posen) destroyed	Statue bronze	1911
War memorial 1870/71		Bergisch Neukirchen received	Statue bronze	1911	Cast Lauchhammer
War memorial 1870/71 Kaiser Wilhelm I.		Maltsch (Lower Silesia) destroyed	Eagle + relief bronze	1911	Cast Lauchhammer
Simon-Dach-Brunnen ( Ännchen von Tharau )		Memel (East Prussia) renewed	Statue + relief bronze	1912	Destroyed in 1939, reconstructed in 1989
Empress Auguste Viktoria		Sangerhausen received	Herme marble	June 15, 1913	Buried in 1968, recovered in 1998 and repositioned after restoration
Otto von Bismarck		Driesen (Neumark) destroyed	Relief bronze	October 18, 1913
Friedrich Ludwig Jahn		Mülheim an der Ruhr received	Relief bronze	June 14, 1914
Albert Hoffmann (1846–1924)	( Photo )	Sangerhausen received	Relief bronze	(after) 1924	A. Hoffmann was the founder of the Sangerhausen Rosarium
Otto von Bismarck		Bad Salzelmen, whereabouts unknown
August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben	( Photo )	Corvey received	Relief bronze	(before) 1905
Jubilee fountain		Haynau (Silesia) whereabouts unknown
Simon roof		Königsberg (East Prussia) whereabouts unknown
Anniversary memorial		Penzig (Upper Lusatia) whereabouts unknown
Otto von Bismarck		Sangerhausen, whereabouts unknown	Relief bronze
War memorial 1914–1918		Sprottau (Lower Silesia) destroyed			Regimental memorial of the 1st Lower Silesian. Field Artillery Regiment "von Podbielski" No. 5

Literature / sources

• Künne, Arnold . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 22 : Krügner – Leitch . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1928, p. 69 .
• Peter Bloch, Sibylle Einholz , Jutta v. Simson (Ed.): Ethos & Pathos. The Berlin School of Sculpture 1786–1914. Contributions to the exhibition. Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-7861-1598-2 .
• Inge and Rolf Kießhauer: Bronzes for Berlin. On the trail of monuments and sculptures from Gladenbeck's bronze foundries in Berlin and Friedrichshagen. In: Friedrichshagener Hefte No. 38-40. Berlin-Friedrichshagen 2001.
• Database of the Prussian Monument Institute e. V.

Web links

Commons : Arnold Künne  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Matriculation entry
2. ↑ peter-hille-gesellschaft.de. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on March 30, 2018 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  
3. ↑ haller-zeitraeume.de ( Memento of the original from June 10, 2015 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. (PDF) Report on the unveiling of the Halle war memorial