Friedrich Christoph Hausmann

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Friedrich Christoph Hausmann (born June 23, 1860 in Vienna , † October 23, 1936 in Bad Soden ) was an Austrian sculptor .

Life

Clara Schumann (1896) - on the pedestal the entrance motif to Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto op. 54 by Friedrich Christoph Hausmann

Hausmann studied from 1879 to 1882 at the Vienna Academy a . a. with Professor Edmund von Hellmer (1851–1935). In 1888 he used his scholarships for stays in Asia Minor and Italy. In 1891 he moved to Frankfurt am Main and directed the modeling class at the School of Applied Arts. From 1892 to 1905 he headed the Städelschule's sculpture school . He mainly created decorative sculptures and portrait sculptures, for example by Clara Schumann , Leopold Sonnemann and Johann Christian Senckenberg . Between 1894 and 1907 his works were often shown at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition. He also designed the fairy tale fountain next to the theater and the Gans mausoleum in Frankfurt's main cemetery . From 1904 he lived in Bad Soden am Taunus, where he also died and is buried.

Awards

Hausmann has received grants and awards including:

  • He received the Grillparzer-Fröhlich grant for the sculpture group Achilles and Penthesilea
  • In 1888 he received the Michel Beersehen Prize from the Berlin Academy for his relief battle of the Amazon .

Works (selection)

  • 1894: Tomb for Albrecht Ohly in the old cemetery in Darmstadt.
  • Fairy tale fountain in Frankfurt am Main, 1910, Art Nouveau , made of Tyrolean marble
  • Philipp Reis Monument , Jugendstildenkmal zu Philipp Reis , 1919 on the Eschenheim facility
  • Marble bust of Senckenberg (1899)
  • Bust of Clara Schumann - 1896 in the Robert Schumann House in Zwickau (made in plaster); Bronze cast in Dr. Hoch's Conservatory Frankfurt / M., Replica in the Brahmshaus Baden-Baden.
  • Mausoleum of the Friedrich Ludwig von Gans family (Frankfurt main cemetery), 1909
  • Two of the four emperor statues (Charles IV and Maximillian II) on the Roman facade above the balcony there

  • 1910 fairytale fountain in Frankfurt am Main

  • 1909 Hausmann designed the mausoleum for Friedrich Ludwig von Gans, main cemetery

  • Kaiserbecher (modeling by Hausmann)

  • Imperial statue on the Roman facade of Emperor Karl IV von Hausmann

  • 1919 Memorial for Philipp Reis von Hausmann at the Eschenheimer Anlage, Ffm.

literature

  • Elke Schlagehan: The sculptor Friedrich Christoph Hausmann [1860-1936]: Life and work in Frankfurt , 1995

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Hausmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2014 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lonbersyl.com
  2. ↑ http://www.frankfurter-hauptfriedhof.de/mausgans01.htm
  3. ↑ Listed and worth preserving graves in Bad Soden and in Neuenhain . In: Historischer Verein Bad Soden, Michael Gaumnitz (Hrsg.): Writings on Bad Soden history . tape 26 . BoD - Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2009, ISBN 978-3-8391-5546-2 , p. 33 ff . (132 p., Limited preview in Google Book search).
  4. ↑ http://www.bildindex.de/kue11003337.html#%7Chome
  5. ↑ http://www.kunst-im-oefflichen-raum-frankfurt.de/de/page117.html?id=129
  6. ↑ http://www.senckenbergische-stiftung.de/84-Johann+Christian+Senckenberg.html
personal data
SURNAME Hausmann, Friedrich Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 1936
Place of death bad Soden