Johannes Pfuhl

Johannes Pfuhl (born February 20, 1846 in Löwenberg , Province of Silesia , † May 5, 1914 in Baden-Baden ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Originally from Silesia , Johannes Pfuhl studied at the Berlin Art Academy from 1861 to 1865 with practical training in the studio of the sculptor Hermann Schievelbein . His first major work was the monument to Freiherr vom Stein in Nassau in 1872 . In this context, Pfuhl received the Prussian Order of the Crown, IV class , from the Kaiser . In 1878 he stayed in Italy to study. Afterwards he worked in his own studio in Charlottenburg. In 1879 he was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle IV. Class , in 1893 the Order of the Crown II. Class and in 1903 the Order of the Red Eagle III. Class with a bow.

His son Ernst Pfuhl (1876–1940) was a well-known archaeologist.

Works

designation	image	Location whereabouts	Kind of material	Dating	Further information
Statue of Karl Reichsfreiherr von und zum Stein		Nassau blown up in 1952	Marble figure	1872, 9.7.	His first monument (designed in 1869); the architecture of the Nassauer Stein monument was designed by the architect Eduard Zais . At the same time he completes the stone monument of his deceased teacher Hermann Schievelbein. The plaster model of the statue from Nassau is erected in the remter of the Wroclaw City Hall as an independent monument and replaced in 1910 by a new marble copy. After 1910 the plaster statue was moved to the Alte Börse on Blücherplatz.
Relief frieze		Groß Lichterfelde destroyed	Relief plaster	1875-1878	Relief frieze of 210 feet (approx. 70 m) in length in the field marshal's hall of the Lichterfelde cadet institution
Eberhard zu Stolberg-Wernigerode		State hat (Silesia) missing	Statue bronze	1879, 2.9.
Friedrich II (Prussia)		Berlin, criminal court destroyed	Statue bronze	1881
Zieten		Berlin, hall of fame lost	Bust bronze	1881 (approx.)
Blucher		Berlin, hall of fame lost	Bust bronze	1883
Perseus frees Andromeda		Poznan today at Wilson Park in Poznan ▼	Bronze genre group	1882	Gold medal at the academy exhibition in Berlin in 1881; Cast at the end of 1885 in the Lauchhammer art foundry, first large cast in phosphor bronze, installation in Posen at the instigation of the emperor in 1890, second copy see 1896
Carl of Prussia		Charlottenburg, palace	Bust ?	1883	Gift from the artist
Johann Jacob Baeyer		Potsdam Geo Research Center (Helmert House)	Bust bronze	1884	made for Baeyer's 90th birthday
Robert Koch			Bust ?	1890
Kaiser Wilhelm I. H. v. Moltke O. v. Bismarck		Görlitz , Kaiser Wilhelm monument destroyed	Bronze equestrian monument	1893, May 18.	Equestrian statue with the assistant figures Bismarck and Moltke
Kaiser Wilhelm I.		Berlin, in the foyer of the Reichstag building destroyed	Statue marble	1894	1.5 times life size
Albrecht von Roon		Görlitz destroyed	Monument bronze	1895, 25.6.
Heinrich Laube		Sprottau ?	Monument bronze	1895, September 18.	Guss Gladenbeck Berlin
Perseus frees Andromeda		Berlin removed in 1958	Bronze genre group	1896	Electroplated bronze from WMF based on the group from 1882; until 1958 as the gable coronation on the Theater des Westens
Jakob Boehme		Görlitz received	Seated statue received	1898, October 31.	Cast Lauchhammer
Friedrich I. (HRR)			Statue ?	1900	Model for a still picture
Goethe		Görlitz melted down in 1942	Bust bronze	1901	laid out as a fountain; Bust 1.54 m high
Viktor Meyer		Heidelberg , originally in the chemical institute of the university, then in the university library, today in the lecture hall building INF 252	Bust marble	1901/02
Kaiser Wilhelm I. Kaiser Friedrich III.		Görlitz, Upper Lusatian Hall of Fame destroyed	Double statue marble	1904	von Pfuhl also bronze eagle and bronze cross; Destroyed by the Polish authorities in 1945
2 (lying) lions		Görlitz, hall of fame preserved	Statue bronze	1904	Gift from the artist; in today's Polish cultural center at the old installation site on the stair stringers
Robert Koch		Berlin, Museum for German History preserved	Bust bronze	1904	sold in plaster by the Gipsformerei Berlin
Theseus saves Hippodameia		Athens (Greece), Plateia Viktorias (Victoria Square) preserved	Bronze genre group	1906/7	Electroplating from WMF; 3.40 m high; in the catalog of the Great Berlin Art Exhibition in 1907 as The Centaur Battle of Theseus
Victory Monument		Schleiz destroyed?	Monument bronze?
Otto von Bismarck			Monument ?	1904

literature

• General Artist Lexicon , Vol. 95, Berlin / Boston 2017, p. 341.
• Peter Bloch, Waldemar Grzimek: The Berlin School of Sculpture in the nineteenth century. Classic Berlin. Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-7861-1767-5 .
• Bloch, Sibylle Einholz , v. Simson (Ed.): Ethos & Pathos. The Berlin School of Sculpture 1786–1914. Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-7861-1598-2 .

Web links

• Sculptor Johannes Pfuhl (Löwenburg / Silesia 1846 - Baden-Baden 1914). (Portrait)
• Nassau: Monument on Nassau Castle Hill, 1872. (Stone Monument Nassau)
• Plaster bust, Robert Koch.
• Jakob Böhme monument.

Individual evidence

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