Albert Küppers

Albert Küppers 1870, picture by Rudolf Schick

Albert Hermann Küppers (born February 22, 1842 in Coesfeld , † October 11, 1929 in Bonn ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Albert Küppers was the son of the pastry chef Heinrich Küppers and his wife Klara Edelbrock in Coesfeld. After a short stay in Holland, he began his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in 1859 in the class of antiquities. He became a student of Johann von Halbig and Max von Widnmann . After receiving a scholarship, he continued his studies in 1863 at the Berlin Art Academy (a predecessor of the Academy of Arts ) and received a number of prizes. Küppers worked in the studios of Hugo Hagen and Albert Wolff . In 1866 he went to London and studied there for one year each with John Henry Foley and Thomas Woolner. He moved to Bonn in 1868. In 1869 he received the great state award of the Berlin Academy for his work Resurrection of Lazarus . After a stay in Rome (in the German sculptor colony) he finally settled in Bonn in 1876. In 1877 he became an academic drawing teacher at the University of Bonn , in 1878 he was permanently employed, later an art professor and in 1922 an academic honorary citizen of the university. He lived and worked in a building right next to the so-called gardener's house on Poppelsdorfer Weiher. The brick building has since been demolished. Küppers is buried in the Poppelsdorf cemetery in Bonn. Many of his works can be found in the Old Cemetery in Bonn . His son Otto Küppers (1888–1986) was a landscape painter and restorer in Bonn.

Works

Sculptures and sculptures in the old cemetery in Bonn

Bonn: Nöggerath grave figure

• Marble bust (1869) for the mathematician and physicist Julius Plücker
• War memorial 1870/71, in collaboration with the Berlin architect Arnold Hartmann (unveiled on Sedanag 1877)
• Marble medallion for the university music director Heinrich Carl Breidenstein (1796–1876)
• Christ medallion for Lieutenant Dietrich von der Lippe (1798–1876)
• Marble medallion for the Protestant theologian Albrecht Wolters (1822–1878)
• Seat sculpture (1881) for the mineralogist, geologist and Prussian mining captain Johann Jacob Nöggerath
• Marble medallion (1881) for the pharmacist Karl Friedrich Mohr
• Bronze bust (1883) for the surgeon Carl David Wilhelm Busch (1826–1881)
• Marble medallion (1883) for the historian Carl von Noorden
• Marble medallion (1884) for the ancient historian Arnold Schäfer
• Marble medallion for Annie Matilde Ebbinghaus (1852–1885)
• Marble medallion (1886) for the lawyer Rudolf Klostermann
• Bronze medallion (1887) for the medical councilor Franz Richarz (1812–1887)
• Marble medallion (1888) for the mineralogist and geologist Gerhard vom Rath
• Marble medallion (1889) for the Protestant theologian Theodor Christlieb
• Bronze medallion (1889) for the physician Hugo Rühle
• Bronze medallion for the mining professor Ernst Heinrich von Dechen
• Bronze medallion (1895) for the city councilor of Bonn Peter Innocenz Eller (1818–1893)
• Bronze medallion (1895) for the teacher JB Giesen (1828–1893)
• Marble relief for the curator of the University of Bonn Otto Gandtner (1822–1895)
• Bronze medallion (1897) for grammar school teacher Peter Leber (1829–1895)
• Tomb (1897) for the Old Catholic theologian Joseph Hubert Reinkens
• Bronze medallion (1897) for the physician Carl Jacob Velten (1819–1896)
• Bronze relief (1907) for the physician and sports pioneer Ferdinand August Schmidt (1852–1929)
• Tomb (1910) for the art collector Carl Roettgen (1837–1909)
• Bronze relief (1912) for the Protestant theologian Friedrich E. Sieffert (1843–1911)
• Marble relief (1912) for the lawyer Carl Caspar Wassermeyer (1834–1912)

Sculptures and sculptures on the Poppelsdorfer Friedhof Bonn

• Bronze medallion (1897) for the chemist Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz
• Bronze medallion (1904) for the geologist August Huyssen (1824–1903)
• Bronze medallion (1909) for the lawyer Matthias Klein (1845–1909)
• Bronze relief (1910) for the newspaper publisher Hermann Neusser (1839–1909)
• Bronze relief (1911) for the industrialist Franz Burgers (1845–1911)
• Bronze relief (1912) for the ancient historian Heinrich Nissen

Other works

Bonn: Karl Simrock monument in the courtyard garden

• Relief Elisha prophesies the kings
• Figure group Raising Lazarus
• Relief The sons of Jacob bring Joseph's bloody coat to their father
• Relief Oedipus with his daughters on Colonus
• Marble statue of Saint Helena
• Four portrait medallions on the northwest wing of the administration building of the Saarbrücken Mining Directorate
• Marble bust (1885) of the lawyer Johann August Roderich von Stintzig (1825–1883)
• Marble bust (1897) of the physician Carl Velten (1819–1896)
• Fountain and monument (1898) for the industrialist Friedrich Grillo in Gelsenkirchen-Schalke (dismantled)
• Monument to Karl Joseph Simrock (1900–1903)
• Marble bust (1903) of the surgeon Carl David Wilhelm Busch (1826–1881)
• Bronze bust (1904) for the dermatologist Joseph Doutrelepont
• Bronze bust (1907) for the agricultural scientist Theodor von der Goltz
• Bronze plaque (1910) for the historian Moriz Ritter , University of Bonn
• Marble medallion (1911) for Mathilde and Otto Wesendonck (the donors of the collection named after them) in the Rheinisches Landesmuseum
• Bronze bust (1912) of the Germanist Wilhelm Wilmanns
• A replica of a marble bust (1921) by the composer Ludwig van Beethoven
• Marble bust of the museum director Felix Hettner (1851–1902)

literature

• Biographical Artist Lexicon , Leipzig 1882
• Ulrike Helbig: Albert Herrmann Küppers (1842–1929), sculptor and academic drawing teacher at the University of Bonn , master's thesis, Bonn 1986
• Peter Bloch, Sibylle Einholz , Jutta von Simson (eds.): Ethos and Pathos, the Berlin Sculpture School 1786–1914 , Berlin 1990
• Josef Niesen : Bonn Personal Lexicon. 3rd, improved and enlarged edition. Bouvier, Bonn 2011, ISBN 978-3-416-03352-7 .

Web links

Commons : Albert Küppers  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

References and comments

1. ↑ On Küppers grave stone (Poppelsdorfer Friedhof Bonn) is 1842 as year of birth and when matriculating in Munich in 1859 Küppers indicated his age as 17.
2. ↑ His brother Igna (t) z Küppers was a seminar leader in Siegburg, later a school councilor in Berlin and one of the co-founders of the Old Catholic Church in Germany (advice from Roswitha Schubert from Wunstorf-Steinhude, a great-grandniece of the sculptor)
3. ↑ Dublin-born sculptor (1818–1874), who designed the O'Connell memorial in Dublin
4. ↑ English sculptor and poet (1825-1892)
5. ↑ Bonner General-Anzeiger , August 27, 1968
6. ^ Announcement from the Michael Zeller auction house (Lindau): "Otto Küppers, geb. 1888 in Bonn, worked there and around 1930 still mentioned, studied 1907–1912 at the Düsseldorf Academy, 1913–1914 at the Berlin Academy. ”He made a copy of a portrait that Rudolf Schick (* 8 August 1840 in Berlin; † February 26, 1887 ibid) painted. It shows Albert Küppers at the age of 28. The copy is in private hands.
7. ↑ Neusser is one of the founders of the Beethoven House Association
8. ^ Heinrich Böcking, Ernst Heinrich von Dechen, Otto Krug von Nidda and Leopold Sello
9. ↑ Erected by Martin Gropius and Heino Schmieden 1877–1880
10. ↑ in the Bonn University Library
11. ↑ not to be confused with the linguist of the same name; Art collection of the Berlin Charité
12. ↑ It was unveiled on July 15, 1903 and stood in the Bonn court garden until 1940 ; today the remains are in the Bonn building yard.
13. ^ Art collection of the Berlin Charité
14. ↑ Source: German Documentation Center for Art History - Photo Archive Photo Marburg
15. ↑ in the Beethoven House in Bonn
16. ↑ in the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier