Alexander Höfer

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Alexander Höfer (born January 16, 1877 in Keuert , † January 3, 1937 in Dresden ) was a German sculptor and medalist .

Life

Plastic pig driver , 1910

Höfer grew up as a half-orphan when his father had a fatal accident in the autumn of 1877. He attended school in Dresden, was a student at the Dresden School of Applied Arts from 1891 and began a five-year sculpture apprenticeship in 1892. He was then employed by Bernhard Kurt Roch , Emil Schäfer and, from 1898, also by Ernst Hottenroth as an employee. From 1903 Höfer was a master student of Professors Heinrich Epler and Robert Diez at the Dresden Art Academy , where he studied until 1909. In 1907/08 Höfer received the Great Gold Medal of the Art Academy for his wrestling group.

From 1908 Höfer worked independently in Dresden. In addition to many small sculptures, he also created large portraits and monuments. In 1909 he co-founded the Dresden artists ' association and was a member of the artists' association Die Zunft . In 1912 his publications Die Plastik and Die Kunst appeared . From 1916 to 1918 Höfer took part in the First World War as an infantry soldier . In 1924 and 1936 he worked in the Zwingerbauhütte and extensively restored the Dresden Zwinger under the direction of Hubert Georg Ermisch . Among other things, he made new figures for the nymph bath .

In 1925 Höfer became a lecturer at the Technical University of Dresden with a teaching position for architectural sculpture. From 1933 until his death in 1937 he was honorary professor for architectural sculpture at the Technical University of Dresden. Most recently he lived in the Bürgerwiese 21 building. In November 1933, he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler .

Höfer married Clara Agnes born in 1909. Abeking (born October 11, 1885 in Berlin). The marriage was divorced on June 6, 1922. Her sons were Rolf Erasmus Höfer (* March 21, 1910; † February 9, 1992), who was among other things a painter and graphic artist, and Peter Frank Höfer (* May 25, 1912; † December 28, 1975), who was among other things as an actor and became a director. In his second marriage, Höfer was married to Elisabet Kelling from 1935, from whom the third son Alfred Höfer (* 1936) was born.

plant

Fountain grape eater in Bad Gottleuba
  • Altar in the St. Trinitatiskirche Wiesa (thermal bath Wiesenbad)
    1904: Altar, pulpit and baptismal font of the Trinity Church in Wiesa near Annaberg
  • 1907: Bronze relief of the Entombment of Christ in the Dresden-Plauen cemetery
  • 1907: Wrestling group (private property, Dresden)
  • 1910: Pulpit, baptismal font and a large Golgotha ​​group above the altar of St. John's Church in Crimmitschau
  • 1910: Figure of the pig driver in front of the cattle yard and slaughterhouse in Dresden (designed as a fountain, but never put into operation)
  • 1910: four groups of figures of children playing in bronze for the secondary school for girls on Zinzendorfstrasse in Dresden (destroyed by the war)
  • 1911: Roland sandstone figure and other sculptures for the New Town Hall in Chemnitz
  • 1912: Market fountain with a bronze figure of a butcher in Dohna
  • 1913: four large pillar figures made of sandstone on the facade of the women's fashion department store Kersten & Tuteur in Berlin, Leipziger Straße 36 (figures destroyed around 1945; two of them reconstructed in 2002)
  • 1915: Bacchus Fountain in Bad Gottleuba
  • 1917: War memorial in the Robermont cemetery near Lüttich (together with the Dresden architect Emil Högg )
  • 1922: Ornamental fountain grape eater in Bad Gottleuba
  • 1922: Colossal figure of a seated warrior at the war memorial for the soldiers of Infantry Regiment No. 105 in Werdau who fell in World War I.
  • 1931: Christ and a tired pilgrim at the Böhme tomb in the Radebeul-Ost cemetery
  • 1931–1932: Altar of the Trinity Church in Sondershausen

literature

  • Höfer, Alexander . In: Ernst-Günter Knüppel: Robert Diez. Sculpture between Romanticism and Art Nouveau . Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2009, pp. 175–176.
  • Höfer, Alexander. In: Dorit Petschel : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 3: The professors of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin , Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02503-8 , p. 374.

Web links

Commons : Alexander Höfer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Alexander Höfer. Artist. German Society for Medal Art, accessed on November 17, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Archive of the Dresden University of Fine Arts
  3. ↑ crimmitschau.de
personal data
SURNAME Höfer, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and medalist
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Chewing
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 1937
Place of death Dresden