Anton Karl Rumpf

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Anton Karl Rumpf (born March 24, 1838 in Frankfurt am Main ; † May 9, 1911 in Frankfurt am Main) was a sculptor from Frankfurt .

family

Philipp Reis Monument in Gelnhausen

The Rumpf family has been Protestant since the Reformation. The ancestors include a number of pastors in Upper Hesse, especially in the Butzbach area , where the main building can be traced back to 1480. His grandfather Ludwig Daniel Philipp Rumpf (1762–1845) was the eldest son of the second pastor Johann Georg Friedrich Rumpf (1729–1774) in Oberroßbach. His grandfather was a master upholsterer and furniture maker and a close collaborator of Nicolas Alexandre Salins de Montfort . This architect from France had already worked for high-ranking secular and ecclesiastical clients in his home country and had come to Frankfurt am Main in the course of the French Revolution and created some of the classicist buildings here in the 1790s and 1800s . His father Heinrich Friedrich Rumpf also worked under Nicolas Alexandre Salins de Montfort, whereby his father trained first in Fulda under Clemens Wenzeslaus Coudray , then from 1815 to 1817 - probably on the recommendation of his teacher - at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris . In 1817, his father Heinrich Friedrich Rumpf began working as an architect in Frankfurt am Main, which fell into the era of the purist, classicist city architect Johann Friedrich Christian Hess . On March 16, 1831, his father married Elisabeth Vogel (* November 18, 1808, † January 5, 1879), whose marriage resulted in eight children. His eldest brother Ludwig Daniel Philipp (1831–59) also became an architect, but died at the age of 28 in Rome. The second brother Ernst Friedrich Felix Rumpf (* 1833), Dr. jur. was President of the District Court and became President of the Senate at the Higher Regional Court of Kassel. Anton Karl Rumpf was the third son and became a sculptor in Frankfurt. Anton Karl Rumpf was married to Marie Viktoire Wirsing. Her son Johann Hermann Rumpf (1875–1942), Dr. jur. became a lawyer and was a city councilor in Frankfurt am Main.

Anton Karl Rumpf-Kaiser Karl der Große-Neues Rathaus Ffm Südbau Limpurergasse

education

He began his training as a sculptor at the Städelschen Kunstinstitut Frankfurt am Main under Johann Nepomuk Zwerger (1796–1868), then moved to Nuremberg in 1859 to the first art foundry founded by Jacob Daniel Burgschmiet in 1829 (today the Lenz art foundry ). A year later he worked under Ferdinand von Miller at the royal ore foundry in Munich and in the studio of the sculptor Max von Widnmann . He owes his main education to his studies with the sculptor Johannes Schilling at the Dresden Art Academy . He stayed in Italy from 1866 to 1868, in 1871 to take over the orphaned studio of Eduard Schmidt von der Launitz (1797-1869), a deceased sculptor, art historian and teacher at the Städel Art Institute and creator of the Gutenberg monument in Frankfurt am Main .

Activities and works

From 1884 to 1885 and 1890–91 he was chairman of the Frankfurter Künstlergesellschaft and created a. a. Grave sculptures in Frankfurt am Main and Vienna , as well as numerous sculptures on various public buildings mainly in Frankfurt am Main, such as the four ages on the side of the three Parzen in the northern gable field at the opera house or the Merkur sculpture on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. For the Frankfurt main train station he created sculptures such as the group "pleasure trip" in the platform hall of the main train station, as well as several Old Testament figures for the new tower of the Frankfurt Cathedral. He also created a large number of memorial portraits of contemporaries from the Frankfurt society of that time as well as historical personalities of Frankfurt city history, including several times Goethe and Philipp Jakob Spener .

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personal data
SURNAME Rumpf, Anton Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rumpf, Anton Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1911
Place of death Frankfurt am Main