Arnold Hermann Lossow

Arnold Hermann Lossow, friendship picture of an unknown German-Roman painter, 1826 Focke-Museum Bremen

Arnold Hermann Lossow (born October 24, 1805 in Bremen ; † February 3, 1874 in Munich ) was a German sculptor .

biography

Lossow was the son of a master tailor. He began his artistic training at the age of 15 in the studio of the sculptor Heinrich Freese, whom he supported, among other things, in his work on the reliefs of the Ostertorwache . In 1820 he went to Munich, where he learned from Ernst Mayer . In 1827 Lossow finished his training and went to Rome for three years to study the ancient masters before he settled in Munich in 1831 as a freelance artist. The Bremen Senate supported him with a grant of 75 thalers for three years.

Lossow also married in Munich and had three sons who continued the family's artistic tradition: the history painter Carl Lossow , the animal painter Friedrich Lossow and the genre painter Heinrich Lossow .

Before he left for Rome, Lossow had made the acquaintance of his colleague Ludwig Schwanthaler and after his return in 1834 he became his assistant. In Schwanthaler's workshop, eleven statues based on external models were created for the west and east facades of the Glyptothek , including Antonio Canova (after Max von Widnmann ), John Gibson and Ludwig Schwanthaler (after Friedrich Brugger ) and Bertel Thorvaldsen (after Thorvaldsen). Lossow also supplied some marble busts for the Walhalla near Regensburg and the Hall of Fame in Munich. In Bremen he created several grave monuments, the most famous of which was created in 1847 for the family of the shipbuilder and ship owner Johann Lange . The white marble tomb has been preserved in the cemetery in Bremen-Vegesack ( Lindenstrasse ) and was restored in 2008. In 1843 Lossow became an honorary member of the art association in Bremen . In 1845 and 1852 he also exhibited in the Kunsthalle Bremen .

The sculptor Arnold Hermann Lossow died on February 3, 1874 in Munich at the age of 68.

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
• Historical society of the artists' association (ed.): Bremische Biographie des 19. Century . Winter, Bremen 1912, reprint: Schünemann, Bremen 1976.
• Hyacinth Holland :  Lossow, Arnold Hermann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, pp. 221-223.
• Britta-R. Schwahn: The Glyptothek in Munich - building history and iconology . Herbert Utz Verlag: Munich 1984, ISBN 3-831660832

Web links

Commons : Arnold Hermann Lossow  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Johann Lange's tomb in the Vegesack cemetery by AH Lossow, 1847