Arthur Bock

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Diana with dogs in Hamburg
Arthur Bocks building jewelry on the landing stage in St. Pauli
“Becoming his offense”, Max Albrecht family grave,
Ohlsdorf cemetery

Arthur Bock (born May 12, 1875 in Leipzig , † October 26, 1957 in Ettlingen ) was a German sculptor . His brother was the Eisenach painter Hanns Bock .

Life

Arthur Bock began his studies at the Royal Academy of Art and Applied Arts in Leipzig and continued from 1894 to 1897 at the Dresden School of Applied Arts . He then studied at the Berlin Art Academy until 1900 . From 1903 Bock worked as a lecturer for art in Hamburg . He also taught at the private painting school of the painter and craftswoman Gerda Koppel . Arthur Bock was a member of the Hamburg Artists' Association from 1832 and belonged to the circle of friends of Oscar Troplowitz , a Hamburg pharmaceutical entrepreneur and art patron.

From 1905, joint exhibitions in Hamburg, Berlin, Munich and Leipzig showed works by Bock. In Hamburg he created acclaimed works in the public domain, so in 1909 the " allegory of the Winds" at the St. Pauli Piers , 1911, the "Diana with dogs" in the Hamburg city park , 1912, the " Justice " on the new building for the Hamburg Court and the Allegorical sculptures (only partially available) for the fountain at the Hamburg Justice Forum . In 1914 Arthur Bock was awarded the title of Professor by the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha .

He produced over 50 works for the Ohlsdorf cemetery; mostly his topic was “becoming, being, passing away”. In 1925 he created the memorial for the fallen soldiers of the First World War for the main cemetery in Altona. There are also tombs and memorials of Arthur Bock in other cemeteries, such as the tomb of the poet Otto Ernst from 1926 in the cemetery in Groß-Flottbek or the memorial in the Mennonite cemetery in Hamburg-Altona in 1937 . Arthur Bock's tombs can also be found in cemeteries in Eisenach , Kassel , Bad Oldesloe , Wedel , in Cologne's Melaten cemetery , in the south cemetery in Kiel or in the Bois-de-Vaux cemetery in Lausanne .

Arthur Bock's grave in Eisenach

Thanks to his monumental, heroic style, Bock also received commissions during the National Socialist era . He made a bronze bust of the NSDAP functionary Wilhelm Gustloff, who was killed in an assassination attempt in 1936 and declared a martyr . The house with Bock's studio was destroyed in 1943, so neither a catalog raisonné nor an archive have survived. The works are not always signed or dated. Bock died on October 26, 1957 in Ettlingen , his body was transferred to Eisenach on November 22, 1957 and buried in the New Cemetery.

Other works (selection)

  • 1905: Sculpture groups “Whispering Waves” and “Stormy Waves” at the Elbhof office building in Hamburg-Neustadt / Hafenrand
  • 1913: "Camel riders" on the pillars of the Schaartor Bridge in Hamburg (near the Elbhof) (melted down for war purposes in 1918)
The two unusual bronze sculptures to symbolize the relationship between Hamburg and the Orient depicted seated dromedaries with luggage and a Bedouin (?) Seated with a rifle or an Arab woman with a child.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hamburger Nachrichten , evening edition of July 23, 1914
  2. ↑ List of tombs, some with historical images, from Barbara Leisner, Heiko KL Schulze, Ellen Thormann: The Hamburg main cemetery Ohlsdorf. History and tombs. Verlag Hans Christians, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-7672-1060-6 , page 189.
  3. ↑ Brief portrait on www.fof-ohlsdorf.de
  4. ↑ Christine Behrens: The sculptor Arthur Bock (1875–1957) in Hamburg. In: Ohlsdorf, Zeitschrift für Trauerkultur , No. 99, IV, 2007 , accessed on August 29, 2015
  5. ↑ Information from the Eisenach cemetery administration
  6. ↑ Hans Harbeck : Hamburg as it was. Droste, Düsseldorf 1966, Figures 13–16.
  7. ↑ Bock, Arthur . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p. 242 . / List of monuments of the city of Dortmund

Remarks

  1. ↑ The sculptures are missing from some of the tombs: Rodatz / Röder , Sauerberg , Thomsen / Wiebe , Ahlff (partly stolen, partly stored), the Scholtz tomb was completely relocated to Nienstedten.

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personal data
SURNAME Buck, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 1957
Place of death Ettlingen