August Bischoff
August Bischoff (born April 25, 1876 in Hanau , † September 7, 1965 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German sculptor.
Life
Bischoff was the son of the Hanau engraver and die cutter Gustav Bischoff and his wife Amalie Auguste, née. Dietz. After training at the Hanau State Drawing Academy from 1890 to 1896, he studied at the Städelsche Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt am Main from 1901 to 1904 , among others with the sculptor Friedrich Christoph Hausmann . From 1897 he worked as a sculptor in Frankfurt am Main and Hanau with his own studio and produced templates for the Hanau precious metal industry. This enabled him to study trips to Paris , Rome , Berlin and Dresden . He was a member of the Frankfurt Sculptors Association . His attitude during the Nazi era has not yet been dealt with.
Works
- The archer
- Bronze busts of Georg Wolff and Hugo Birkner in the Hanau Historical Museum
- War memorial ( First World War ) in Arnoldshain
- Dr.-Bockenheimer-Brunnen , on Oppenheimer Platz in Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen (fountain and bronze figure on the stone column of the fountain), 1932
- Carl Oppermann's tomb in the main cemetery in Frankfurt
- Tomb of the Carl Gottschalk family in the main cemetery in Frankfurt (1908)
- Tomb of Maria Bischoff (1940)
- Son found home, Frankfurt, Dreikönigskirche
- Colossal figures of trade and work , “Monument to Work” (also popularly known as “Käs-Roller” because of the cogwheels on which the worker leans), Hafenplatz , Hanau, 1924.
- Cast bronze medal for Wilhelm Könneker (1957)
- War memorials (First World War)
- Dorfweil
- Frankfurt, Dreikönigskirche
- Hanau main cemetery
- Michelstadt
- Bad Vilbel Gronau, Cenotaph for those who fell in World War I "Natur-Stein, 1919
literature
- Gerhard Bott : "Modern building" in the city of Hanau 1918–1933. "Demolition crime" and reconstruction after 1945 . In: Hanauer Geschichtsverein (ed.): Gerhard Bott 90 . Cocon, Hanau 2017. ISBN 978-3-86314-361-9 , pp. 85-113.
- Fried Lübbecke : Hanau. City and county. Cologne, 1951, p. 415ff.
- Alexander Bastek (arr.): Of heads and bodies. Frankfurt sculpture from the Städel , Frankfurt a. M .: Städel 2006, ISBN 9783935283113 , pp. 162-164.
Web links
- BUNDESARCHIV - central database Nachlass In: nachlassdatenbank.de . Retrieved on August 30, 2016 (information about August Bischoff's estate in the Frankfurt Institute for City History).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bott, p. 90.
- ↑ Lübbecke.
- ↑ Unless otherwise stated: according to Lübbecke.
- ↑ Oppenheimer Platz is being redeveloped according to the old model in FAZ of October 18, 2012, page 37
- ↑ Bott, p. 90.
- ↑ Bott, p. 90.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bischoff, August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 25, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanau |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 7, 1965 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |