August Haag (sculptor)

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Cenotaph in Burgholzhausen. The sleeping lion in the center of the complex under the large bronze plaque is Haag's work.

August Haag (born August 16, 1885 in Burgholzhausen , Hesse ; † February 17, 1933 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German sculptor.

Life

Haag began his artistic career at the Frankfurt School of Applied Arts and then went to the Prussian Academy of the Arts in Berlin, the forerunner of today's University of the Arts . There he studied with the sculptor Peter Breuer, among others . Another station was his studies and later assistant to Augusto Varnesi at the Technical University of Darmstadt . Varnesi had a studio in Frankfurt am Main, in which Haag worked until he became self-employed in 1926. He died of cancer in 1933.

Haag's works include both tombs in Frankfurt's main cemetery and works in public spaces, for example the bronze figure Boy with Water-Spouting Fish from 1933 in the Frankfurt Palm Garden or the Snow White monument in the Taunusanlage in Frankfurt am Main from 1930.

Works

  • Boy with water-spouting fish, 1933 (Frankfurt a. M., Palmengarten)
  • Fountain in the central hall of the show houses in the rose garden (Frankfurt a. M.)
  • Snow White Memorial, 1929 (Frankfurt a. M., Taunusanlage)
  • Wilhelm Steinhausen tomb , 1924 (Frankfurt a. M., main cemetery)
  • The homecoming of the prodigal son, 1927 (Frankfurt a. M., main cemetery)
  • Sarcophagus, 1924 (based on a Hössbacher design) (Frankfurt a. M., main cemetery)
  • Collaboration on the Golden Book of the City of Frankfurt

literature

  • Alexander Bastek (arr.): Of heads and bodies. Frankfurt sculpture from the Städel , Frankfurt a. M .: Städel 2006, ISBN 9783935283113 , p. 188.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eva Rowedder: Hochtaunuskreis . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (=  monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Hessen ). Konrad Theiss Verlag, Darmstadt 2013, ISBN 978-3-8062-2905-9 , pp. 103 .
personal data
SURNAME Hague, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Burgholzhausen , Grand Duchy of Hesse
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 1933
Place of death Frankfurt am Main