Benedict King
Benedict King (* 11 April 1842 in Gebrazhofen -Merazhofen, Allgaeu , † 1906 in Munich ) was a German sculptor , carver, caster and modeller .
Life
Benedikt König (also Benedikt von König in new literature) was a well-known German sculptor of the 19th century. He ran large studios in Darmstadt, Munich and Berlin. He created significant sculptures and monuments, especially in the three cities mentioned. Thanks to his friendship with Anton Braith and Christian Mali, there are now eighty plaster and marble busts in the possession of the Braith Mali Museum in Biberach an der Riss .
In 1875 a biography of the artist, written by August Wintterlin , appeared in the Stuttgart illustrated weekly Über Land und Meer . König belonged to the lodge Zu den drei Cedern , a Stuttgart Masonic lodge . At his funeral in Stuttgart on January 6, 1907, the master from the chair of the Petzendorfer Lodge presented a biographical necrology .
In contemporary literature he is also referred to as “professor”, although the directory of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich lists him neither as a student nor as a professor. The nobility predicate “von” is consistently not used in contemporary, but only in today's sources.
The sculptor Ludwig Habich (1872–1949) was König's student in Darmstadt between 1879 and 1886.
plant
- Monument to Franz von Kobell south of the Maximilianeum in Munich
- Monument by August Metz in front of the Johanneskirche in Darmstadt (destroyed 1939)
- 1874 relief portrait of Emperor Friedrich III. (1831–1888) in the Berlin City Palace (destroyed 1945)
- Marble heads of the children of the grand ducal family of Hessen-Darmstadt
Exhibitions
- 2008 Space, Form and Time - 100 Years of Sculpture in Darmstadt 1880–1980. Darmstadt Art Archive
literature
- King, Benedict . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 21 : Knip – Kruger . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 146 .
- Michael Grus: Art Archive Darmstadt - The class reunion. In: Frankfurter Rundschau April 14, 2009 ( fr.de ).
Web links
- Website 100 years of the Biberacher Museum, with Benedikt König frequently mentioned
- King, Benedict Leo. Hessian biography. (As of June 22, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lecture at the conference “Collecting and Preserving. Basis for dealing with objects ”of the scientific volunteers on July 12, 2006 in the Landesmuseum Stuttgart ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF).
- ↑ Internet site of the German Central Library, Leipzig
- ↑ website of ADBK, Munich
- ↑ Free German Hochstift (ed.): Reports . tape 11 . Frankfurt am Main 1888, p. 87 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ^ Peter Weyrauch: The sculptor Ludwig Habich (1872-1949) . Hessian Historical Commission, Darmstadt 1990, ISBN 3-88443-166-8 , p. 11 u. 13 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ Inventory list from 1935 on berliner-stadtschloss.de.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | King, Benedict |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | König, Benedik von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor, picture carver, caster and modeller |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 11, 1842 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gebrazhofen |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1906 |
| Place of death | Munich |