Bruno Kruse

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Bruno Friedrich Emil Kruse (born June 1, 1855 in Hamburg ; † December 12, 1934 in Berlin ) was a German sculptor and medalist .

Life

Bug eagle the Emperor

From 1876 to 1884 Bruno Kruse studied at the Dresden Art Academy and was a student of Johannes Schilling , from 1879 a master class student . He worked on the orders of his professor in his studio in Dresden's Eliasstraße 1, especially on the monumental Niederwald monument for Rüdesheim . Kruse lived at Blumenstrasse 38 until 1885. From 1878 he participated in the Dresden art exhibitions with his specially created exhibits, in 1878 a female bust , in 1879 a bronzed valkyrie, leading the warrior into battle . This work was set up at the Alster facilities in Hamburg-Uhlenhorst in 1884 and replaced by a bronze cast in 1910. In 1885 he settled in Berlin as a freelancer and ran his own studio. In the years from 1891 to 1923 he was employed as a teacher at the crafts school. In addition to his small sculptures and marble busts, he created bronze statues and devoted himself to the art of medalists. It was mainly based on Italian patterns and made the cast medal on a par with the popular embossed medal. Showing all kinds of plaques and medals from princes, scholars, the military and the emperor, all bore his artistic signature. He designed the Bugzier, an oversized eagle, for the German luxury steamer Imperator .

Works (selection

  • 1878: Female bust, plaster, Dresden art exhibition.
  • 1879: Valkyrie, leading the warrior into battle, plaster, Dresden art exhibition
  • 1880: Valkyrie, towering the fallen hero, plaster, Dresden art exhibition
  • 1888: Marble portrait bust of Dr. Hermann Anthony C. Weber , Kaisersaal in Hamburg City Hall
  • 1888: Marble portrait bust of Gustav Christian Schwabe , Hamburg Kaisersaal in the town hall
  • 1888: Marble portrait bust of Mayor Petersen , Kaisersaal in Hamburg City Hall
  • 1889: Marble bust of Moltke, Schlieffens and Count Waldersee in the General Staff building in Berlin,
  • 1890: Figure Bacchante made of marble at the Hamburger Kunsthalle
  • 1890: Portrait statue of Denver made of marble Kunsthalle Hamburg.
  • 1892–1893: Bronze figures of St. Georg and Emperor Lothar von Sachsen at Hamburg City Hall
  • 1902: Heinrich Rosenberg monument in Hanover
  • 1915: Plaque With God for Emperor and Empire . Depicting the naked Hercules fighting the Lernaean Hydra. Single-sided cast iron. Münzkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, object number 18234648
  • Marble bust of Kaiser Wilhelm I .
  • Marble bust of Otto von Bismarck

further Bismarck monuments:

  • 1889: Bismarck bust for the Bismarck tower in Cottbus, lost after 1945. , 24 August 2017 New casting of a bust from 1889 in Lauchhammer .
  • 1895: Bismarck memorial stone with large medallion in Dresden-Rochwitz .
  • 1896: Bismarck monument, base with a large bust, Großenhain , Meißner Straße. Demolished in 1945.
  • 1895: Medallion, Gettorf in Schleswig-Holstein, Eichstrasse corner of the Spritzengang.
  • 1885: Base with bust, Greiz Heinrichstrasse, 1942 metal donation .
  • 1897–1898: Statues Hamburg Laeiszhof , An der Trostbrücke 1.
  • 1895: Medallion with memorial stone, Namslau in Silesia , now Namysłów . Probably destroyed in 1945.
  • 1895: Medallion on the observation tower in Stade . Canceled in 1960.
  • 1906: Base with a large bust, Weida . Dismantled and stored in 1942, whereabouts unknown.

In Hamburg, Kruse created the family tombs Neidlinger (1920/21) and Pulvermann (1919) in the Ohlsdorf cemetery ; in collaboration with the architects Martin Haller and Hermann Geissler, he designed the interior of the Ohlendorff mausoleum (1899/1900), and the spacious one Family complex Laeiz / Canel / Hanssen / Meerwein he created the portrait relief (Canel) and the sculpture group Angels with Child (Hanssen) in 1901 .

literature

  • Anne Steinmeister: In the World Garden in Hamburg: the international Hamburg horticultural exhibitions of the 19th century; a contribution to the development of the garden cultural exhibition and congress system in Germany. AVM-Ed., Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-95477-022-9 , pp. 45ff.
  • M. Heidemann: Medal art in Germany from 1895 to 1914. In: Die Kunstmedaille in Deutschland, 8 (1998) p. 503.
  • Bärbel Stephan: Saxon Sculpture - Johannes Schilling 1828–1910. Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin, ISBN 3-345-00494-1 . Pp. 61, 75.
  • Sieglinde Seele: Lexicon of Bismarck Monuments: towers, statues, busts, memorial stones and other honors; an inventory in words and pictures. Imhof, Petersberg 2005, ISBN 3-86568-019-4 . P. 116ff.

Web links

Commons : Bruno Kruse  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marienfelde Cemetery Memorial for Bruno Kruse
  2. ^ L. Forrer: Biographical Dictionary of Medallists . Kruse, Bruno. tape III . Spink & Son Ltd, London 1907, p. 233 (English).
  3. ^ L. Forrer: Biographical Dictionary of Medallists . Kruse, Bruno. tape VII . Spink & Son Ltd, London 1923, p. 521 (English).
  4. ↑ Archive of the Dresden University of Fine Arts
  5. ↑ Anne Stein Master: The World's Garden to Hamburg.
  6. ^ M. Heidemann: Medal art in Germany from 1895 to 1914.
  7. ↑ Die Kunst für Alle ... , Volume 17, 1902, p. 408; preview
  8. ↑ Sieglinde Seele: Lexicon of Bismarck Monuments.
  9. ↑ Niederlausitz-aktuell dated August 24, 2017
  10. ↑ Elbhangkurier 2015-05
  11. ↑ Mateusz Magda: spacerem po dawnym Namysłowie . M&P Verlag, Namysłów 2019, ISBN 978-83-953909-0-6 , p. 51-52 .
  12. ↑ Barbara Leisner, Heiko KL Schulze, Ellen Thormann: The Hamburg main cemetery Ohlsdorf. History and tombs , Hans Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1990, page 192
personal data
SURNAME Kruse, Bruno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kruse, Bruno Friedrich Emil (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1934
Place of death Berlin