Karl Begas

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Karl Begas

Karl Begas (born November 23, 1845 in Berlin , † February 21 or 23, 1916 Koethen ) was a German sculptor and (briefly) university lecturer . He usually signed with Carl Begas , to differentiate himself from his father of the same name he is also often called Carl Begas the Younger or Karl Begas the Younger .

Life

Bust of Hans von Marées , 1878

Karl Begas was the son of the painter Carl Joseph Begas and the youngest brother of Oskar , Reinhold and Adalbert Begas . He learned sculpture in the studio of his brother Reinhold, whose naturalistic conception he followed.

He stayed in Rome in 1869 and 1873 , where he made various portrait busts, and in 1876 jokingly exhibited a group of faun with child , which was followed in 1878 by the group of siblings . In 1880 he made a marble bust of Kaiser Wilhelm I for the Gemäldegalerie in Kassel , in 1882 two limestone figures for the University of Kiel and two sphinxes for the government building in Kassel.

In 1889 he was appointed professor at the Kassel Art Academy . Soon after returning to Berlin, he continued to carry out major public works.

1904–1906 Karl Begas created the marble statue of the German Empress Auguste Viktoria . It was initially installed in the imperial rose garden at the New Palace in Potsdam. After the end of the monarchy it ended up in the Temple of Antiquities in front of the New Palais. The body of the Empress , which had been transferred from Doorn near Utrecht to Potsdam, was also buried here in 1921 . After 2000 the statue came to the House of History in the New Kutschstall in Potsdam. The second version of the statue of the Empress, created in 1909, was first installed in the rose garden of the Berlin zoo . Damaged here in World War II, the monument was buried in the park of Bellevue Palace in the 1950s together with the figures from the famous Siegesallee . Excavated in 1979 and initially stored in the Berlin Lapidarium on the Landwehr Canal, the marble sculpture was restored, but with the head still incorrectly attached, to the foyer of House 1 of the Auguste Viktoria Hospital in Berlin-Schöneberg, Rubensstrasse 125. Here it is reminiscent of the imperial one Founder of the hospital (today Vivantes-Klinikum AVK). In 1990 the statue of the Empress by Karl Begas was exhibited together with other works by his hand in the exhibition "Ethos and Pathos, The Berlin Sculpture School 1786-1914" curated by Peter Bloch, Sibylle Einholz and Jutta von Simson at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin. This work and other works by Karl Begas are described and illustrated in detail in the exhibition catalog.

Boar hunt from the time of Joachim I, Fasanerieallee, Berlin

Karl Begas designed monument group 7 for Berlin's Siegesallee with the statue of the Askanian Margrave Otto IV (“with the arrow”) and the busts of Johann von Kröcher, called Droiseke , and Johann von Buch. The group was unveiled on March 22, 1899. The head of the statue of Otto IV is in private ownership in Berlin. He also made monument group 31 for Siegesallee with the central statue of Friedrich Wilhelm IV . The side busts show the naturalist Alexander von Humboldt and the sculptor Christian Daniel Rauch . The unveiling of this group took place on October 26, 1900.

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Begas, 5. Karl B. In: Theodor Westrin, Ruben Gustafsson Berg, Eugen Fahlstedt (eds.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 34 : Supplement: Aa – Cambon . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1922, Sp. 508 (Swedish, runeberg.org - here February 23, 1916 in Köthen).
personal data
SURNAME Begas, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Begas, Carl; Begas, Carl the Younger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1916
Place of death Koethen