Carl Seffner

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Carl Seffner (1911)

Carl Ludwig Seffner (born June 19, 1861 in Leipzig ; † October 2, 1932 there ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Carl Seffner was born as the son of a shoemaker in Leipzig, where he initially trained as a lithographer. He then studied from 1877 to 1883 at the Leipzig Art Academy with Melchior zur Straßen . He then worked for a short time in Berlin and stayed in Italy and Paris from 1886 to 1888. After he returned to Leipzig in 1889, he devoted himself mainly to portraiture. From 1889 to 1893 he made the marble busts of Anton Springer , Carl Thiersch , Bernhard Windscheid and Carl Ludwig for the University of Leipzig . Seffner carried the honorary title of Privy Councilor .

In 1895, the presumed grave of Johann Sebastian Bach was opened during the renovation of the Johanniskirche in Leipzig . The anatomist Wilhelm His assigned the found skull to Johann Sebastian Bach. His and Seffner designed an anatomical reconstruction of Bach's head. In 1909, Seffner was awarded an honorary doctorate in medicine from Leipzig University for his achievements in pictorial reconstruction . Because of this work, he was later entrusted with the execution of the New Bach Monument in front of the St. Thomas Church in Leipzig (1908). In 1895 Seffner became a member of the Leipzig Freemason Lodge Minerva to the three palms . In 1901 he was made an honorary member of the Dresden Art Academy .

Carl Seffner headed the Leipzig scholars and artists' association The Leonids until his death . He died at the age of 71 on October 2, 1932 in Leipzig and was buried in the family grave originally intended for his daughter.

Works

For Leipzig he created the monuments to Carl Heine (1897), Emperor Maximilian (1897), the mayor Carl Wilhelm Otto Koch (1899) and the young Goethe as a Leipzig student (1903) and Johann Sebastian Bach (1908), for Jena the Karl monument von Hases and the Ernst Leuschner Monument (1903) for Lutherstadt Eisleben . He also created the Goethe bust (1920), which was initially installed in the (second) Gewandhaus (Grassistraße) and has been in the foyer of the Mendelssohn Hall of the (third) Gewandhaus (on Augustusplatz) since 1999.

In addition, Seffner created a large number of artistically valuable grave monuments in Leipzig's southern cemetery , for example for the grave of his daughter Charlotte Seffner (born October 13, 1893; † February 4, 1920), who died at the age of 26 (Section II, discounts 164–167 ). Not to be forgotten is the bust for Ferdinand Goetz , which is in the garden of the Goetz House.

literature

  • Katrin Löffler, Iris Schöpa, Heidrun Sprinz: The Leipziger Südfriedhof. History, gravesites, grave monuments. Edition Leipzig, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-361-00526-4 .
  • Horst Riedel: Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z . Second, revised and expanded edition, published by PRO LEIPZIG, Leipzig 2012, ISBN 978-3936508031 , p. 545.

Web links

Commons : Carl Seffner  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from April 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.minerva-zu-den-drei-palmen.de
  2. ^ Archive of the Dresden University of Fine Arts
personal data
SURNAME Seffner, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seffner, Carl Ludwig; Seffner, Karl Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH October 2, 1932
Place of death Leipzig