Emil Hub

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Emil Hub, drawn by Lino Salini

Emil Hub (born February 2, 1876 in Frankfurt am Main ; † December 18, 1954 there ) was a German sculptor.

Life

Emil Hub first studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Frankfurt am Main, later also in Paris and Berlin. He was u. a. a student of Paul Wallot . From 1906 he worked as a freelance sculptor in Frankfurt am Main, where he was a teacher at the Städelschule in 1921 , where Ernst August von Mandelsloh was one of his students. He mainly made busts out of marble or bronze. After the Second World War he was busy restoring damaged works of art.

Works

Adam Opel Memorial in Rüsselsheim

His works include statues and monuments such as

  • The "August Lehr statue" in the stadium, Frankfurt (disappeared)
  • The "Ludwig Rehn Monument" in the garden of the Frankfurt University Clinics (disappeared)
  • The " Adam Opel Monument " 3.35 m high 4.5 t heavy, bronze, Rüsselsheim, 1937
  • "Fountain figures" of the fountain on Kurfürstenplatz, Frankfurt-Bockenheim , 1913
  • "Pierrot" on a red wooden plate, height 28 cm, bronze, around 1920
  • "David" on a darkly patinated greenish marble base, height 33 cm, around 1915
  • The sculptures “Cain”, “Andacht” and “Pan” in the Städel Frankfurt
  • Bronze sculpture: fencer-fencer-escrimeur
  • Bronze sculpture: Harlequin
  • Bronze sculpture: August Lehr , donated by the Opel family in 1926 in honor of the outstanding cyclist, installation site at the bike station in the forest station of the city of Frankfurt am Main, stolen from there and lost since the renovation work in 2005
  • Bronze sculpture: "Athlete", standing male nude with belt sling, flat rectangular base, light marble plinth, height: 33 cm (13 in), dark patina, signed, dated 1921,
Grave Carl Stroh

Emil Hub created several high-quality grave monuments in the old cemetery Offenbach , such as the graves of Kohl-Roos, Leo-Alt, Opel and Carl Stroh.

Web links

Commons : Emil Hub  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 6, 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.bockenheim-aktiv.de
  2. ↑ Man with a slingshot.
  3. ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Alter Friedhof (Offenbach am Main) In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
personal data
SURNAME Hub, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH 18th December 1954
Place of death Frankfurt am Main