Engelbert Peiffer

Engelbert Joseph Peiffer (different spelling Engelbert Josef Peiffer , also erroneously: Engelbert Pfeiffer ; * May 14, 1830 in Cologne , † October 18, 1896 in Hamburg ) was a German sculptor and medalist.

Life

Engelbert Peiffer, the son of a blacksmith, completed an apprenticeship in stonemasonry in Cologne, went to study at the Berlin Art Academy in 1850 and then worked for several years as a modeller in the Fernsichter clay factory in Kellinghusen . In 1862 he came to Hamburg. In 1873 he took over the management of the stonemasonry workshops of the Hanseatic Construction Company. Peiffer was a member of the Hamburg Artists' Association from 1832 .

Peiffer died in Hamburg in 1896 and was buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery near the rose garden. The grave site was closed, the grave letter no longer exists. The Peiffersweg in Barmbek -Nord has been named after him since 1914 .

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His early works show a classicistic style , later works are more likely to be classified as realistic.

Peiffer received numerous public and private commissions. The most famous of his works in the Hamburg cityscape include:

• The Vierländerin from the Vierländerin fountain on the Hopfenmarkt (1878) in front of the Nikolaikirche ;
• the monumental Hansa fountain (1878) in St. Georg ;
• the facade sculpture of the Hamburger Hof on Jungfernstieg (1881–83);
• the statues of Archbishop St. Ansgar and Count Adolf III. von Schauenburg on the Trostbrücke (1883);
• the statue of the reformer Johannes Bugenhagen (1885) in front of the Johanneum .

Further from him:

• the statues of Rubens , Tizian , Cornelius , Holbein , Schlüter and Rauch on the old building of the Kunsthalle (1886)
• the allegorical groups of the former Oberpostdirektion on Stephansplatz , which represent telegraphy, telephony and the use of the post office for trade on land and at sea
• the statue of Charlemagne with the four heraldic lions in front of the " Little Michel " (1889/90)
• the statues of St. James and Emperor Heinrich VI. at the town hall (1892/93),
• the figures of the apostles at St. John's Church in Pöseldorf (1893).

One of the oldest works by Peiffers in Hamburg is the grave memorial for Gabriel Riesser (1806–1863), the pioneer of the emancipation of the Jews, which was erected in the Grindelfriedhof in 1865 and, in 1937, relocated to the Jewish cemetery on Ilandkoppel Street . The white marble relief created by Peiffer shows the "luminous and undisguised truth that kills the serpent of lies" .

There are several important works by Peiffer at the Ohlsdorf cemetery: The grave of Rachal (1866), the grave of the engineer Alexander Schaeffer (1890), the grave of Bonne / Reye (1895) and the grave of the family of Kommerzienrat Heye (1893) .

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  Vierländerin fountain
  at the hop market

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  Allegory,
  Oberpostdirektion

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  'Apostle,
  Saint John

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  St. Jacobus ,
  Hamburg City Hall

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  Holbein ,
  Hamburger Kunsthalle

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  Hamburger Hof ,
  Jungfernstieg

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  Gabriel Riesser's tomb , Jewish cemetery

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  Schaeffer grave sculpture , Ohlsdorf cemetery

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  Heye / Nun grave , Ohlsdorf cemetery

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  Bonne / Reye grave , Ohlsdorf cemetery

Individual evidence

1. ^ Trostbrücke on the Hamburg web
2. ↑ Johanneum Hamburg ( Memento of the original from December 25, 2008 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. 
3. ↑ Stephansplatz in the evening paper
4. ^ Hamburg State Archives: Finding aid for the Hamburg City Hall Building Commission .
5. ↑ Rachal's tomb at fredriks.de
6. ↑ Christine Behrens: The Schaeffer tomb by Engelbert Peiffer - a milestone on the Ohlsdorf cemetery . In: Ohlsdorf. Journal for Mourning Culture No. 86, III, 2004, pp. 33–36 ( digitized version )
7. ↑ Text and images Bonne / Reye -Grab at fredriks.de ; Details Bonne / Reeye grave with Barbara Leisner, Heiko KL Schulze, Ellen Thormann: The Hamburg main cemetery Ohlsdorf. History and tombs. Hans Christians, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-7672-1060-6 , p. 47 cat. 250.
8. ^ Text and images Heye / Nonne -Grab at fredriks.de ; Details Heye / Nun grave with Barbara Leisner, Heiko KL Schulze, Ellen Thormann: The Hamburg main cemetery Ohlsdorf. History and tombs. Hans Christians, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-7672-1060-6 , p. 43 cat. 224.

literature

• Pfeiffer, Engelbert . In: Hermann Alexander Müller : Biographical Artist Lexicon. Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 421 ( digitized version ).
• Karl Joachim Christian Zimmermann: Engelbert Peiffer died October 18, 1896 . In: Annual report of the Kunstverein in Hamburg 1897, p. 22ff.
• Emil Benezé :  Peiffer, Engelbert Joseph . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 53, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1907, p. 5. * KWT: Peiffer, Engelbert Joseph . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 350 .
• Manfred F. Fischer : Phoenix and annual rings. Contributions to building history and monument preservation in Hamburg . Christians, Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3-7672-1091-6 , pp. 190-191.
• Christine Behrens: The Schaeffer tomb by Engelbert Peiffer - a milestone in the Ohlsdorf cemetery . In: Ohlsdorf. Journal for Trauerkultur No. 86, III, 2004, pp. 33–36 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Engelbert Peiffer  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Engelbert Joseph Peiffer at denkmalplatz.de