Ferdinand Freiherr von Miller
Ferdinand Miller , from 1875 von Miller and from 1912 Freiherr von Miller (born June 8, 1842 in Munich , † December 18, 1929 there ) was a German sculptor and ore caster and long-time director of the Munich Art Academy . He was also Imperial Councilor of the Crown of Bavaria and Royal Bavarian Rittmeister .
family
Miller came from a family in Aichach in Upper Bavaria and was the son of the ore caster and First Inspector of the Royal Ore Foundry in Munich Ferdinand von Miller (1813–1887) and Anna von Miller, née. Pösl (1815-1890). With the elevation of the father to the hereditary Bavarian nobility on October 12, 1875, his children were also raised to the nobility, to which, apart from Ferdinand von Miller jun. The engineer Oskar von Miller and the chemist Wilhelm von Miller also counted.
Life
Miller received his training from his father in Munich, who was first inspector at the Royal Ore Foundry there. He expanded his training in Paris , London and most recently in Dresden with Ernst Hähnel . Miller then went on study trips through Italy and North America . He made about seventy statues.
From 1900 to 1919 he was director of the Royal Bavarian Art Academy in Munich. He was Reichsrat of the Crown of Bavaria and councilor in Munich. In 1922 he took over the chairmanship of the artist society Allotria .
In 1884 he acquired Karneid Castle near Bozen and restored it.
Ferdinand von Miller was buried in the grave of the von Miller family in the cemetery of the Winthirkirche in Munich 's Neuhausen district , where his brother Oskar is also buried.
Honors
- Honorary Citizen of the City of Lauingen (1881)
- Honorary Citizen of the City of Munich (1912)
- Elevation to the Bavarian baron class on June 22, 1912 in Berchtesgaden , followed by enrollment in the nobility register of the Kingdom of Bavaria with the baron class on August 12, 1912.
plant
- Colossal statues of Alexander von Humboldt and William Shakespeare in Tower Grove Park in St. Louis (USA, 1878)
- Monument to Albertus Magnus in Lauingen (1881; listed)
- Defenders of Charleston (Confederate Memorial / Soldier's Monument) ( Confederate War Memorial, soldier statue) at Magnolia Cemetery in Charleston (South Carolina) (USA) (made in 1882 by the Royal Ore Foundry in Munich )
- Colossal statue of Christopher Columbus in Tower Grove Park in St. Louis (USA, 1886)
- Monument to King Ludwig I in the Walhalla (unveiled on August 25, 1890)
- Monument to the violin maker Matthias Klotz in Mittenwald , 1890
- Memorial (equestrian statue) for Kaiser Wilhelm I in Metz (unveiled on September 11, 1892; destroyed in 1918)
- Memorial to Prince Regent Luitpold in Berchtesgaden (unveiled 1893)
- Monument (statue) for Kaiser Wilhelm I in Trier (unveiled on May 15, 1893)
- Statue of the Virgin Mary in front of the Nonner Kircherl in Bad Reichenhall from 1895 (listed)
- Memorial to Prince Friedrich Karl in Metz (inaugurated in 1898; destroyed in 1919)
- Memorial to Prince Regent Luitpold in Bamberg (unveiled in 1900)
- Bronze monument (equestrian statue) for Ludwig I of Bavaria in Regensburg (unveiled in 1902)
- Bronze monument (equestrian statue) for Ludwig the Bavarian on Kaiser-Ludwig-Platz in Munich (unveiled 1905)
- Monument (statue) for Kaiser Wilhelm I in Neunkirchen (Saar) (unveiled on September 22, 1907)
- Bronze monument Löwe von Eggmühl in memory of the Battle of Eggmühl in 1809 in Schierling , at the Lion Monument, (unveiled in 1909)
- Bronze monument to King Ludwig II on the Cornelius Bridge in Munich (unveiled on June 19, 1910; dismantled for armament purposes in 1942; head preserved)
- Hercules boy with club in the garden of the Lenbachhaus in Munich, 1890
Virgin Mary statue in Bad Reichenhall
literature
- Miller, Ferdinand (II) of . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 24 : Mandere – Möhl . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1930, p. 562-563 .
- Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelslexikon Volume IX, Volume 116 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1998, ISSN 0435-2408 .
- Angelika Mundorff, Eva von Seckendorff (ed.): The Millers. Departure of a family. Allitera Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-86520-187-3 .
- Erika Bosl: Miller, Ferdinand (II.) Von, sculptor and ore caster. In: Karl Bosl (ed.): Bosls Bavarian biography. Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0792-2 , p. 527 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Ferdinand Freiherr von Miller in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History
- Miller, Ferdinand von II (Prof., Freiherr). (No longer available online.) In: Künstlerlexikon des Werdenfelser Land - text excerpt from over 4900 short biographies. Antiquariat Benkert, archived from the original on September 12, 2011 ; Retrieved September 3, 2013 .
- Personnel lists from the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich
- Video at ARD-Alpha, 16 min. (Online until March 30, 2022) Stories of great spirits: The royal ore foundry in Munich Johann Baptist Stiglmaier (1791–1844 / ore caster), Ferdinand Miller (1842–1929 / ore caster and sculptor) and Ludwig von Schwanthaler (1802–1848 / court sculptor) discuss on a stage in the old southern cemetery.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Confederate Memorial - Charleston, SC , accessed on December 5, 2014 (here misleadingly dated to 1870, in fact probably not created before Ferdinand von Miller's stay in the USA from 1871)
- ^ Hercules boy with club, Ferdinand von Miller (1842 Munich - 1929 Munich). Retrieved October 18, 2019 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Miller, Ferdinand Freiherr von |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Miller, Ferdinand (maiden name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor and ore caster |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 8, 1842 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
DATE OF DEATH | December 18, 1929 |
Place of death | Munich |