Franz Krüger (sculptor)

Franz Krüger (born July 12, 1849 in Berlin , † July 17, 1912 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German sculptor .

Krüger was a student of the foundry artist Friedrich Wilhelm Wolff . He then studied at the Royal Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin with Albert Wolff . He lived and worked in Berlin and in Breslau. In 1879 he settled in Frankfurt am Main. He created an extensive sculptural work.

Works in Frankfurt (Main)

One of the two bronze plaques created by Krüger at the entrance to the Paulskirche to commemorate the Frankfurt National Assembly

• Old Opera : the two groups of figures "Truth and Poetry" (1881/82) and "Art and Nature" (1902/03) as well as the panther quadriga on the front gable (1902)
• Sachsenhausen cemetery: the figure on the war memorial from 1885/86
• Central Station : the clocks group on the inner wall (1886-87) as well as the design of the two three-armed about 20 meters high cast iron - candelabra on the station square mounted (the first electric street lamps Frankfurt, from almost 500 parts and placed 1891/92; the mold created Otto Spark )
• Main post office : the monument to Kaiser Wilhelm I in the courtyard (1894/95)
• Frankfurter Bank : the personifications of "hard work" and "wealth" (1890)
• Old City Library : portraits of Matthäus Merian and Achilles Augustus von Lersner on the wing structures (1893)
• Paulskirche : two bronze panels on both sides of the main entrance, in memory of the Frankfurt National Assembly , the first freely elected German parliament (1898, on the 50th anniversary of the opening, installed at the instigation of the City of Frankfurt; the panels were cast in the Schäffer & Walcker fine art foundry in Berlin)
• Peterskirche : the representation of the evangelists Matthew and John
• Romans : the figure of Francofurtia in the southeast corner of the Alt-Limpurg house (1897/98)
• Bockenheimer Anlage : Design for a Mozart monument, donated by the privateer Gustav Mack-Flinsch, executed by Georg Bäumle , erected in 1913. It was destroyed by aerial bombs during the air raids on Frankfurt am Main in 1944 and replaced by a memorial created by Gerhard Marcks at roughly the same place after the end of the war

In addition, Krüger created numerous portrait reliefs, busts, portrait busts and grave monuments.

literature

• Hermann Alexander Müller: General Artist Lexicon , 1906, page 174

Individual evidence

1. ^ Entry in: Art in Public Space Frankfurt , City of Frankfurt am Main
2. ↑ In 1891 the International Electrotechnical Exhibition took place on the site . The candelabras are provided with the allegorical attributes “ generator coil ” and “light” and are adorned on the four meter high plinths with three larger than life winged and fish-tailed naiads . They were manufactured by the Tangerhütte iron foundry in 1891 . When the reconstruction of the square threatened to be scrapped at the end of the 1950s / beginning of the 1960s, the then owner of the Marienhütte branch in Hanau- Großauheim had the candelabra plinth erected in front of the entrance of the Großauheim factory, later in the park of the director's villa. (, Frankfurter Neue Presse , April 7, 2009; Bettina Grimm: Redesign of the station forecourt Frankfurt / Main Hbf  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove it this note. , Pro Gaslicht - Association for the preservation and promotion of gas light as a cultural asset, March 23, 2009; Industrial and cultural sites in Steinheim, Großauheim, Klein-Auheim and Wolfgang ( Memento of the original from February 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: Der Archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. , Route der Industriekultur - local route guide Hanau II;, Frankfurter Neue Presse, May 11, 2009)   
3. ^ Art in public space, Frankfurt
4. ^ Hans Riebsamen: Mozart: Cool reception for the musician from Vienna , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , January 12, 2006

Web links

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