Franz Linden (sculptor)

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Franz Linden (born December 2, 1873 in Aachen , † June 10, 1923 ) was a German sculptor .

Born in Aachen, Linden studied from 1904 to 1910 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Karl Janssen . After completing his studies, he continued to live in Düsseldorf and mainly worked there.

Works

  • Aachen
    • Alfred von Reumont -Denkmal occasion of the hundredth anniversary of his birth was July 9, 1910 at the City Garden unveiled
    • Alfred von Reumont monument, next to the Ponttor (1909)
  • Dusseldorf
  • Stuttgart
    • , Originally water-giving nymph as a fountain sculpture in the rose garden (about 1910)
      without the fountain in the Prague cemetery received
  • trier
    • Colossal statue of St. Peter in the "basilica"
  • Weather (Ruhr)
    • Main cemetery monument (1913)
  • Ronsdorf (today Wuppertal)
    • Jahn fountain in memory of the gymnastics father Friedrich Ludwig Jahn , unveiled on September 25, 1910 at the gym on Scheidtstrasse.
      The fountain has been dry for years.

literature

Web links

Commons : Franz Linden  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Linden, Franz . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 23 : Leitenstorfer – Mander . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1929, p. 240 .
  2. Ruth Meyer-Kahrweg : Monuments, fountains and sculptures in Wuppertal. Biographies of the participating artists. Born, Wuppertal 1991, ISBN 3-87093-058-6 .
  3. ^ Journal of the Aachen History Association . tape 32 , 1910, pp. 413 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  4. Aachen History Association: Reumont monument in the city garden.
  5. Madonna in St. Antonius Church in Düsseldorf, modeled by the sculptor Franz Linden, executed in Lasa marble , Rhine and Düssel (No. 36), from September 6, 1913
  6. Franz Lindner - Lamentation (From the war honors in the Holy Spirit Church in Düsseldorf) . In: The Christian Art . 19th year 1922/1923. Society for Christian Art Kunstverlag, Munich 1904, p. 137 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  7. Thomas Schnitzler: Monuments for 'gymnastics father' Friedrich Ludwig Jahn. Cologne 2002, p. 80.