Friedrich Brugger

Friedrich Brugger. Graphic by Adolf Neumann.

Friedrich Brugger (born January 13, 1815 in Munich ; † April 8, 1870 there ) was a German sculptor .

biography

Brugger studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. After his stay in Italy from 1841 to 1843 he returned to Munich and received orders from King Ludwig I for several busts in the Hall of Fame and for several large bronze statues. Together with Johann Martin von Wagner and Johann von Halbig , he created the Quadriga on the Munich Siegestor . He designed and modeled the shape of the monument to King Maximilian II cast by Ferdinand von Miller in 1860 , which can be seen in the place of honor of the Old Palace on Maximilianstrasse in Bayreuth .

tomb

Grave of Friedrich Brugger on the old southern cemetery in Munich location

The tomb of Frederick Brugger is on the old southern cemetery in Munich (burial ground 16 - row 10 - 26th) Location .

Other works (selection)

• 1848: Monument to Christoph Willibald Gluck on the Promenadeplatz in Munich
• 1852 (together with Leo von Klenze): Tomb for Johannes von Müller in the old town cemetery in Kassel (dismantled in 1936, reconstructed in 2009)
• 1857: Monument to Jakob Fugger on Philippine-Welser-Straße in Augsburg
• 1857: Wax portrait of Hermann von Vicari in the Augustinermuseum in Freiburg (Breisgau)
• 1858: Monument to Duke Ludwig the Rich in Landshut
• 1860: Memorial to Carl Philipp von Wrede in Heidelberg (dismantled and melted down on April 17, 1940)
• 1861: Memorial to Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling on Maximilianstrasse in Munich
• 1861: Kurfürst-Max-Emanuel monument on the Promenadeplatz in Munich
• 1867: Monument to Leo von Klenze on Gärtnerplatz in Munich

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  Monument to Leo von Klenze in Munich

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  Monument to Max II. Emanuel in Munich

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  Bust on grave of Ernst Lasaulx

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  Grave of Leo von Klenze

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  Monument to Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov in Odessa

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments : search term "Friedrich Brugger" , (as of March 2018)
2. ↑ Eberhard Schöll: Heidelberg's promenade is adorned with a proud bronze hero Marshal Wrede, whom his king placed there with grace , July 9, 1964

literature

• Friedrich Pecht :  Brugger, Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 409.

Web links

• Бруггер Фридрих (Brugger Friedrich) , article from the old Russian encyclopedia Brockhaus-Efron (russ.)