Friedrich Kühn (sculptor)

Friedrich Kühn (born February 26, 1854 in Lauban , † 1937 in Munich ) was a German sculptor and modeller .

Kühn was the son of a master tailor, he studied from October 1873 at the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich with Max von Widnmann . From 1875 to 1880 he worked in the studio of the sculptor Fritz von Miller and from 1882 to 1883 in the studio of the sculptor Rudolf Maison . For the year 1883 he is listed as a member of the jury of the Munich artists' cooperative for the field of sculpture at the International Art Exhibition in the Glaspalast . After that he was self-employed and mainly made portrait busts and grave monuments. He had his first international success in 1885 at the exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts with his Ganymed group.

Works

1908: Bronze sculpture mourners - Bürklin tomb, Südfriedhof in Leipzig
1910: Memorial to the painters Anton Braith and Christian Mali in Biberach an der Riss

Selection of works
Schoenfeld and Talbot gravesite (1906), Düsseldorf North Cemetery
Gravesite of the Schulte family (around 1900), Nordfriedhof Düsseldorf
Portrait bust of Christian Mali
Sculpture mourners , Bürklin tomb in Leipzig
Braith Mali Monument in Biberach

literature

Kühn, Friedrich . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 22 : Krügner – Leitch . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1928, p. 57 .

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Kühn - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Register of the Academy of the Arts Munich
Description of the Bürklin tomb on the website of the Paul Benndorf Society

Individual evidence

↑ Illustrated catalog of the international art exhibition in the Königigl. Glass palace in Munich . Publisher by Rudolf Mosse, Munich 1883, p. 13 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

personal data
SURNAME	Kühn, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sculptor and modeller
DATE OF BIRTH	February 26, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lauban
DATE OF DEATH	1937
Place of death	Munich

[1] Illustrated catalog of the international art exhibition in the Königigl. Glass palace in Munich . Publisher by Rudolf Mosse, Munich 1883, p. 13 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).