Gustav Kaupert

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Gustav Kaupert, portrait by Friedrich Gunkel , Rome 1849

Gustav Kaupert (born April 4, 1819 in Kassel ; † December 5, 1897 there ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Gustav Kaupert's grave in the main cemetery in Kassel

Gustav Kaupert was a son of the goldsmith and engraver Christian Wilhelm Kaupert (1786–1863). He first learned from his father and worked for a time as a die cutter in his father's business. He then attended the Academy in Kassel and studied with the sculptors C. Ruhl and W. Henschel as well as with the painters Friedrich Wilhelm Müller (1801–1889), Karl Christian Aubel (1796–1882) and Ludwig Emil Grimm (1790–1863). During this time he did not commit to any particular artistic activity. In 1844 he went to Munich and worked in Ludwig Schwanthaler's studio. In this workshop he modeled the relief for the Mozart monument in Salzburg. When the Kassel Academy announced a prize assignment, he took part by presenting a group from the Flood theme. For this he received a scholarship to travel to Italy in 1845. On the way to Italy he worked again briefly in the Schwanthaler studio.

Gustav Kaupert initially stayed in Rome from 1845 , lived here until 1867 and belonged to the German Romans . He formed a shared apartment with Heinrich Dreber , Heinrich Gerhardt and Friedrich Gunkel . During this time he concentrated increasingly on sculpture in his artistic work, was particularly inspired by the Italian school of the time and completed his techniques. This is where his later style was expressed. He also took part, among other things, in an artistic competition for which he submitted the group of "Bethlehem Child Murder" and won the Accademia di San Luca award for it. With this work he caused a sensation and moved into the field of vision of the American sculptor Thomas Crawford (1814–1857). He invited Kaupert to the USA and offered him to participate in some of his projects in the USA, such as the Georg Washington Monument for Richmond (Virginia) . For Crawford's major order to decorate the Capitol in Washington, DC , Kaupert worked on the colossal statue of Liberty and on the pediment relief. From the equestrian statue of Washington in Richmond (Virginia), which was cast in the Royal Ore Foundry in Munich , all figures with the exception of Washington were modeled by Kaupert.

In the 1860s Gustav Kaupert, like Böcklin and Marées, belonged to the "Tugendbund". And he received a call for a professorship in sculpture at the Städelschen-Kunst-Institut. He accepted this and taught at the Städel Art Institute in Frankfurt from 1867 to 1892 . In addition to his teaching activities, he was also practically active as a sculptor. In 1872 he received first prize in the Hamburg competition for the so-called Werder shield. A year later he presented his work to the public at the Vienna exhibition and received the “Great Medal” for it. In 1874 he created the Hessendenkmal in the Auepark of Kassel, his Börne monument was unveiled in 1877 and he was present in Frankfurt / Main with numerous works around 1880. For the design of the opera house he made several figures, for example “recitative” and “song” for the hall, but also the Lessing monument in Frankfurt. He then spent his twilight years in Kassel, where a museum for his designs and models was set up that no longer exists today. In Gustav Kaupert's work, the classicist conceptions dominated throughout his life, emerging from Roman-ancient plastic art. There are only very few elements from the later Biedermeier period in certain pieces of clothing or the design of decorative elements. Since there was no approach or transition to more modern elements and forms of representation with him, his fame ended at the end of the 19th century.

Gustav Kaupert died on December 5th, very recognized and valued for his work. Known and distinguished during his lifetime, his classicist style soon fell into oblivion after his death.

Young woman with child in her lap, Rome 1856 ( Liebieghaus , Frankfurt am Main)
Jesus Christ ( Basilica of Constantine , Trier)

Works

• Kaupert modeled the relief for the Mozart monument in Salzburg, 1844, Salzburg.

• Representation of a group from the topic “The Flood”, 1844, Kassel.

• Bethlehem Child Murder Group, 1851, San Luca.

• Equestrian statue of Washington, around 1854, Washington.

• Figures of the day and night in the reception hall of the main train station, no year, Frankfurt / Main.

• Girl with flowers and jug on Staedel, no year, Frankfurt / Main.

• Colossal Statue of Liberty for the Capitol, circa 1856, Washington; In addition, participation in the design of the gable relief on the Capitol.

• Pfeiffer's grave monument in the old cemetery, 1858, Kassel.

• Prometheus liberation by Hercules in the Palmengarten, around 1870, Frankfurt / Main.

• Perseus and Andromeda for the palm garden, around 1870, Frankfurt / Main.

• Hessendenkmal im Auepark, 1874, Kassel.

• Börne monument, 1877, Frankfurt / Main.

• Lessing monument, around 1880, Frankfurt / Main; Made possible by a testamentary amount of money from the Jewish citizen of Frankfurt, Herz Hayum Goldschmidt, it was placed in front of the city library near the Obermainbrücke. Today the monument is located in the plant ring not far from the historical site.

• 3 entwined graces next to the southern group of gables of the opera in Frankfurt, around 1880, Frankfurt / Main.

• Draft for two allegorical groups for the government building, no year, Kassel.

• 2 standing figures "Recitation" and "Singing" in the opera hall in Frankfurt, around 1880, Frankfurt / Main.

• 2 trombone angels in the opera hall in Frankfurt, around 1880, Frankfurt / Main.

• Marble figures of Jesus and the Evangelists at the Constantine Basilica in Trier , around 1880, Trier. The double life-size marble sculptures were damaged in World War II - only the heads are preserved.

• 10 allegorical reliefs for the new building of the Städel Institute, around 1880, Frankfurt / Main.

• 4 allegorical reliefs for the new building of the stock exchange, around 1890, Frankfurt / Main.

• Kaiser Wilhelm Monument in the Frankfurt Römer, 1891, Frankfurt / Main; Statue of Kaiser Wilhelm I in Carrarian marble , which was unveiled on March 22, 1892 in the Imperial Hall of the Frankfurt Roman . When the Römer was (partially) destroyed by aerial bombs during the air raids on Frankfurt am Main in the Second World War , the statue of the emperor was also lost.

literature

Web links

Commons : Gustav Kaupert  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brigitte Lohkamp, ​​Gusav Kaupert, Neue Deutsche Biographie, Volume 11, 1977, p. 377f. in http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd116078308html
  2. ↑ NDB
  3. ↑ NDB
  4. ↑ NDB
personal data
SURNAME Kaupert, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH December 5, 1897
Place of death kassel