Hans Krückeberg

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Hans Krückeberg, 1906

Hans Krückeberg (born March 12, 1878 in Treuenbrietzen , Brandenburg province , † December 25, 1952 in Belzig , Potsdam district ) was a German sculptor .

He studied at the Berlin Art Academy , where he was a master student of Louis Tuaillon . He became a member of the Berlin Secession . In 1905 he received the Rome Prize of the Prussian Academy of the Arts . From 1911 he was represented with his works at many exhibitions. Among other things, he created animal figures, portrait busts and reliefs , as well as monuments with bronze groups for public spaces.

From the 1940s he lived in Belzig in the house of his father-in-law, the Cameroon missionary Reinhold Grundemann . The house, in which individual works by Krückeberg have been preserved, was placed under monument protection on August 30, 2005 .

Works

Tomb for Friedrich Althoff (2006)
  • 1911: Competition design for the Oderbrunnen , also called the Steinbock-Brunnen after the founder , in Frankfurt (Oder) (together with the architect Hans Bernoulli , executed in 1912 based on a competing design by Adolf Amberg )
  • 1911: Tomb for the Prussian university politician Friedrich Althoff in the Botanical Garden in Berlin-Dahlem
  • 1912: Plastic architectural jewelry on the clothing store of the Fischbein & Mendel clothing store in Berlin, Lindenstrasse 44–47 and 51–53 (facade design by Hans Bernoulli)
  • 1914: Plastic architectural decorations on the Nordstern House in Berlin-Schöneberg (Architects: Paul Mebes and Paul Emmerich ; under monument protection)
  • 1915 ?: Marble bust of Friedrich Althoff in the new building of the German library in Leipzig
  • 1927: Memorial of the fallen soldiers of the Thuringian Hussar Regiment No. 12, called Hussar Monument , in Merseburg , in the palace garden
  • Executed in 1927: Bronze group "Forest Secret" in the Bürgerpark in Berlin-Pankow
  • 1935: Plastic jewelry on the administration building of the Brandenburg Fire Society in Berlin-Tiergarten, Am Karlsbad 4/5 (Architects: Paul Mebes and Paul Emmerich); under monument conservation

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karl Nägelin-Gschwind, Maya Nägelin-Gschwind, Mario Botta: Hans Bernoulli. Architect and town planner. Birkhauser, Basel et al. 1993, ISBN 3-7643-2829-0 , p. 25.
  2. ↑ Sybille Gramlich, Irmelin Küttner et al. (Ed.): City of Frankfurt (Oder). (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , monuments in Brandenburg. Volume 3.) Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2002, ISBN 3-88462-190-4 , p. 147 f.
  3. ↑ Administration building of the Brandenburg Fire Society in the Berlin State Monument List
personal data
SURNAME Krückeberg, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Treuenbrietzen , Brandenburg Province
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 1952
Place of death Belzig , Potsdam district