Heinrich Jobst

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Heinrich Jobst (born October 6, 1874 in Schönlind, Upper Palatinate, † February 10, 1943 in Darmstadt ) was a German sculptor and medalist . From 1907 to 1914 he was a member of the Darmstadt artists' colony

Life

Sprudelhof Bad Nauheim (* 1911)
Liebig monument in Darmstadt (* 1913)
Ludo Mayer Fountain, Offenbach (* 1915)
Life guard monument at the Schloßgraben (* 1928)

Jobst was the son of the stonemason Josef Jobst and his wife Thekla geb. Weindler. Jobst came to Munich when he was six. From 1888 he did an apprenticeship with the sculptor Johann Nepomuk Hautmann (1820–1903). From November 10, 1896 to 1898, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Syrius Eberle . From 1898 to 1900 he was an assistant to Rudolf Maison (1854–1904) and Jakob Bradl . He then worked for Georg Wrba . At the same time he was an assistant at the Municipal School of Applied Arts in Munich. In 1901 he got a job as a specialist teacher at the Munich School of Applied Arts. In 1906 he was appointed by Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse and near the Rhine as a member of the Darmstadt artists' colony. Jobst succeeded Ludwig Habich , who had moved to Stuttgart. He took part in the Hessian State Exhibition in Darmstadt in 1908 and taught from 1909 as a professor of sculpture in the Grand Ducal teaching studio for applied arts until its dissolution in 1911.

Soon after his arrival, Jobst received the order for the Triton fountain in front of the Landeshypothekenbank on Paulusplatz. Jobst cultivated a close friendship with the architect and architecture professor at the TH Darmstadt Paul Meissner .

Heinrich Jobst was on friendly terms with numerous artists. These included Karl Killer , Ernst Riegel , Christian Heinrich Kleukens and Jakob Julius Scharvogel . He also maintained close relationships with the architects Friedrich Pützer and August Buxbaum . He was a member of the German Association of Artists .

Both the monumental lion of the bodyguard memorial on Darmstadt's Schloßgraben and the lion in front of the Hessian State Museum on the opposite side come from Jobst . He has also designed numerous busts of the Grand Duke and public figures in Darmstadt. In addition, he designed many reliefs, memorials and plaques.

Jobst was a very versatile artist. He not only worked in stone, but also in terracotta, biscuit porcelain, gold, silver, bronze, copper, iron and wood.

Heinrich Jobst had been with Felicitas born in 1924. Fehr (1896–1971) married. The marriage resulted in three sons and a daughter. Jobst died of heart failure in the Elisabethenstift on February 10, 1943. He was buried in the old cemetery . The Heinrich Jobst stairs on Mathildenhöhe in Darmstadt have been a reminder of him since 2001 .

Works (selection)

  • 1908: Relief plaque above the portal of the wedding tower in Darmstadt
  • 1908: "The Congratulator" (private collection)
  • 1909: Triton fountain in front of the (former) state mortgage bank in Darmstadt
  • 1909–1910: Beneke fountain in Bad Nauheim
  • 1910: Garden house and fountain to Friedrich Pützer's house in Darmstadt
  • 1910: Competition draft for a Bismarck national monument on the Elisenhöhe near Bingerbrück (not awarded a prize)
  • 1911–1913: Sprudelhof in Bad Nauheim:
    • Hauptsprudel (Großer Sprudel) with figures
    • Ernst Ludwig Fountain
    • Lion in the Sprudelhof (Striding Lion)
    • Decorative courtyard of bath house 2 with fountain
    • Decorative courtyard of bath house 7 with a fountain
  • 1913: Liebig monument on Luisenplatz in Darmstadt
  • 1912: two lions and flagpoles in front of the Hessian State Museum in Darmstadt
  • 1914: Four putti above the balcony of the former Grand Ducal Chamber of Agriculture in Darmstadt
  • 1915: Ernst-Ludwig-Brunnen, later Ludo-Mayer-Brunnen, on the Schlossplatz at the Offenbach am Main University of Design (started in 1909?)
  • 1928: Memorial of the bodyguard at the Schloßgraben in Darmstadt

literature

  • Bernhard Müller: Recent work by Heinrich Jobst. In: German art and decoration. Illustrated monthly booklets for modern painting, sculpture, architecture, home art and artistic work for women. Volume 41: October 1917 - March 1918. pp. 288-296 ( digitized version ).
  • Jobst, Heinrich . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 19 : Ingouville – Kauffungen . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1926, p. 26 .
  • Karl Heinz Hohenschuh: Heinrich Jobst (1874–1943). A Darmstadt sculptor from Bavaria. Self-published, Darmstadt 2005, ISBN 3-00-016287-9 .
  • Joachim Schmidt: Paulusplatz stories. 100 years in the ink district. Darmstadt 2014.

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Jobst  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ artist. Prof. Heinrich Jobst. German Society for Medal Art, accessed on November 29, 2014 .
  2. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Ordinary members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Jobst, Heinrich ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on September 2, 2015) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  3. ↑ Max Schmid (ed.): One hundred designs from the competition for the Bismarck National Monument on the Elisenhöhe near Bingerbrück-Bingen. Düsseldorfer Verlagsanstalt, Düsseldorf 1911. (n. Pag.)
personal data
SURNAME Jobst, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Schönlind, Upper Palatinate
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 1943
Place of death Darmstadt