Hermann Schubert (sculptor)

Entombment of Christ. 1869. Marble relief in the choir of the main church Sankt Petri (Hamburg)

Memorial to Wilhelm-Müller in Dessau

Memorial for Friedrich Schneider in Dessau

Hermann Schubert (born June 12, 1831 in Dessau , † January 24, 1917 in Dresden ) was a German sculptor .

He was a son of the sculptor and gilded artist Benjamin Schubert from Dessau. Like his brother, the history painter Franz August Schubert (1806–1893), he too was drawn to Rome, where he stayed from 1857 to 1873. He is said to have belonged to the group of artists sponsored by the abdicated King Ludwig I († 1868). After that he lived in Dresden until his death, where he was a professor at the royal art academy and also a court sculptor in Anhalt .

Hermann Schubert was married to Emma Triebel since 1873, who gave birth to their son Otto Schubert on February 23, 1878 .

Works (selection)

• Dessau
  • Jubilee fountain (1867) to commemorate the accession of Prince Leopold IV. Friedrich (Anhalt-Dessau) to the throne in 1817 and the reunification of the Anhalt countries under his rule, with larger-than-life figures of four Dessau princes, four female figures of the Anhalt principalities and four historical reliefs Content; Zinc casting; Demolished in 1938
  • Wilhelm Müller monument in the city park: portrait bust twice life size; on the central part allegorical figure reliefs from poetry, science, Hellas and Germany (1891)
  • Friedrich Schneider Monument in Dessau City Park ; Portrait bust made of stone, on the base lyre, wreath and piano rolls made of metal (1893)
  • Askania group on the authority building; destroyed in World War II.
• Hamburg
  • Relief of the Entombment of Christ, in the Petrikirche (completed 1869)
• innsbruck
  • Portrait bust of Alois Flir , in the Ferdinandeum (completed 1858)
• Rome
  • Relief of the Entombment of Christ, in the Church of Sant'Alfonso all'Esquilino (completed 1857)
• Zerbst
  • Relief of the Entombment of Christ, in the Nikolaikirche

literature

• Thieme-Becker Artist Lexicon, Volume 30, Page 305.
• Tom Henke: Architects in Cotta. Part 2: Professor Otto Schubert's work at Hebbelplatz and Steinbacher Strasse. Cottaer Froschpost 1/2008 (PDF; 1.6 MB) page 6 f.
• A. Springer: Schubert's Entombment of Christ. Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst, Volume 5, Leipzig 1870 p. 225 in the Google book search
• Historical monuments in Dessau
• Monuments in the Dessau City Park (PDF; 6.3 MB) p. 14
• Karl Emil Franzos : German journeys - travel and culture images. First row: From Anhalt and Thuringia. Section Dessau, "And the new monuments?" (1901). gutenberg - lexikus.de