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Hugo Emanuel Becher (born February 28, 1871 in Leipzig , Kingdom of Saxony , † September 19, 1942 in Munich ) was a German academic sculptor , medalist and mouleur.
Life
Hugo Becher was born as the son of Gustav Becher, a uniform supplier, and Maria Becher, b. Schmidt, born in Leipzig. He received his basic sculptural training in Rome . In 1891 he began studying at the Munich Art Academy and was a student of Wilhelm von Rümann . From 1893 to 1897 he studied at the Dresden Art Academy and was a master student of Robert Diez . This was followed by studies at the private Julian Academy in Paris . In 1898 he received an award from the Salon des artistes français in Paris . In 1899 he received the great gold medal of honor from the Dresden Art Academy. During this time he lived and worked in the Dresden Künstlerhaus in Loschwitz . By 1904 he was already working as a freelancer in Munich. He became a member of the Munich Artists' Cooperative and from 1901 had already exhibited his works regularly in exhibitions in the Munich Glass Palace . He was a member of the Masonic lodges Balduin zur Linde in Leipzig and Zurkette in Munich. In 1942 he took part in the Great German Art Exhibition in Munich. He mainly created medals , plaques , portrait busts and small sculptures. For the Saxon porcelain factory Fraureuth , he made animal models and templates as well as genre scenes. Among other things, the figure of a love goddess Venus as a female nude, a rhesus monkey and a pair of angora goats have been handed down . He later supplied moulages for the scientific institutes in Germany . His detailed and highly precise medical demonstration models are in various university collections. In Munich he ran a company for the production of moulages; he signed this with the inscription fa. HE Becher, Munich .
Works (selection
- 1901: Bust of the Prodigal Son in plaster , German Art Exhibition Munich.
- 1905: Figure of a Chinese water carrier , very realistic and detailed image, German Art Exhibition Association of Visual Artists Munich, "Secession" eV
- 1906: Portrait bust, German Art Exhibition Munich.
- 1907: Portrait bust of Prof. Kellermann , marble, German Art Exhibition Munich.
- 1909: Portrait bust for the painter Robert Friedrich Karl Scholtz , marble, German Art Exhibition Munich.
literature
- Official catalog, Munich 1930. German Art Exhibition Munich 1930 in the Glaspalast. Organizer of the Munich Artists' Cooperative, Association of Visual Artists Munich, "Secession" eV, Munich New Secession eV May 30th to early October 1930.
- Official catalog, Munich 1942. German Art Exhibition Munich 1942 in the Glaspalast. Organizer of the Munich Artists' Cooperative, Association of Munich's Visual Artists.
- Artist on the Dresden Elbe slope. Volume 2, Elbhang-Kurier-Verlag, Dresden 2007, ISBN 978-3-936240-09-2 .
- Hartmut Ständer, Thomas A Luger, Sonja Ständer: The University Dermatology Clinic Münster: History and Moulage Collection. Springer-Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-540-28018-9 , p. 38.
- Susanne Fraas: Kissed awake. Hidden treasures of the Fraureuther porcelain factory. Publisher: Deutsches Porzellanmuseum, 2003, ISBN 3-927793-81-7 .
- Mug, Hugo Emmanuel. In: Ernst-Günter Knüppel: Robert Diez. Sculpture between Romanticism and Art Nouveau . Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2009, p. 167.
Web links
- universitaetssammlungen.de
- Brief biographies of the artist medalists and private mints
- Johanna Emmerling: The history of the moulage collection at the Erlangen Dermatology Clinic. Chapter 6.1 (pp. 49–56)
Individual evidence
- ^ Archive of the Dresden University of Fine Arts
- ^ Moulages by Hugo Emanuel Becher in the university collections in Germany
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mug, Hugo Emanuel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mug, Hugo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 28, 1871 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 19, 1942 |
| Place of death | Munich |