Hugo Linderath

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Hugo Linderath OFM (born June 14, 1828 in Gladbeck as Theodor Linderath ; † August 19, 1906 in Düsseldorf ) was a German Roman Catholic friar and sculptor .

Origin and education

Theodor Linde Rath was the second son of nine children of a long-established farming family in the peasantry Butendorf south of Gladbeck. His family called themselves Linderoth since the late 19th century ; you no longer preserved homestead was the Ackerstraße that on 6 July 1933, a few months after the beginning of Nazi rule , in Knickmann street has been renamed. Even before the official end of the Second World War - Gladbeck was occupied by Allied troops on March 29, 1945 - it was given the name Im Linnerott on May 3, 1945 in memory of the old farm and one of the town's important sons .

Linderath attended the elementary school in Gladbeck, where he stood out for his special inclination to drawing and carving . He resisted his parents' desire to learn farming and completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter . As an apprentice and journeyman he worked in Buer , Essen , Krefeld and Cologne , where he made the acquaintance of the “journeyman father” Adolph Kolping , who actively promoted his artistic talent. Thanks to Kolping's mediation, Linderath was able to attend drawing courses from master craftsman Franz Schmitz .

Activity as an artist

Maria Crescentia Höss , relief at the Kaufbeuren monastery with signature fr. Hugo Linderath

On September 19, 1854, Theodor Linderath entered the Saxon Franciscan Province of Saxonia in what was then the Franciscan monastery in Warendorf and was given the religious name Hugo . In Warendorf he created several works of art, including the cross in what is now the Old Monastery Garden , which is considered his first work. In 1860 Linderath was transferred to the Düsseldorf Franciscan monastery and attended the art academy there for several years , where he came into contact with the friends of the Nazarenes Ernst Deger and Franz Ittenbach . With this in mind, he endeavored to achieve a spiritual and religious penetration of his works and a harmonious completion of the form. He finally acquired the reputation of an important master through the creation of the high altar in the Düsseldorf Franciscan Church. Although the monastery was temporarily dissolved in the Kulturkampf - while the high altar was being erected - on August 15, 1875, Linderath received permission from the government to remain in the monastery as a private citizen until its completion. Later, in 1888, he traveled to Rome with his friend, painter Franz Thöne Linderath , where he found further inspiration for his art.

Works (date of origin not confirmed)

literature

  • Cajetan Schmitz: Brother Hugo Linderath, OFM , L. Schwann Düsseldorf 1906.
  • Adalbert Kahlmeyer: A Gladbeck artist. In: Gladbecker Blätter für Orts- und Heimatkunde , 5th year 1916, No. 1, p. 6 f.
  • Franz Dambeck: Linderath, Hugo . In: Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche , Freiburg 1957, ISBN 3-451-20756-7 , Vol. 6, Sp. 1063.
  • Rüdiger Winter: We remember Brother Hugo Linderoth, Ofm. In: Our city. Journal for information, advertising, cultural and homeland care , ed. from Verkehrsverein Gladbeck eV, Volume 4 (1976), No. 3, p. 6.
  • Walther Killy and Rudolf Vierhaus (eds.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 6, KG Saur Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-23166-0 , p. 405.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Georg Aschoff: From the Kulturkampf to the First World War. In: Joachim Schmiedl (Ed.): From Kulturkampf to the beginning of the 21st century. Paderborn 2010, pp. 23–287, here p. 142.
  2. ↑ a b wegebilder-warendorf.de
personal data
SURNAME Linderath, Hugo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Linderath, Theodor (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German friar and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Gladbeck
DATE OF DEATH August 19, 1906
Place of death Dusseldorf