Hugo Rheinhold

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Hugo Rheinhold

Wolfgang Hugo Rheinhold (born March 26, 1853 in Oberlahnstein ; † October 2, 1900 in Berlin ) was a German sculptor . His best-known work is the monkey with a skull .

Life

Hugo Rheinhold first attended school in Koblenz . At the age of 21 he went to the United States as a trader , where he lived in San Francisco from 1874 to 1879 ; in 1879 he moved to Hamburg . In the following year he married his childhood sweetheart Emma Levy from Cologne , who died in 1882, after a year and a half of marriage. Emma's death changed Rheinhold's life. He sold his business and moved to Berlin to study philosophy at the Friedrich-Wilhelms University (now the Humboldt University of Berlin ). In 1886 he was a student of the sculptors Ernst Herter and Max Kruse , before he officially enrolled as a student at the Berlin Academy of the Arts (1888-1892).

Works

Rheinhold produced a number of noted works in a short period of life. These include the "Reading Monks", a bust of the socialist August Bebel , and "Am weg" (1896). Rheinhold preserved his Jewish legacy, worked in the German-Israelitic Association of Communities and created the sculpture "The Fighters" as a protest against anti-Semitism . Rheinhold's last work “Well grotto with two water deities” was exhibited shortly before his death in 1900. Today his most famous work is the monkey with a skull .

  • Monkey with skull
    1893

  • On the way
    1894

  • Sold out
    1899

  • Fountain group
    1900

  • Reading monks
    1900

literature

  • Ilse Krumpöck: The sculptures in the Army History Museum. Vienna 2004, p. 142 f.
  • Morgan, R., & Moore, A. Hugo Rheinhold's monkey. Boston Medical Library . (Website). December 1, 1998. Retrieved December 1, 2008.
  • Richter, J., & Schmetzke, A. (2007). Hugo Rheinhold's philosophizing monkey — a modern Owl of the Minerva. NTM-International Journal of History and Ethics of Natural Sciences, Technology and Medicine, 15 (2), 81-97.
  • Schmetzke, A. Other Sculptures by Hugo Rheinhold. Hugo Rheinhold ... and his Philosophizing Monkey . (Website). Library, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. December 8, 1999, last revised November 6, 2008. Retrieved December 1, 2008.
  • Singer, I., & Mannheimer, S. (1901-1906). Rheinhold, Hugo. In The Jewish Encyclopedia (pp. 399-400). New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
  • Adolph Donath : Hugo Reinhold . In: East and West . VII (1907) H. 10, p. 610ff. (Digitized version)

Web links

Commons : Hugo Rheinhold  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Richter & Schmetzke, p. 90.
  2. ↑ a b Singer & Mannheimer, p. 399
  3. ^ Morgan & Moore
  4. ↑ Schmetzke
personal data
SURNAME Rheinhold, Hugo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rheinhold, Wolfgang Hugo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberlahnstein
DATE OF DEATH October 2, 1900
Place of death Berlin