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Hugo Player, 1910
Players at work on the Victoria statue

Hugo Spieler (born February 28, 1854 in Berlin , † February 18, 1922 in Dresden ; full name: Hugo Carl Justus Spieler ) was a German sculptor and medalist .

Life

Player was born in Berlin as the third child of the merchant and milk wholesaler Carl Johann Spieler and his wife Johanna Emilie. His father died three months before he was born at the age of 39 after the family assets invested in petroleum were lost due to the lifting of internal tariffs in 1853 and the family became impoverished. Shortly after Spieler's birth, the mother and her three children moved to live with their parents in Wilsnack in Prignitz . There he attended elementary school from 1861 to 1867; in addition, he took private lessons in Latin, biology, and other subjects. He then learned the profession of wood carver in a Berlin furniture factory; later he worked there as a journeyman. During his apprenticeship he attended evening and Sunday school at the Berlin Museum of Applied Arts to learn how to model. Then he found short jobs with various stucco sculptors.

In 1875 he came to Munich , where he first worked in various studios and then attended the Royal School of Applied Arts for five semesters . In October 1880 he began studying sculpture for nine semesters at the Munich Art Academy . His teachers included the sculptor Max von Widnmann . Player's compositions “Penitent Magdalena” and “Wounded Philoctetes” were awarded first prizes by the academy.

After completing his studies, he moved to Dresden in 1885, where he took up a position at the Royal Saxon School of Applied Arts as a teacher for “figurative modeling” on October 1st . His students there included Otto Pilz and Edmund Götz . In about 1891, Player was awarded the professorial title.

On April 18, 1891, he married Margarethe Conradi, 17 years his junior, in the Wunderblutkirche in his hometown of Wilsnack. This marriage resulted in four children: Hubert (1892–1976), Gertraude (1893–1900), Günther (1898–1973) and Erika (1909–1923).

After the death of his daughter Gertraude in 1900, the family's tomb was erected in the Johannisfriedhof in Dresden-Tolkewitz . In 1919, at the age of 65, he left the faculty of the Kunstgewerbeschule and went into retirement. He died on February 18, 1922 in Dresden and was buried in the family grave.

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Viktoriahaus with statue of Hugo Spieler
  • In 1888, along with Julius Schurig, at the instigation of the Dresden Art Association, he restored the crucifixion group (removal of Christ from the cross) at the grave of Balthasar Permoser in the Old Catholic Cemetery .
  • Player created the war memorial in his hometown of Wilsnack around 1891.
  • The four-meter-high statue of Victoria , which crowned the gable of the Viktoriahaus built by the Dresden architects William Lossow and Hermann Viehweger in 1891–1892, was one of the most important works by Player . The residential and commercial building was destroyed in the air raids on Dresden in February 1945.
  • In 1897, Spieler modeled an extensive series of traditional costumes from all over Germany for the Meissen porcelain factory . These included the five only Sorbian traditional costumes ever made by the manufactory: Lausitzer Wendin in his Sunday best , Wendish wedding bitter , Wendish churchgoer , Wendish linseed oil peddler and Wendin .
  • In 1898 he modeled a plaque that Sr. Maj. Presented to King Albert of Saxony for the 25th anniversary of the Dresden Arts and Crafts Association, which was cast in bronze by Pirnes & Franz.
  • In 1902 he was involved in the manufacture of the Müllerbrunnen on the main square of the Dresden suburb of Plauen.

Trivia

The friends of the Spieler family included the painter Richard von Hagn and the royal Saxon court photographer Emil Römmler . Player was a member of the St. John's Lodge "Zum Goldenen Kreuz", founded in 1894 by the Masonic Order.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Player, Hugo . In: Matriculation database of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich (ed.): Matriculation book . tape 2: 1841-1884 , 1884, urn : NBN: de: bvb: 12 bsb00004661-2 ( matrikel.adbk.de , digitale-sammlungen.de ).
  2. ↑ Hans Oskar Beschorner: Permoser studies . Book printer of Wilhelm and Bertha v. Baensch Foundation, Dresden 1913, p. 76 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  3. ↑ Small messages . In: Karl Hoffacker (Ed.): Kunstgewerbeblatt . New episode, 10th year. EA Seemann, Leipzig 1885, p. 100 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  4. ^ Plaque: King Albert of Saxony. Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, accessed on April 19, 2020 .
  5. ^ Paul Schumann: Dresden . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1909, p. 296 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  6. ^ Heinz Quinger: Dresden and surroundings: history, art and culture of the Saxon capital . DuMont Reiseverlag, 1999, ISBN 978-3-7701-4028-2 , p. 235–236 ( books.google.de - reading sample).
personal data
SURNAME Player, Hugo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Player, Hugo Carl Justus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 1922
Place of death Dresden