James Linden

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jakobus Linden (born March 28, 1886 in Poppelsdorf ; † March 7, 1950 in Bonn ) was a German sculptor.

Life

Linden's father was a ceramist at the electoral porcelain factory in Poppelsdorf. After studying in Karlsruhe and Munich , Linden went to Cologne , where he worked in the studio of his teacher Karl Menser . Together with Menser, he designed the figure decorations at the Cologne Higher Regional Court (Reichenspergerplatz). Linden followed his teacher to Bonn (Menser had been appointed as an academic drawing teacher at the University of Bonn ). In 1919 Linden went freelance as a sculptor in Poppelsdorf. He was involved in the Bonn artist association . Linden's specialty were memorials commemorating the fallen in World War I , sacred sculptures and portrait busts (e.g. Trude Hesterberg , Gert Fröbe , Gerhard Fieseler , Friedrich Schiller , Gerhart Hauptmann , Ludwig van Beethoven ). Shortly before his death, Bonn commissioned Linden to restore the little bridge man , a figure on the Beueler Rheinbrücke ( Kennedybrücke ) damaged in World War II . Linden is buried in the Poppelsdorf cemetery . If you want to assign Linden's work to a style, it is most likely one between realism and expressionism (like Barlach ). Linden was into the figurative, up to the handicraft. He did not see himself as an innovator.

Work (selection)

  • Justitia (before 1911, together with Menser) at the Cologne Higher Regional Court
  • Angels scattering roses (1928) on the grave of the Metzmacher family in the Poppelsdorf cemetery
  • Sebastian (1929), Fallen Mark in Stieldorf (demolished before 1960)
  • Lowered flag (1930), fallen mark for German soldiers of Jewish faith in the Jewish cemetery in Bonn (Augustusring / Römerstrasse)
  • Crucifix (1930), bronze figure, private collection
  • Schutzmantelmadonna (1931), Fallen Mark in Swisttal-Buschhoven
  • Blessing Christ (1940s), artificial stone figure , since 1945 in the Bornheim / Alfter border area below Heimatblick ( Friedensweg Alfter-Roisdorf )
  • Way of the Cross (1944–1946) in the Herz-Jesu-Kirche Rheine
  • Christ and Judas (1945), Herz-Jesu-Kirche Rheine
  • Beethoven (1949), stone bust, now in Tokyo
  • Pietà (1949) on Linden's grave in Bonn-Poppelsdorf
  • Fallen times in Bornheim-Hemmerich
  • Girl with a shell , Gangolfstrasse in Bonn
  • Christ relief on the grave of the Schaden family in Bornheim-Roisdorf
  • Escape to Egypt , plastic owned by the Heuss family
  • Daniel in the lions' den , bronze sculpture

Web links

Commons : Jakobus Linden  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ not yet part of Bonn at the time
  2. ↑ Founded in 1755, later Ludwig Wessel porcelain and stoneware factory
  3. ↑ * July 19, 1872 in Cologne, † November 10, 1929 in Bonn. Menser created u. a. the figures on the portal of the former Rhineland Chamber of Agriculture in Bonn's Weststadt (Endenicher Allee), he designed the Rhöndorfer Waldfriedhof , created the relief on the grave of the composer Caspar Joseph Brambach in the Poppelsdorf cemetery and the plastic jewelry on the grave of the composer Louis Lacombe in the cemetery Père Lachaise
  4. ↑ Founded in 1912 by the painter Carl Nonn , dissolved by the Nazis in 1933
  5. ^ 1960 damaged by vandalism and replaced by a copy
  6. ↑ according to a letter from the municipality to the Rhenish advice center for war honor dated August 17, 1931
personal data
SURNAME Linden, James
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Poppelsdorf
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1950
Place of death Bonn