Johann Joseph Imhoff (the younger)
Johann Joseph Imhoff the Younger (born March 18, 1796 in Cologne ; † July 6, 1880 Cologne-Deutz), was a German sculptor .
Life
Johann Joseph Imhoff comes from an important Cologne sculptor - ("picture baker") - family who produced eleven artists in five generations. His great-grandfather Alexander Wilhelm Imhoff (1689–1760) was a wood carver and his grandfather, who was also called Johann Joseph Imhoff (1739–1802), ran a clay baking workshop with his four sons, in which the works of art were made and then baked in the ovens or were burned. His father was the sculptor Peter Joseph Imhoff .
Johann Joseph Imhoff stayed in Paris in 1821/1822 and studied from 1824 to 1825 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . In 1828 he created a bust of the Oberpräsident Karl von Ingersleben , which, however, is considered lost. In the period from 1835/1836 he stayed in Italy and worked as a sculptor and modeller.
It is reported that in 1839 and 1848 he exhibited statues and reliefs of mythological and religious content in plaster of paris, marble and terracotta. In 1844 he made the funerary artwork for his father in the Melaten cemetery and he created, among other things, the central statue in the Protestant cemetery in Düren , a larger than life female figure with an hourglass and butterfly, and in 1849 the model for a tomb for Ferdinand Franz Wallraf in the Colonia wreaths his bust.
In 1857 he joined the Scherf studio in Kalk as a partner, which was then called Scherf & Imhoff . With this entry he may have shifted the focus of his work to the field of clay modeling, because he found the necessary working conditions and technical prerequisites at Scherf. There he was given his own area of work, in addition to the one that he retained in Cologne. This step was probably due to age, health and financial reasons.
It was a peculiarity that he ran his subject under the name of his father, Peter Joseph Imhoff, who was well known in many circles, and that his work was sometimes even given the name PJ Imhoff, like a mercantile company.
literature
- Johann Jakob Merlo : Imhoff . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, p. 56.
- Imhoff (family of sculptors) . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 18 : Hubatsch – Ingouf . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1925, p. 578 .
- Peter Bloch : Imhoff. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 154 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Ulrich S. Soénius , Jürgen Wilhelm (Ed.): Kölner Personenlexikon . Greven Verlag, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-7743-0400-0 , p. 607 .
- Arthur Fontaine: The religious terracotta portraits from the "art institutions" of the 19th century. 2nd Edition. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2016, ISBN 978-3-7392-2764-1 , p. 96 f. ( books.google.de ).
Web links
- Johann Joseph Imhoff the Younger in denkmalplatz.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lisa Jureczko: The Wallraf-Richartz-Grabdenkmal. 2016, accessed November 1, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Imhoff, Johann Joseph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Imhoff, Johann Joseph the Younger; Imhoff, Joh. Jos .; Imhoff, Johann Jos .; Imhoff, Johann Jos. the younger one |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 18, 1796 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 6, 1880 |
| Place of death | Cologne |