Johann Robert Korn

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Johann Robert Korn (born February 15, 1873 in Salzungen , † September 24, 1921 in Berlin ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Duke Ernst of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha monument with deer group, Oberhof from 1902
Left eagle at the west entrance of the Hohenzollernplatz underground station from 1913
Right eagle at the west entrance to the Hohenzollernplatz underground station from 1913

Johann Robert Korn was born in what is now Bad Salzungen as the son of master machinist Peter Gustav Korn. After the mother's early death, the family moved to Ohrdruf . Peter Gustav Korn married the widow Marie Phillipine Häfeberg (née Seydenfaden) there on November 25, 1882 . The stepmother brought her own children into the marriage. In 1883 the father Peter Gustav Korn was run as an innkeeper in Ohrdruf and the first half-brother Wilhelm Carl was born. Three more half-siblings followed by 1888. Peter Gustav Korn is described as a "very strict father" and his wife as a "loveless" stepmother.

Johann Robert Korn received early artistic support from his school drawing teacher and thus developed into a good draftsman. In 1887 he began an apprenticeship as a sculptor in the Ohrdrufer porcelain manufactory Baehr & Proeschild . During this time he got to know and love his future wife Elly John. The sow driver is said to have originated in Ohrdruf . The pig is said to have been the “model” of the family. One of the neighbors was the “sow driver” because no one in the family wanted to be available as a model.

From May 1, 1890, he studied at the Royal Art School in Berlin . In 1894 he continued his studies at the Berlin School of Applied Arts and in 1895 moved to the Academy of Fine Arts Berlin , where he was taught by Gerhard Janensch and Peter Breuer , among others . From 1896 Johann Robert Korn worked in his own studio in Berlin; it was here that his first independent works were created: the chimpanzee and the asian .

In 1899 he received an order from Ohrdruf to design a portrait relief on the tomb of the deceased mayor Julius Strenge . A first major artistic success of his work was in 1901 a second place in a competition for a monument to Ernst the Pious in front of the Gothaer Schloss Friedenstein . The following year he was commissioned to create a memorial for Duke Ernst of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, who had died in 1893 . The monument was unveiled in Oberhof at the end of 1902 and met with great applause from the public and art experts.

On November 4, 1902, Elly John and Johann Robert Korn married, a year later their daughter Katharina Susanna was born. In 1904 Johann Robert Korn won the Michael Beer Prize of the Berlin Academy and in autumn 1904 received a scholarship from the Prussian Academy of Arts in the Villa Strohl-Fern in Rome . The twins Pia and Romano were born in Rome in 1905. Son Romano died after a few days. Back in Berlin in 1906, the twins Ilse and Helmut were born. In 1908 his son Robert followed and in 1909 his son Wolfgang.

In 1910 he won a bronze medal at the First International Hunting Exhibition in Vienna and in 1911 he received a Silver State Medal for his bronze Diana riding a doe from the Salzburg Art Association . Since 1911 Johann Robert Korn was a member of the Association of Berlin Artists .

1915 Johann Robert Korn became the basic training for Fürstenwalde convened and then to Lemberg added, where he participated in a November 1916 in pleurisy ill. When he was transferred to a hospital in Poznan , he contracted tuberculosis . He could no longer be cured of tuberculosis; he served in various garrisons in the stage until the end of the First World War . Even after the war, Johann Robert Korn did not recover from his illness and although the director of the Berlin Zoo set up his own studio for him, he could not resume his artistic activity. On September 24, 1921, Johann Robert Korn died of complications from tuberculosis.

Works (selection)

Exhibitions

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g ohrdruf.de - sculptor Johann Robert Korn ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on August 29, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ohrdruf.de
  2. ↑ auktionshaus-wendl.com: Cat.Nr .: 3063 ("Schweinetreiberin") , accessed on August 30, 2015
  3. ↑ a b johann-robert-korn.de , accessed on August 30, 2015
  4. ↑ arsmundi.de:Johann Robert Korn: Sculpture "Chimpanzee" (1896), version in stone , accessed on August 30, 2015
  5. ↑ ebay: Treasure Chest Ratingen - Heubach Monkey Figure Sitting Chimpanzee , accessed on August 30, 2015
  6. ↑ dhm.de: Bembe - Portrait Study of a Kalmuck , accessed on August 30, 2015
  7. ↑ bildindex.de: Deer with two fawns , accessed on August 30, 2015
  8. ↑ bildhauerei-in-berlin.de: Rehgruppe, 1910, Robert Korn ( Memento of the original from February 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 30, 2015  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bildhauerei-in-berlin.de
  9. ↑ berlin.friedparks.de: Friedpark: Parkfriedhof Lichterfelde Memorial Site Wilhelm August Forthmann , accessed on August 30, 2015
  10. ↑ taz.de: Deer on the wrong track from September 17, 2013 , accessed on August 30, 2015
  11. ↑ johann-robert-korn.de: Neustadter Str Poliklinik.JPG , accessed on August 30, 2015
  12. ↑ johann-robert-korn.de: Photo Dr. Gotz.JPG , accessed August 30, 2015
  13. ↑ emuseum.duesseldorf.de: Deer with Kitz , accessed on August 30, 2015
  14. ↑ auktionshaus-wendl.com: Cat.No .: 3079 (group of deer and roe buck) , accessed on August 30, 2015
  15. ↑ bildhauerei-in-berlin.de:Rothirsch, 1910, Robert Korn ( memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 30, 2015  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bildhauerei-in-berlin.de
  16. ↑ bildhauerei-in-berlin.de: Adler, 1913 Robert Korn ( memento from August 30, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on August 30, 2015
  17. ↑ harderwijk.kunstwacht.nl: Kunstenaar: Johann Robert Korn, Straatnaam: Havendam 56, in de hal, Gemeentehuis , accessed on August 30, 2015
  18. ↑ johann-robert-korn.de: Grosse_Berliner_Kunstausstellung.pdf (PDF), accessed on August 30, 2015
  19. ↑ johann-robert-korn.de: Exhibitions , accessed on August 30, 2015

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personal data
SURNAME Korn, Johann Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Korn, Robert; Korn, JR
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH bad Salzungen
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 1921
Place of death Berlin