Johannes Friedrich Rogge
Johannes Friedrich Rogge (born April 5, 1898 in Berlin , † June 7, 1983 in Dresden ) was a German sculptor who specialized primarily in busts and monuments.
Life
He was a son of the academic painter Adalbert Rogge. From 1904 to 1916 he attended the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Berlin. He studied at the Universities of Berlin and Jena and was founded in 1921 in Jena with a dissertation on the concept of genius Schopenhauer Dr. phil. PhD.
From 1922 he turned to the fine arts and worked in the second half of the 1920s as a sculptor in the studio of the sculptor Paul Türpe in Berlin. In 1930 he first took part in the Great Berlin Art Exhibition , where he showed a statue of Mary Wigman .
In the time of National Socialism , Rogge created numerous “Führerbusters” and was represented at the Great German Art Exhibition in Munich with busts of Gerhart Hauptmann (1943) and Friedrich Nietzsche (1944). In 1943 his studio in Berlin was destroyed.
From 1946 he lived near Dresden. He became a member of the Kulturbund and published poems. In 1949 he created his Weimar Pushkin bust; Numerous orders for busts and monuments followed, including the first Lenin monument in the GDR in Königsee in 1951 .
In 1951 he received the house and studio of the late sculptor Paul Berger on the banks of the Elbe in Kleinzschachwitz . He was involved in the Dresden District Peace Council and the German Peace Council , appeared as a speaker at youth consecration celebrations and was a member of the central board of the Society for German-Soviet Friendship (Fine Arts Section), which enabled him to make several study trips to the Soviet Union. In 1962 he became a member of the LDPD .
He died in 1983 after a fall in St. Joseph-Stift (Dresden) ; his grave is in the Kleinzschachwitz cemetery. The Bauhaus-style house and studio were demolished in 2011 and replaced by a new building.
Works in public space
- 1949 Pushkin bust, Weimar
- 1951 Lenin statue, Königsee
- 1953/54 Stalin memorial, Riesa
- 1956 Heinrich Heine memorial relief for the memorial stone on the Brocken
- 1957 bust of Clara Zetkin, Clara-Zetkin-Park in Dresden
- 1957 Memorial Flag Bearer , Soviet Garrison Cemetery Dresden
- 1959 Memorial from now on together , Soviet honor grove in Gera
- 1965 Soviet memorial Kyritz
- 1967 Soviet Memorial (Stralsund)
Awards
- Badge of Honor of the LDPD
- DSF badge of honor in gold
- Patriotic Order of Merit in Bronze (1978)
Fonts
- as Johannes Rogge: Schopenhauer's concept of genius, presented and examined within the framework of his system. Jena, dissertation 1921.
- as Johannes Friedrich Rogge: Hymns to Berlin. Berlin: Arnold 1948.
literature
- Johannes Friedrich Rogge: plastic, drawings. (Exhibition catalog) Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig 1950.
- Rogge, Friedrich . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 92-93 .
- Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 493.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Database The Great German Art Exhibitions , accessed on August 29, 2013
- ^ Order: Art , information from the DHM on the Lenin Monument, accessed on August 29, 2013
- ↑ In the LDPD, which is kept in the Archives of Liberalism , Gummersbach, is u. a. a bronze relief by the long-time President of the People's Chamber, Johannes Dieckmann (LDPD), from 1964.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rogge, Johannes Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rogge, Johannes; Rogge, Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 5, 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 7, 1983 |
| Place of death | Dresden |