Johannes Hoffmann (sculptor)
Heinrich Bernhard Johannes Hoffmann (born July 17, 1844 in Schleswig , † June 16, 1920 in Rome or June 20, 1920 in Copenhagen ) was a Danish sculptor and diplomat.
Life
Hoffmann was the son of master tailor Andreas Martin Hoffmann and his wife Catharina Wilhelmine (née Jansen). As a young man he went to Copenhagen to learn sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts and from 1862 under the guidance of Herman Wilhelm Bissen in his workshop and to continue his education as an artist. From 1863 he attended the Royal Danish Academy of Art and in 1866 won the small gold medal for the Odysseus fight with the stag . In 1874 and 1875 he received travel grants from the academy. He went to Italy, where Rome became the center of his life. He was a representative of pure neoclassicism and realism.
From 1895 to 1903 he was appointed Danish consul in Rome.
In 1865 he showed his statue of Chancellor Peder Schumacher Griffenfeld for the first time in an exhibition of the academy in Charlottenborg Palace . He made reliefs, busts and statues. In the public space there are two statues of him at Frederik's Church in Copenhagen, that of Benedict of Nursia and that of Elijah . In 1892 he exhibited two marble statues, one depicting Psyche and the other a young girl.
On September 2, 1877 he married Anna Louise (née Müffelmann, April 20, 1854 in Korsør - June 5, 1919 in Rome) an adopted daughter of the chief physician Emil Frederik Müffelmann and Thora Marie (née Eckert).
Works
- 1865: Peder Griffenfeld - (plaster statue)
- 1866: Odysseus fighting the stag (small gold medal)
- 1872: Vesta (bronze for Count Moltke-Huitfeldt)
- 1875: Count and Countess Dannemand (busts)
- 1876, 1878 and 1892: Psyche (marble statue)
- 1892: Young girl tying a ribbon in her hair (multicolored marble)
- 1892: Elijah and Benedict of Nursia (statues at Frederik's Church in Copenhagen)
- 1901: Diana (statuette)
He made other busts of, among others, F. Fabricius, Wolfgang Helbig (1891), Henrik Ibsen (marble bust, Royal Theater); Lieutenant General Chr. Thomsen (1894).
literature
- Philipp Weilbach: Hoffmann, Henrich Bernhard Martin Johannes . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 7 : I. Hansen – Holmsted . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1893, p. 491 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
- Hoffmann, Johannes . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 17 : Heubel – Hubard . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1924, p. 263 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Jens Peter Munk: Johannes Hoffmann . In: Weilbach's artist dictionary . S. 348-349 ( kulturarv.dk ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hoffmann, Johannes |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hoffmann, Heinrich Bernhard Martin Johannes (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish sculptor and diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 17, 1844 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schleswig |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 20, 1920 |
| Place of death | Copenhagen |