Johannes Knubel

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Pallas Athene by Johannes Knubel in Düsseldorf
Sandstone monkey in Düsseldorf Zoo
“Die Sitzende” (the seated woman) for the Reich Exhibition of Creative People in the Nordpark Düsseldorf
Facade of today's Galeria Kaufhof in Wuppertal-Elberfeld
Facade with plastic jewelry by Knubel at the Galeria Kaufhof in Cologne
Main portal of Tietz department store, Düsseldorf (photo 1913)
At work on the Düsseldorf war landmark of the Bergisches Löwen . Advanced state of elaboration in wood. Photo Julius Söhn (1915)
Knubels' house

Johannes Knubel (born March 6, 1877 in Münster ; † July 3, 1949 in Düsseldorf ) was a German sculptor who was mainly known through his work on various department store facades in Düsseldorf (1909), Elberfeld (1912) and Cologne (1914) got known.

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Johannes Knubel was one of nine children of a railroad worker. Two of his brothers were Bernard , a cyclist and participant in the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896 , and Anton , 20 years his senior , also a cyclist and later aviation pioneer .

Knubel received his training in Berlin, Breslau and Munich. He traveled to Italy and settled in Düsseldorf around 1900. In Düsseldorf he mainly created building sculptures and worked closely with well-known architects such as Joseph Maria Olbrich and Wilhelm Kreis . Like Kreis, Johannes Knubel taught at the Düsseldorf School of Applied Arts , which was transferred to the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 1919 and where he worked as a professor from 1920. This collaboration resulted in, among other things, his sculptural work on Leonhard Tietz's department stores , including the house on Heinrich-Heine-Allee .

1905–1906 he had a house built by the Düsseldorf architects Rudolf Wilhelm Verheyen and Julius Stobbe for himself and his family in Düsseldorf-Oberkassel on the Wildenbruchstrasse 28 property , which has been a listed building since 1988 . In this there was a light shaft that Knubel used to transport the stone blocks from his yard workshop (today No. 28a) to the studio in the attic with the help of a pulley system.

From 1907 to 1941 Knubel was represented with numerous portraits and animal sculptures as well as mostly female nudes at the major art exhibitions in Düsseldorf, Vienna, Munich, Berlin and Dresden. He had a decisive influence on the cityscape of Düsseldorf through his sculptures; best known is the golden Pallas Athene . It used to stand in front of the Tonhalle and was removed by the National Socialists in 1933 as " degenerate ". Today the Pallas Athene stands on the Hofgarten ramp, the driveway to the Oberkasseler Bridge , with a view of the Düsseldorf Art Academy .

Knubel was a member of the artists' association Malkasten and appeared, among other things, in cabaret shows, in 1929 with the Morphium Club , together with Rudolf Brüning , Max Clarenbach , Richard Gessner , Werner Peiner , Wilhelm Schmurr and Hans Seyppel .

In the autumn of 1915, Knubel created a wooden statue of the Bergischer Löwen , which was erected on Graf-Adolf-Platz as a "symbol of war". Citizens there could hammer in a nail for a fee and thus express their solidarity with the German Reich and its soldiers ( war nails ). In 1934 the lion, which had been badly attacked by the weather, was broken off, and by 1937 Knubel created a new one out of teak. The renewed sculpture was badly damaged in World War II and then cleared away. The cast metal head mask of the original lion and the head of the second are in the Düsseldorf City Museum.

In 1932 he received third prize in the competition for a Heinrich Heine monument in Düsseldorf .

Johannes Knubel was on the board of directors of the German Art Exhibition in Düsseldorf from 1926 and in 1933 he became chairman of the Niederrhein und Bergisch-Land working group of the German Werkbund . As such, he submitted a memorandum to the Nazi cultural politician Hans Hinkel on April 27, 1933 on the reorganization of the German Werkbund.

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  • 1900: four sandstone stair posts for the Hall of Fame in (Wuppertal-) Barmen
  • 1905: Sandstone sculpture "Monkey" since 1953 in the Düsseldorf Zoological Garden
  • 1908: Joseph Maria Olbrich's death mask
  • 1910: Competition draft for a Bismarck national monument on the Elisenhöhe near Bingerbrück (not awarded a prize)
  • 1909: Plastic decoration of the facade of the Tietz department store in Düsseldorf
  • 1912: sculptural decoration of the facade of the Tietz department store in Elberfeld
  • 1913: Sculpture (seated) on the facade of the Tietz department store in Chemnitz
  • 1914: Plastic decoration of the facade of the Tietz department store in Cologne
  • 1915: Wooden sculpture Bergischer Löwe in Düsseldorf, Königsallee (removed in March 1934)
  • 1921: Relief at the Alsberg department store in Bochum
  • 1923: six stone groups of figures on the portal of the Alsberg department store in Dresden
  • 1926: gilded bronze statue "Pallas Athene" at the Tonhalle , Düsseldorf-Pempelfort
  • 1927: Memorial for those who died in the First World War from the Siegburg teachers' college in the north cemetery in Siegburg
  • 1927: Lion monument in Bad Honnef as a memorial for those killed in the First World War of the Rhenish foot artillery regiment No. 8
  • 1930 and 1932: portrait busts of Gustav and Hermine Nahrhaft in the mausoleum of the Nahrhaft family on the Düsseldorf North Cemetery, field 50
  • 1931: Relief at the main entrance of the Shell house in Hamburg (architect: Rudolf Brüning )
  • 1935: Stone relief "Blitzschleuderer" at the main post office in Wuppertal-Elberfeld, Morianstrasse
  • 1937: Wooden sculpture Bergischer Löwe in Düsseldorf, Königsallee (replacement for the lion removed in 1934; cleared in 1942 after bomb damage)
  • 1937: Limestone sculpture “Die Sitzende” in the north park in Düsseldorf , as part of the Reich Exhibition Creative People
  • 1940: male figure made of shell limestone on the grounds of the Diedenhofen barracks in Wuppertal. Today this figure is on the site of the Bergische Kaserne Düsseldorf (it is slightly damaged and entered as a monument in the Wuppertal monument list no. 1358).

literature

Web links

Commons : Johannes Knubel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Ruth Meyer-Kahrweg : Monuments, fountains and sculptures in Wuppertal. (Appendix with biographies of the participating artists). Wuppertal 1991, ISBN 3-87093-058-6 .
  2. ↑ When the wheels learned to turn on lwl.org  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 506 kB)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.lwl.org  
  3. ↑ Bernd Haunfelder: Bernard Knubel Motor Vehicles - A Chronicle. Münster 1995, p. 12.
  4. ^ Max Creutz: Joseph M. Olbrich; the Tietz department store in Düsseldorf . E. Wasmuth, Berlin 1909, p. 11–14 , images on pp. 31–39 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  5. ↑ Wildenbruchstrasse 28 in the monument list of the state capital Düsseldorf at the Institute for Monument Protection and Preservation
  6. ^ Heide-Ines Willner: Oberkassel. The former home of the sculptor Johannes Knubel (1877–1949) is being modernized. In: Rheinische Post. June 18, 2015 (accessed March 28, 2016).
  7. ↑ malkasten.org (PDF).
  8. ↑ my-duesseldorf.info ( Memento of the original from May 2, 2012 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.my-duesseldorf.info
  9. ^ Gerhard Schneider: In iron time. War symbols in the First World War. A catalog. Schwalbach (Taunus) 2013, p. 189 f. (with notes on the incorrect dating to 1916 in other literature).
  10. ↑ Ulrike Meier-Hoffstede: Heine monuments.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Sculpture and Power. Figurative sculpture in Germany in the 30s and 40s. (Exhibition catalog) Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf 1984, p. 141 ff.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / kunst.gymszbad.de  
  11. ↑ Federal Archives : Chancellery Rosenberg NS 8/136 . - See Joan Campbell: The German Werkbund. The Politics of Reform in the Applied Arts. Princeton Legacy Library, Princeton University Press, ISBN 978-1-4008-6762-2 , p. 250 (reading sample, books.google.de ).
  12. ^ Sculpture "Affe" by Johannes Knubel, made in 1905 and given as a gift to the Löbbecke Museum in 1953 by Arthur Hauth (wine merchant). ( duesseldorf.de , the digital art and culture archive Düsseldorf).
  13. ↑ Sylvia Ferino-Pagden (ed.): We are mask. Exhibition catalog, Museum für Völkerkunde, Vienna 2009, p. 95, cat.-no. 1.25.
  14. ↑ Max Schmid (ed.): One hundred designs from the competition for the Bismarck National Monument on the Elisenhöhe near Bingerbrück-Bingen. Düsseldorfer Verlagsanstalt, Düsseldorf 1911. ( Fig. 106, Ragusa (223) Johannes Knubel-Düsseldorf ).
  15. ^ Max Creutz : The Tietz department store in Düsseldorf. Wasmuth, Berlin 1909.
  16. ^ Jörn Richter: Das Tietz Chemnitz. Verlag Heimatland Sachsen, Chemnitz 2004, ISBN 3-910186-48-3 , p. 80.
  17. ↑ artibeau.de
  18. ↑ das-neue-dresden.de department store Alsberg Dresden.
  19. ↑ fotos-von-duesseldorf.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.fotos-von-duesseldorf.de  
  20. ↑ stadtarchiv-siegburg.de .
  21. ^ I. Zacher, H. Hahn: The interior design of the entrance hall of the mausoleum of the Nahrhaft family on the Düsseldorf North Cemetery. In: Preservation of monuments in the Rhineland ( ISSN  0177-2619 ), 7th year 1990, issue 3.
  22. ↑ Knubel, Johannes . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 73 .
  23. ↑ duesseldorf.de
  24. ↑ male figure by Johannes Knubel, as of July 1, 2013 , on Denkmal-Wuppertal.de, accessed on June 15, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Knubel, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster
DATE OF DEATH July 3, 1949
Place of death Dusseldorf