Josef Baumgen

Josef Bäumgen (* 1714 in Düsseldorf ; † 1789 there ), also Johann Bäumchen and Johann Baumgärtgen , was a German sculptor.

Jan Wellem statue in Düsseldorf City Hall

Relief from the base of the statue of Elector Johann Wilhelm

He worked as a court sculptor in Saint Petersburg . Lambert Krahe appointed him professor of sculpture at the Electoral Art Academy in Düsseldorf . In 1774 Bäumgen was commissioned to create the four figures The Seasons for the Düsseldorf court garden . In 1977 Bäumgen was commissioned to produce twelve child statues representing the months of the year, a statue of the goddess Hebe and twelve “mythological heads” for the courtyard garden. In 1785, Bäumgen restored the grave of Duke Wilhelm von Jülich-Kleve-Berg in the Lambertus Church in Düsseldorf .

Works

• Apotheosis of Electress Elisabeth Auguste, 1771, marble, city museum
• Apotheosis of Elector Carl Theodor, 1771, marble, city museum
• Relief panels on the Jan Wellem monument in Düsseldorf City Hall , 1780, marble

literature

• Hermann Board : Bäumgen (sapling), Josef . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 2 : Antonio da Monza-Bassan . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1908, p. 350 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Heinz Peter: Nice old Düsseldorf. Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1960, 2nd edition, No. 69.
• Friedrich Schaarschmidt : On the history of Düsseldorf art, especially in the XIX. Century , Chapter II The Electoral Academy, 1902, p. 24

Web links

• State capital Düsseldorf - apotheosis of Elector Carl Theodor
• State capital Düsseldorf - Apotheosis of Electress Elisabeth Auguste

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ekkehard Mai : The German art academies in the 19th century. Artist training between tradition and avant-garde. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-412-20498-3 , p. 107.
2. ↑ Otto R. Redlich , Fr. Hillebrecht and Wesener: The court garden in Düsseldorf and the palace park in Benrath. , 1893, Historical Introduction, p. 6
3. ^ Friedrich Küch : Contributions to the history of art in Düsseldorf. Part I: The grave monument of Duke Wilhelm III. (V.) in the Lambertus Church. In: Contributions to the history of the Lower Rhine. Vol. 11, 1897 digitized, p. 71
4. ↑ Note: The spring and summer images are by the sculptor Cornelius Andreas Donett. Bäumgen is a misinformation from Schaarschmidt.