Josef Limburg

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Josef Limburg

Josef Limburg (born July 10, 1874 in Hanau , † December 20, 1955 in Berlin-Charlottenburg ) was a German sculptor and medalist .

Life

Josef Limburg attended the Royal Drawing Academy in Hanau until 1894 . From 1894 to 1895 he was a student of Victor Tilgner in Vienna, from 1895 to 1900 he studied with Anton von Werner and Gerhard Janensch at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin. In 1923 he bought a villa on Bahnhofstrasse in Berlin-Lichterfelde . He lived there until the end of his life. After his death in 1955 until around 1965 (demolition of the villa and rebuilding), the Josef Limburg Memorial was temporarily located there. The whereabouts of the sculptures on display is unclear. His grave is in the old cemetery of the St. Hedwig cathedral parish .

Works

Limburg received the Rome Prize of the Berlin Academy of the Arts and subsequently stayed in Rome for two years. There he created a colossal bust of Pope Gregory XIII. for the Collegium Germanicum .

Well-known works by him are the bronze statues of Mary, Joseph and the angels in the Herz-Jesu-Kirche in Berlin as well as the two stone angels at the entrance of the old St. Hedwig cemetery in Berlin, where he was buried. The almost life-size bronze sculpture (half-relief) of the monument to the fallen of the former Leib-Kürassier Regiment No. 1 (Silesian) in Breslau, Silesia (today Wrocław, Poland), which was inaugurated in July 1924 and handed over to the city, was also known. The whereabouts of the monument sculpture is unclear; the bronze miniature design submitted for the tender is privately owned.

  • Entrance to the cemetery with the two angels

  • Angels in detail

  • Depiction of care for a sick person at the former miners' union building in Gleiwitz

  • Depiction of care for an old man at the former miners' union building in Gleiwitz

  • Depiction of four workers above the portal to the former Ballerstrem property administration in Gleiwitz

  • Statue awakening girl in the Stadtpark Steglitz in Berlin

bibliography

Limburg wrote the following works:

  • Josef Limburg and his sculptures . Wolter, 1914.
  • Christian sculptures and diary sheets from the creative period. Society for Christian Art, 1927.

Web links

Commons : Josef Limburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ artist. Prof. Josef Limburg. German Society for Medal Art, accessed on January 6, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Hinnerk Dreppenstedt, Klaus Esche (Ed.): All of Berlin. Walks through the capital. Nicolai'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-87584-050-X , p. 327.
  3. ↑ Limburg's tombstone in St. Hedwig
  4. ↑ Comradeship of former body cuirassiers (ed.): Report on the memorial ceremony on July 12, 13 and 14, 1924 . Self-published, 1924.
  5. ^ Josef Limburg: Awakening girl . ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2013 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. bildhauerei-in-berlin.de, accessed on January 21, 2014.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bildhauerei-in-berlin.de
personal data
SURNAME Limburg, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and medalist
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanau
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1955
Place of death Berlin-Charlottenburg