Josef Rauch (sculptor)

Sculptures of hunted animals on the balustrade of the fairy tale fountain in Volkspark Friedrichshain

Allegories of the civic virtues at the old town house in Berlin

Josef Rauch (* 1868 in Baden-Baden ; † February 12, 1921 in Berlin ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Josef Rauch studied at the Munich Academy . From 1900 he carried out building sculptures for various buildings in Berlin. These included, for example, the facade figures for the Wertheim department store on Leipziger Platz on behalf of Alfred Messel . For the Berlin city planner Hermann Blankenstein and his successor Ludwig Hoffmann , he created sculptures for various school buildings. Hoffmann also commissioned him with sculptures for the town house and for the fairy tale fountain in the Friedrichshain park . From 1919 Rauch taught architectural sculpture at the Technical University of Charlottenburg .

Works

• 1896–1897: Participation in the facade figures at the Wertheim department store , Leipziger Strasse / Leipziger Platz in Berlin-Mitte (destroyed)
• 1900 Fountain at the Bavarian National Museum , Munich
• 1902–1911: Architectural sculptures and allegories of civic virtues on the town hall in Berlin-Mitte
• 1902–1913: Building sculpture on the former 280th and 293rd community school (today 6th elementary school), Pettenkoferstraße 20–24 in Berlin
• 1904–1906: Reliefs in the roofing of the windows of the former Andreas Realgymnasium , Koppenstrasse 76 in Berlin-Friedrichshain
• 1905–1909: Building sculpture and statue of Fortuna made of copper on the town hall tower for the Neukölln town hall , Karl-Marx-Straße 83–85 in Berlin-Neukölln
• 1904–1905: Building sculpture on the former 243rd and 267th community school (now 4th elementary school), Hausburgstrasse 20 in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg
• 1906–1907: Building sculpture at the Kaiserin-Auguste-Viktoria-Infant home (today ESCP Europe Business School Berlin ), Heubnerweg 7 in Berlin-Charlottenburg
• 1907–1908: three- dimensional jewelry on the parapet strips on the extension of the former clothing store V. Manheimer , Jägerstrasse 33 / Oberwallstrasse in Berlin-Mitte
• 1907-09: Building sculpture on the GASAG office building
• 1909–1911: Reliefs on the facade of the Lessing-Gymnasium (Berlin)
• 1910–1911: Building sculpture at the former technical and advanced training school (today adult education center), Linienstraße 162 in Berlin-Mitte
• 1910: Sculpture and fountain decorations in the hospital garden of the former Buch convalescent home (today Buch Clinic) together with Ignatius Taschner and Georg Wrba , Wiltbergstrasse 50–90 in Berlin-Buch
• 1912: Wall grave (B 5–6) for the architect Julius Habicht (1874–1912), in the cemetery in Berlin-Schmargendorf
• 1913–1914: marble sculptures of hunted animals on the balustrade of the fairy tale fountain in Volkspark Friedrichshain in Berlin-Friedrichshain

Web links

Commons : Josef Rauch  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Josef Rauch in the catalog of the German National Library