Josef Tüshaus

Josef Tüshaus (also Joseph Tüshaus, born July 7, 1851 in Münster , † October 21, 1901 in Düsseldorf ), was a German painter and sculptor .

Life

Tüshaus came to the Royal Art Academy in Düsseldorf at a young age, in October 1874, and was a student of August Wittig . His classmate and long-time friend was the sculptor Karl Janssen . From December 1882 to 1885 he stayed with him in Rome . Together they created the fountain sculpture Father Rhine and his daughters in front of the Provincial Estates House in Düsseldorf until 1897 , which was erected in memory of the visit of the German imperial couple in Düsseldorf in 1884. Tüshaus also made the statue of Helmuth von Moltkes for the Moltkedenkmal in Düsseldorf. Like Janssen, he was a member of the Malkasten artists' association .

The architect Bernhard Tüshaus (1846–1909) was a cousin of the sculptor. Another relative was the painter Fritz Tüshaus from Münster.

Works (selection)

Statue of Helmuth von Moltkes from the Moltkedenkmal in Düsseldorf

• Moltkedenkmal , Düsseldorf (1901)
• Fountain sculpture Father Rhine and his daughters , Düsseldorf (1897)
• Monument to Princess Stephanie von Hohenzollern , Düsseldorf, renewed by Tüshaus in 1890
• Marble statue of Saint Sebastian , National Gallery, Berlin
• Tied up Amazon
• Allegory of Electric Light (1902, Girardet Collection in Essen)

literature

• Friedrich Schaarschmidt : On the history of Düsseldorf art, especially in the XIX. Century . Verlag des Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf 1902, p. 380–383 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
• Anton Bettelheim (Hrsg.): Biographisches Jahrbuch and German Nekrolog . Volume 6. Reimer, Berlin 1904, list of dead p. 109 * ( Mention  - Internet Archive ).
• Tüshaus, Josef . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 33 : Theodotos vacation . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1939, p. 475 .

Remarks

1. ↑ duesseldorf.de