Joseph Kaffsack

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Joseph Kaffsack (born October 21, 1850 in Regensburg , † September 7, 1890 in Berlin ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Cast of the Attika group at the Leipzig University Library, 2011
The original in the library courtyard, 2011

Joseph Kaffsack was the son of a printer. He attended the Latin and trade schools in Regensburg. He soon gave up his desire to become a watchmaker. Instead, following his inclination, he came to sculpture through the arts and crafts . In 1874 he carried out restoration work in the Marienkirche in Lübeck . In the same year a scholarship enabled him to study at the Dresden Art Academy . He received his training as a sculptor here from Ernst Hähnel (1811-1891).

After graduating, he went to Berlin in 1880. It was here that his first major work was created, a three-meter-high statue "Lubecca", which was a plaster model of the city of Lübeck. A bronze casting of it and an installation in public space were denied to him. However, this work opened the way to further assignments.

Over the next few years he created a number of decorative works for private and public buildings, especially for Leipzig institutions. One of Kaffsack's most famous works is the monument to Wilhelm I and Friedrich III, unveiled on October 18, 1890 . at the Giebichenstein in Halle . He used the grown rock as a base and background for the colossal figure of the Archangel Michael made of white marble , who places his sword on the slain dragon and holds a palm branch over the bronze shield decorated with relief images of the two emperors . In addition to six large figures on the former main post office , he created the group “Fame and Truth Erringt der Seeker” in Leipzig for the university library, which has been a cast crowning the building since 2009 and has been placed in its courtyard as a damaged original.

Joseph Kaffsack drowned, almost 40 years old, on a boat trip on the Berlin Wannsee .

Works (selection)

  • Former imperial monument at Giebichenstein , Halle (Saale)

  • Resurrection alabaster relief

  • Statue post on the former main post office in Leipzig

  • Statue telegraphy on the former main post office in Leipzig

  • Oriental figures

  • Arabic musician with lute

  • Signature on the Arabic musician

  • Relief grave slab of the Koehler family, now Alter Johannisfriedhof Leipzig

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maja Galle: The Archangel Michael in 19th Century German Art , Herbert Utz Verlag GmbH Munich 2002, ISBN 978-3831601851 , p. 132
  2. ↑ Historical group of attic figures back in the Bibliotheca Albertina ( UBL Info ( Memento from October 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ))

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personal data
SURNAME Coffee sack, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH regensburg
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 1890
Place of death Berlin