Joseph Uphues

Joseph Uphues. Photo from 1899

Joseph Uphues with the singer Mary Muenchhoff (center)

Artist's signature on the Kaiser Friedrich monument, Wiesbaden, 1897

Joseph Uphues (born May 23, 1850 in Sassenberg ; † January 2, 1911 in Berlin ; full name: Joseph Johann Ludwig Uphues ; alternative spelling: Josef Uphues ) was a German sculptor .

life and work

After an apprenticeship as a carpenter , Uphues set out on a journey through Belgium and the Netherlands from 1868 to 1870. From 1870 to 1871 he did an apprenticeship as a stonemason in Wiedenbrück . He worked there until 1878. In 1878 he was a student of Reinhold Begas and Fritz Schaper at the Berlin Academy . In 1882 he became a master student of Begas, for whom he also worked as an assistant in the private studio from 1885 to 1891. From 1892 he went freelance as a sculptor. In 1899 he received the title of professor and became a member of the Berlin Secession .

• Defense of a Sabine woman (Düren) (1886)
• various large tombs, for example in the Evangelical Cemetery in Düren
• Archer (1888), in the Melbourne Museum ( Australia )

Monuments

• Berlin center
  • Statue of the Postmaster General Heinrich von Stephan in the Reichspostmuseum on Mauerstraße
• Berlin-Kreuzberg
  • Grave monument of the postmaster general Heinrich von Stephan in the old cemetery of the Dreifaltigkeits- Kirchengemeinde ( Dreifaltigkeitsfriedhof I , field 2), honorary grave of the city of Berlin, executed in the workshop of Valentin Casal
• Berlin-Charlottenburg
  • Equestrian statue of Emperor Friedrich III. , Luisenplatz (unveiled May 27, 1905)
• Berlin Tiergarten
  • Monument group 3 in Siegesallee :
    statue of the Brandenburg margrave Otto II with the assistant busts of the knight Johann Gans Edler zu Putlitz and Heinrich von Antwerp (unveiled on March 22, 1899)
  • Monument group 28 in Siegesallee:
    statue of the young King Friedrich II with the assistant busts of Field Marshal Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin and the composer Johann Sebastian Bach (unveiled on August 26, 1899)
  • Statue of Helmuth von Moltke , who Uphues depicted on his pedestal as "The Great Silent", erected on Königsplatz in 1905 (later Tiergarten )
• Düren
  • Statue of Kaiser Wilhelm I, Kaiserplatz (1889–1891)
  • Monument to Emperor Friedrich III. (Order of 1889)
  • Bismarck monument (also 1890)
  • Statue of Helmuth von Moltke (unveiled on March 22, 1902)
• Bad Homburg vor der Höhe
  • Monument to Emperor Friedrich III. (Order of 1890)
• Koblenz
  • Johannes Müller Monument on Jesuitenplatz (1899)
• Kronberg im Taunus
  • Statue of Emperor Friedrich III. (1901) in Victoria Park
• Mannheim
  • Memorial to Helmuth von Moltke (1902)
• Potsdam-Sanssouci
  • Bronze bust of Emperor Friedrich III. at the New Palais (gift from the emperor, melted down)
• Bad Pyrmont
  • Bronze bust of Albert Lortzing (1901)
• Schweidnitz ( Silesia )
  • Statue of King Friedrich II (1908)
• Wiesbaden
  • Statue of Emperor Friedrich III. (1897)
  • Schiller Monument (1905)

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  Defense of a Sabine woman, 1886

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  Mourners at the grave of Heinrich von Stephans

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  Monument to Emperor Friedrich III, Wiesbaden, 1897

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  Frederick the Great in Potsdam, 1901

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  Moltke in the Berlin zoo , 1905

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  Schiller Monument in Wiesbaden, 1905

literature

• Brigitte Kaul: Joseph Johann Ludwig Uphues (1850-1911). Dissertation, Free University of Berlin, 1982.
• Uphues, Joseph . 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. 586 .
• Peter Bloch (Ed.): Ethos and Pathos. The Berlin School of Sculpture 1786–1914. (Catalog for the exhibition of the sculpture gallery of the Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz from May 19 to July 29, 1990 in the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin) Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-7861-1599-0 , Volume 1, p. 570.

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