Karl Hilgers

Karl Hilgers (born January 17, 1844 in Düsseldorf , † February 25, 1925 in Berlin ; full name Karl Hermann Joseph Hubert Hilgers ) was a German sculptor .

Life

As the son of the landscape painter Carl Hilgers , he studied from 1864 to 1870 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under August Wittig . He lived in Rome from 1873 to 1876 as part of a study trip. 1876–1895 he worked in Berlin, where he also received the title of professor . From 1895–1898 he worked again in Rome with a stay at Villa Strohl-Fern , 1898–1902 in Florence and from 1902 back in Berlin. In the period 1896/1897 he was chairman of the German Art Association in Rome. Hilgers created numerous public monuments and competition designs, with which he was often represented at exhibitions from 1880 to 1916 (for example in Berlin, Munich and Düsseldorf) and also received prizes. In 1907 he received a small gold medal at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition . He was a member of the Association of Berlin Artists .

Karl Hilgers was married to Maria, née Andreae. He found his final resting place in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf .

plant

War memorial to commemorate the fallen soldiers of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/1871 on the land crown in the Düsseldorf court garden

1879: " Genius of Art", on the gable of the former art gallery in Düsseldorf (lost)
1883: Colossal statue of King Friedrich Wilhelm I in the Hall of Fame in the Berlin Armory
1890: War memorial in the Düsseldorf court garden
1894: Equestrian monument of Kaiser Wilhelm I in Stettin
1897: Marble figure "Muse" ( National Gallery Berlin )
1907: marble statue "Judith"
1912: Minerva fountain in front of the old library in Berlin
Marble group "Eva on Abel's corpse"
Bronze statue " Rudolf von Habsburg ", at Hamburg City Hall on the market side between the window niches
four virtues as allegorical limestone figures for the Reichstag building in Berlin
two bronze reliefs for the Dirksen grave monument on the Matthäikirchhof in Berlin

literature

Intellectual Germany at the end of the 19th century. Encyclopedia of German intellectual life in biographical sketches. Volume 1: The visual artists. CG Röder, Leipzig / Berlin 1898.
Franz Neubert: Hilgers, Karl. In: German contemporary lexicon. Biographical manual of contemporary German men and women. Schulze, Leipzig 1905, Col. 606 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Friedrich Jansa: German visual artists in words and pictures. Jansa, Leipzig 1912, p. 266.
Willy Oskar Dressler (ed.): Dressler's art manual . 8th edition, Volume 2, Berlin 1921, p. 245.
Hilgers, Karl . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 17 : Heubel – Hubard . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1924, p. 84-85 .
Heinz Kullnick: Hilgers, Karl. In: Berliner and Wahlberliner. Persons and personalities in Berlin 1640–1914. Hayn, Berlin 1960, column 429.

Web links

Commons : Karl Hilgers - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Friedrich Noack : The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages. Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1927, Volume 2, p. 263 ( digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de ).

personal data
SURNAME	Hilgers, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hilgers, Karl Hermann Joseph Hubert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	January 17, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH	February 25, 1925
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Friedrich Noack : The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages. Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1927, Volume 2, p. 263 ( digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de ).