Karl Hoffmann (sculptor)

Portrait of Carl Hoffmann, drawn by Michael Stohl , Rome 1843

Hoffmann's donor figures on the sides of the main portal of the Apollinaris Church

Karl Hoffmann , also Carl Hoffmann , (* 1816 in Wiesbaden ; † 1872 there ) was a German sculptor .

Life

From 1836 Carl Hoffmann was enrolled in the sculpture class of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . He was also trained as a scholarship holder of the Nassau State in the workshop of Bertel Thorvaldsen in Rome. In 1842 he was commissioned to create the figure group of Hygieia , the goddess of health, who is also the patron saint of pharmacists, in Carrara marble for the Wiesbaden Kochbrunnen on Kranzplatz. The monument was inaugurated in 1850 and is now located in the Hygieia gallery in the Kurhaus colonnades . In 1846 he had a studio in Kranenbäume-Strasse in Cologne , he received orders from Cologne churches, but also in the wider area (e.g. four sculptures on the west facade of St. John the Baptist , Treis-Karden ). Hoffmann also made the sculptures in the Bonifatiuskirche , namely the crucifixion group above the ambulatory in the apse and the two statues of St. Francis of Assisi and St. Theresa of Avila under the arcade arches of the ambulatory.

He also created the sculptures of Saint Francis and Saint Paula , the patron saint of the church's founders, Franz Egon von Fürstenberg-Stammheim and his wife Pauline von Romberg, at the Apollinariskirche in Remagen, to the side of the main portal .

Epitaph of Friedrich Overbeck 1871

Statue of Hoffmann in Treis-Karden

He married the Catholic Karoline von Rünagel in 1837 and converted himself in Rome in 1844; during his confirmation on 14 June 1844 in Ignatius of Loyola in Campo Marzio , the painter was Friedrich Overbeck his godfather. Karoline Hoffmann looked after Overbeck after the death of his wife in 1853 and was adopted by her as an adult in 1855 and appointed as heiress.

This proximity explains why Hoffmann made his epitaph in a side chapel of the church of San Bernardo alle Terme in 1871, two years after Overbeck's death . It shows the artist in his last sleep with a laurel-wreathed palette at his feet.

The painter Karl Hoffmann (* 1838; † around 1900) was his son.

See also

• Wiesbaden painter and sculptor

literature

• Friedrich Noack : Hoffmann, 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. 270-271 .
• Gerhard Ahrens : How the estate of the painter Friedrich Overbeck was sold in three decades. In: Journal of Lübeck History . Volume 93, 2013, pp. 253-278.

Web links

Commons : Karl Hoffmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Karl Hoffmann was also written with a "C". So happened z. B. in the father city sheets of 1904.
2. ↑ 02395 Carl Hoffmann, matriculation book 1809–1841, matrikel.adbk.de (accessed on 04/01/12)
3. ^ Sulpiz Boisserée : Diaries 1808-1854. Edited by H.-J. Weitz. Quoted from Archived Copy ( Memento of the original from March 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 9, 2016. 
4. ^ Albrecht Weiland: The Campo Santo Teutonico in Rome and its grave monuments. Volume I, Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1988, ISBN 3-451-20882-2 , p. 205.
5. ↑ Werner Schäfke, The Rhine from Mainz to Cologne. Art travel guide: A journey through the romantic Rhine Valley. 1999, p. 170.
6. ^ David August Rosenthal : Images of converts from the nineteenth century. Volume I / 2, Manz, Regensburg 1892, p. 283.
7. ^ Friedrich Overbeck. In: Father-city sheets . Lübeck, March 20, 1904.
8. ↑ Hoffmann, 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. 271 .