Karl Keil (sculptor)

Wedge's grave in the north cemetery in Wiesbaden

Karl Keil , also Carl Keil , (born May 31, 1838 in Wiesbaden , † August 1, 1889 in Kiedrich ; full name: Karl Philipp Franz Keil ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Keil began his artistic training under the court sculptor Emil Hopfgarten in Biebrich , became a pupil of Friedrich Drake in Berlin in 1857 , made a study trip to Antwerp in 1861 and to Copenhagen and Paris in the following years .

He found his final resting place in the north cemetery in Wiesbaden .

plant

His first independent work was the coat of arms made for the palace of Count von Waldersdorf in Wiesbaden with two lions in sandstone and the reliefs of the four seasons for a dining room.

In 1865, Archduke Stephan of Austria commissioned him with the execution of two colossal heralds as torchbearers at the main portal of Schloss Schaumburg an der Lahn. Keil's other works are:

the 1869 bust of Kaiser Wilhelm I on the facade of the Wilhelmsheilanstalt in Wiesbaden
the 12 m long relief depicting "Franco-German War 1870/71" on the west side of the Victory Column in Berlin
the war memorial 1870/71 in Bremen (1875)
The standard bearer was then repeated for war memorials in Cronenberg and Neuengeseke.
the colossal bronze statue of Kaiser Wilhelm in one of the niches above the main portal of the Red City Hall in Berlin
1880 the bronze statue of Field Marshal Friedrich von Wrangel for Berlin
1883 bronze bust of the architect Friedrich Neuhaus , in front of the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin until 1987 , today exhibited in the German Museum of Technology in Berlin
1899 Emperor Wilhelm I monument in Hohensalza (today Inowrocław in Poland)

Relief on the Victory Column in Berlin
War memorial 1870/71 in Bremen
Kaiser Wilhelm I monument in Hohensalza (today Inowrocław in Poland).
Gladenbeck Berlin - bust, sculpture, Kaiser Wilhelm I. (1) - alloy, raw zinc casting based on the bust of Keil from 1869.

The focus of his artistic talent was on portrait sculpture, in which he combined sharpness and energy of expression with elegant design. His busts of the German Emperor and the German Crown Prince were particularly valued. He was a royal professor.

literature

Wedge, Karl . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 20 : Kaufmann – Knilling . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 71 .

Web links

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

Karl Keil's grave in the north cemetery in Wiesbaden

Individual evidence

^ Marcin Mościcki: Kaiser Wilhelm Monument, Historia pomnikiem się toczy ..., czyli jak Cesarz Wilhelm I utorował drogę Janowi Kasprowiczowi (Polish)

personal data
SURNAME	Wedge, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Keil, Karl Philipp Franz (full name); Keil, Carl (variation)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	May 31, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wiesbaden
DATE OF DEATH	August 1, 1889
Place of death	Kiedrich

[1] Marcin Mościcki: Kaiser Wilhelm Monument, Historia pomnikiem się toczy ..., czyli jak Cesarz Wilhelm I utorował drogę Janowi Kasprowiczowi (Polish)