Karl Voss (sculptor)

Karl Voss (born November 5, 1825 in Dünnwald near Cologne , † August 22, 1896 in Bonn ) was a German sculptor .

life and work

Emperor Augustus (bust based on ancient models). Karl Voss (1871)

Karl Voss studied in Munich and Brussels and lived in Rome from 1850 to 1894, where he created numerous ideal sculptures in the spirit of antiquity, which were also widely acclaimed in Germany. B. “Bacchante joking with Bacchus”, “Hebe watering the eagle”, “Rebekah at the fountain”, “Cupid and Psyche”. He was assigned to the so-called " German Romans ", for whom Friedrich Wilhelm IV. Of Prussia had a preference. That is why two sculptures by Voss have been preserved in the Raffael Hall of the Orangery Palace in Potsdam ( Ganymed and Hebe ).

The painter Carl Leopold Voss (1856–1921) was his son.

literature

Dr. Berghöfer: Voss, Karl. In: Anton Bettelheim (Hrsg.): Biographisches Jahrbuch and German Nekrolog. Volume 2, Reimer, Berlin 1898, p. 444 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Voss, Karl (1825) . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 34 : Urliens – Vzal . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1940, p. 561 .

Web links

Commons : Karl Voss - collection of images, videos and audio files

Beethoven bust by Karl Voss, digital archive in the Beethoven House , Bonn

Individual evidence

^ Voss, Karl. In: Hermann Alexander Müller (Ed.): Biographisches Künstler-Lexikon. Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 541 ( retrobibliothek.de ).

personal data
SURNAME	Voss, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	November 5, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH	Thin forest near Cologne
DATE OF DEATH	August 22, 1896
Place of death	Bonn

[1] Voss, Karl. In: Hermann Alexander Müller (Ed.): Biographisches Künstler-Lexikon. Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 541 ( retrobibliothek.de ).