Konrad Knoll
Konrad Knoll (born September 9, 1829 in Bad Bergzabern , † June 14, 1899 in Munich ) was a German sculptor.
Life
Konrad Knoll first learned in his homeland with the well-known sculptor priest Bernhard Würschmitt , trained from 1845 in Karlsruhe and Stuttgart , then in Munich near Halbig and attended the academy there from 1848–1852 .
His first works were a Tannhäuserschild (1856) and a statue of Wolframs von Eschenbach for the poet's birthplace in the form of a fountain. In 1860 he created the model of a statue of Sappho , which he later made in marble for King Ludwig II of Bavaria . In the next two years the colossal statues of Henry the Lion and Ludwig of Bavaria were built at the Old Town Hall in Munich. Immediately after it was completed, Knoll began work on the Munich fish fountain in 1865 . In between, he created the model for the Johann Philipp Palms monument in Braunau am Inn , which, like the fish fountain, was cast in ore by Ferdinand von Miller .
A life-size group dates from the time immediately afterwards: Saint Elisabeth , expelled from the Wartburg with her three children . In 1868 Knoll modeled the colossal bust of the historian Ludwig Häusser for the cemetery in Heidelberg . This was followed by a colossal bust of Ludwig van Beethoven , the monument to Melchior Meyr in Nördlingen and a bust of the German emperor. Weidenwang, a district of Berching , is the location of a limestone stele with an inscription and bronze bust on a marble base, created in 1870 for Christoph Willibald Gluck .
Knoll was a professor at the Technical University in Munich .
Fish fountain on Marienplatz in Munich
Johann Philipp Palm in Braunau am Inn
Union Monument Kaiserslautern
Wolfram-von-Eschenbach-Fountain
Grave of Julius Lange in the old southern cemetery in Munich - location
Gluck Monument Weidenwang
literature
- Dr. Bernhard Gottfried Josef Würschmitt, Catholic pastor, a sculptor in the Palatinate . Otto Abel, Landau 1938
- Hyacinth Holland : Knoll, Konrad . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 51, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, pp. 259-262.
- Knoll, Konrad . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon , Volume 9, p. 883
- Knoll, Konrad . In: Biographisches Künstler-Lexikon , 1882
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Knoll, Konrad |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Knoll, Konrad von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 9, 1829 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bad Bergzabern |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 14, 1899 |
| Place of death | Munich |