Leopold Armbruster (sculptor)

Leopold Anton Johann Armbruster (born June 6, 1862 in Rippoldsau ( Baden ), † 1936 in Dresden ) was a German academic sculptor .

Life

Armbruster first studied around 1881 at the Karlsruhe Art Academy and from 1883 to 1887 at the Dresden Art Academy , where he was a student of Johannes Schilling and Ernst Julius Hähnel . Then he was initially an employee at Schilling and worked on his works ( Niederwald Monument ). From 1892 to 1936 he worked as a freelancer in Dresden and lived at Bergstrasse  18, his studio was in Münchner Strasse  11, also in the Südvorstadt . Both buildings were destroyed in 1945 by the air raids on Dresden .

Armbruster was a member of the Allgemeine Deutsche and the Dresden Art Cooperative , an association of visual artists and a frequent guest at the Goppeln artists' colony near Dresden. In 1905, on the recommendation of the director of the Dresden State Art Collections , Georg Treu , he received an order for the design of the new State Museum of Fine Arts A. S. Puschkin to produce the decorative, plastic facade and gable decorations. These works with motifs from antiquity were made from Tyrolean wax-yellow marble . Although the director of the Russian art collections, Ivan Wladimirowitsch Zwetajew , wanted these works to be carried out by Russian artists, he was convinced by Armbruster's work and the sense of antique design.

In the years 1893 to 1930 he took part in art exhibitions in Munich, Dresden and partly in Berlin. At the last Dresden exhibitions he presented various reliefs in marble and bronze as well as various designs of porcelain figures and the design of a plaque for Georg Hulbe .

From the materials sandstone, marble, granite, bronze and alabaster, Armbruster created sculptures, statues and busts, reliefs and three-dimensional decorative interior and facade decorations.

Works (selection)

Görlitz, Vocational School Entrance portals Furtstrasse 1 and 3

• 1893: Bronze statue of the dying youth , annual exhibition in Munich
• 1894: Bust of Constantin Lipsius , Leipzig City History Museum
• 1896: Boy frieze , Dresdner Bank, Dresden
• 1897: Bronze medallion Caroline Neuber at the Neuberin monument in Dresden- Laubegast
• 1901: Dianabad in Dresden
• 1902: Sculptures at the Central Theater in Dresden
• 1903: Albertinum Dresden staircase , groups of sculptures in the niches, relief ceiling in the loggia
• 1904: Facade decorations on the building of the Ministry of Finance, Giebelfelder, Dresden
• 1905: Graves of the Möbius and Janke families, Radebeul-Ost cemetery
• 1904 to 1905: Sculpture friezes, gable decorations and decorative facade designs at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow .
• 1905: Crowning of the right entrance portal at Furtstrasse 1, administration building and insurance building, now the technical college of TÜV Rheinland, Görlitz
• 1905: Figurine jewelry Güntzbad Dresden
• 1906 to 1909: Reliefs and three-dimensional facade decorations for the Dresden-Strehlen teachers' seminar building complex .
• 1908: Plastic decorative interior decoration, Johann-Georgen-Allee 1, 3 and 15, Dresden.
• 1910: Figure decorations and plastic facade decorations, Imperial Palace Dresden
• 1914: Herz-Jesu statue on the main portal and other figures on the portals of the Herz-Jesu-Kirche Dresden
• 1935: Plaque for Georg Hulbe , Dresden art exhibition
• Various designs of medallions and plaques, porcelain figurines and portrait busts

literature

• Armbruster, Leopold Anton Johann . In: Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General Artist Lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists . Prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller . 3rd, revised and updated edition up to the latest time. tape 5 : Vialle-Zyrlein. Supplements and corrections . Literary Institute, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1901, p. 8 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive - Supplements).
• Armbruster, Leopold AJ In: Hans Wolfgang Singer (Hrsg.): General Artist Lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists . Prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller . tape 6 : Second addendum with corrections . Literary Institute, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1922, p. 7 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Armbruster, Leopold . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 2 : Antonio da Monza-Bassan . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1908, p. 115 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Daniel Jacob: Sculpture Guide Dresden: From Aphrodite to Twin Fountains. ISBN 3-942098-05-9 , p. 173.
• Alexander Baranov, Tobias Burg and Erhard Hexelschneider: Building a small Albertinum in Moscow: Iwan Zwetajew and Georg Treu in correspondence. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2006, ISBN 978-3-412-06306-1 , p. 81 ff.
• Alexander von Gleichen-Rußwurm, Susanne Kähler, Karl Bertuch: Artificial casting in Lauchhammer: 1784 until today. Books on Demand publisher; Edition: 2 from 2013, p. 83.

Web links

Commons : Leopold Armbruster  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archive of the Dresden University of Fine Arts
2. ↑ Address book for Dresden and its suburbs 1910 . Schönfeld, Dresden 1910, p. 17 ( slub-dresden.de ).
3. ↑ Alexander Baranov, Tobias Burg and Erhard Hexelschneider: Building a small Albertinum in Moscow: Iwan Zwetajew and Georg Treu in correspondence. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-412-06306-1 , p. 81 ff.
4. ↑ inventory number Pl 1067; GOS no. ps000034.
5. ^ Daniel Jacob: Sculpture Guide Dresden: From Aphrodite to Zwillingsbrunnen. ISBN 3-942098-05-9 . P. 173.
6. ^ Tombs of the Möbius and Janke families Deutsche Fotothek
7. ^ Technical college of TÜV Rheinland
8. ↑ Deutsche Fotothek, photo no. FD 450 729;
9. ↑ On the history of the Catholic parish Herz-Jesu Dresden-Johannstadt. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 12, 2015 ; Retrieved April 9, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.