Louis Tuaillon

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Louis Tuaillon around 1905

Louis Tuaillon (born September 7, 1862 in Berlin ; † February 21, 1919 there ) was a German sculptor and medalist .

Life

Louis Tuaillon attended the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Berlin from 1879 to 1881 and worked as a master student in the workshop of the sculptor Reinhold Begas in 1882/83 . The following year he traveled to Vienna and worked for the next two years in Rudolf Weyr's workshop . Tuaillon lived in Rome from 1885 to 1903 . There, between 1890 and 1895, the first version of the bronze sculpture Amazon on horseback was created , which is considered to be his main work. The 85-centimeter-tall sculpture by the little-known sculptor received a lot of applause at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition in 1885, and Kaiser Wilhelm II commissioned the larger-than-life version, which was made in 1898 before theNational Gallery was set up in Berlin; a replica is in the Great Tiergarten in Berlin. Georg Kolbe met him there through the German Art Association . In 1899 he received a small gold medal at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition and a large one in 1906. From 1902 Tuaillon belonged to the Berlin Secession . After the establishment of the Deutscher Künstlerbund in 1903 Tuaillon was elected to the board of the DKB; At his first exhibition in 1904 in the Royal Art Exhibition Building in Munich , he exhibited the Amazon and a bronze bull. In 1906 he was appointed professor at the Berlin Art Academy, where he headed a master's studio for sculpture from 1907. In 1910 he received an honorary doctorate from Berlin University . In 1912 he was accepted into the Order Pour Le Mérite for Sciences and Arts. In 1916 he was made an honorary member of the Dresden Art Academy . Tuallion was one of the pioneers of modernism in the Berlin sculpture school . His work "Hercules with the Bull" from 1907 was set up by Albert Speer in 1939 together with other ornamental figures in the garden of Hitler's New Reich Chancellery .

Louis Tuaillon died at the age of 56. His grave is in the urn cemetery on Richtstrasse in Berlin-Wedding . It is designated as the honor grave of the city of Berlin .

Works

literature

Web links

Commons : Louis Tuaillon  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Louis Tuaillon in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Exhibition catalog X. Exhibition of the Munich Secession: The German Association of Artists (in connection with an exhibition of exquisite products of the arts in the craft) , Verlaganstalt F. Bruckmann, Munich 1904 (p. 40: Tuaillon, Louis, Berlin. Cat. No. 211 Stier , Bronze . No. 212 Amazone , bronze (private collection).)
  2. ^ Archive of the Dresden University of Fine Arts.
  3. ^ Ernst-Adolf Chantelau: The bronze statues of Tuaillon, Thorak, Klimsch and Ambrosi for Hitler's garden . A contribution to the topography of the New Reich Chancellery by Albert Speer. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2019, ISBN 978-3-7494-9036-3 .
  4. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Louis Tuaillon
  5. ↑ Image on Wikimedia Commons : close-up
  6. ^ Lothar Hammer : Cologne, the Hohenzollern Bridge and the German bridge architecture of the imperial era . Ed .: City of Cologne, City Conservator. 1st edition. JP Bachem Verlag , Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-7616-1300-8 , p. 53 .
  7. ↑ Images on Wikimedia Commons : close-up
  8. ↑ Images on Wikimedia Commons: close-up
  9. ↑ Inge and Rolf Kießhauer: Bronze for Germany from the Gladbeck's foundries 1851 to about 1926 - The West . Berlin 2008, pp. 144f.
personal data
SURNAME Tuaillon, Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1919
Place of death Berlin