Ludwig von Hofer

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Bust of Ludwig Hofer in the Pragfriedhof Stuttgart
Horse tamer in the Lower Castle Park
Outraged citizens , lithograph by an unknown artist, around 1855. In
1854, copies of antique statues by Ludwig Hofer were put up in Stuttgart near the New Palace . The nudity of some of the characters caused moral outrage in large parts of the population.

Johann Ludwig Hofer , von Hofer from 1851 , (born June 20, 1801 in Ludwigsburg , † March 6, 1887 in Stuttgart ) was a German sculptor.

life and work

Ludwig Hofer received his first training in his hometown and in Stuttgart and was called by Leo von Klenze to Munich in 1819 to work on the ornamentation of the Glyptothek .

After working there for four years, he went to Rome , where he stayed for 15 years. In Thorvaldsen's workshop, in which he worked for the first five years, he executed the kneeling angel with the baptismal font that he had designed.

Returning to Stuttgart in 1838, he brought a psyche with him as his own work, which the King of Württemberg bought.

With orders from the latter he repeatedly went to Italy, mainly for the execution of three colossal marble groups, two horse-tamers and the robbery of Hylas for the Stuttgart palace gardens .

Partly on his own initiative, partly on behalf of the king, he began then to replicate a number of the most famous antique and modern statues (including Ceres and Flora , Venus d'Arles ), which almost entirely for the decoration of the Stuttgart palace gardens and the royal country house Schloss Rosenstein used were.

In the latter place there is also an excellent original work by Hofer, an angry cupid. From 1857 to 1859 he created the 4 m high bronze equestrian statue of Duke Eberhard im Bart in the courtyard of the Old Palace in Stuttgart. His work is also the bronze Concordia on the anniversary column of King Wilhelm I in front of the new castle , the golden Mercury on the Mercury column in the old chancellery and the equestrian statue of King Wilhelm I in the forecourt of the Old State Gallery. In 1880 he made a marble group depicting the robbery of Proserpina (Städtisches Lapidarium in Stuttgart). He died in Stuttgart on March 6, 1887 at the age of 85. His grave with a marble bust of Ludwig Hofer by Theodor Bausch (see cover picture) is in Department 8 at the Pragfriedhof in Stuttgart.

Honors

Ludwig von Hofer was awarded the Knight's Cross first class of the Order of the Württemberg Crown in 1850 , which was associated with the personal title of nobility.

Other representation: In an audience with King Wilhelm I (Württemberg) on March 25, 1851, Hofer was officially elevated to the rank of Württemberg court sculptor and ennobled as "von Hofer". In a letter dated March 24, Hofer signed with "L. Hofer", while his correspondence since then with "v. Hofer ”was signed.

In 1884 Hofer was made an honorary citizen of the city of Stuttgart. In 1905 Ludwig-Hofer-Strasse in Stuttgart-Nord was named after him.

Selected Works

literature

Web links

Commons : Ludwig von Hofer  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Royal Württemberg Court and State Manual. 1854, p. 50 ( books.google.de ).
  2. ↑ Patricia Peschel: The Stuttgart court sculptor Johann Ludwig von Hofer (1801-1887). Work monograph. Stuttgart 2009, p. 23.

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personal data
SURNAME Hofer, Ludwig von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hofer, Johann Ludwig von (full name); Hofer, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1801
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigsburg
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 1887
Place of death Stuttgart