Paul Disselhoff

Paul Georg Disselhoff (born May 9, 1861 in Kaiserswerth ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Crown Prince Monument at the Kaiserswerther Diakonie, on the occasion of the visit of Crown Prince Friedrich III.

Otto Jäger memorial, photo taken by 1922 at the latest

Paul Disselhoff is the son of Julius Disselhoff and his wife Louise, daughter of Theodor Fliedner . His uncle is August Disselhoff . Disselhoff received his training from 1882 to 1885 in the sculpture class of August Wittig at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . He lived as a photographer in Elberfeld at the end of the 19th century . The resident merchant and patron Ludwig (Louis) von Lilienthal (1828-1893) ran a "hospitable house" on his property on the Kluser Höhe ; a studio in which, in addition to Disselhoff, the painter Johann Richard Seel also worked.

Works

• 1885: Bust of Theodor Fliedner , founder of the Kaiserswerther Diakonie and grandfather of Disselhoff
• 1890: On the grounds of the Kaiserswerther Diakonie stands the Crown Prince monument created by Disselhoff , which commemorates the visit of the later Emperor Friedrich III. remembered as Crown Prince on September 21, 1884 and shows the four-year-old children's hospital patient Wilhelm Kroll on his arm. The lower inscription refers to the Crown Prince's visit to the Jerusalem Deaconess Hospital on November 6, 1869. Translated it means: “Jerusalem, I love you”.
• On April 11, 1893, an order for an Otto Jäger monument in Barmen was awarded to Disselhoff, who made a marble bust for almost 1,500 marks , and to the stone sculptor Friedrich Backhaus , who created the column for 1,300 marks. In 1957 the Neue Rhein-Zeitung reported on the desolate condition of the monument. The city of Wuppertal had the column removed in 1964 and stored it in the Barmen cemetery of honor . The column was later transported by the Barmer Beautification Association from Lönsstrasse to the municipal depot in the Nordpark . After a media initiative by the Wuppertaler Rundschau in 1992, the column was re-erected at its original location on the plateau behind the Leimann'schen pub between Oberbergische Strasse and the Eisenlohr monument, without the marble bust, which has since been lost .

literature

• Ruth Meyer-Kahrweg : Monuments, fountains and sculptures in Wuppertal (biographies of the participating artists) . Born, Wuppertal 1991. ISBN 3-87093-058-6 . P. 38.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ researched at Ancestry
2. ↑ Finding aid of the student lists of the Düsseldorf Art Academy 19th century: Paul Disselhoff BR 0004 No. 1561 401V 1882, BR 0004 No. 1561 444V 1883, BR 0004 No. 1561 486V 1884, BR 0004 No. 1561 528V 1885, sculptor class, teacher August Wittig
3. ↑ ^{a b} statue of Euterpe . In: denkmal-wuppertal.de
4. ^ Finding aid for inventory 2 - 1 Diakonissenanstalt. In: fliedner-kulturstiftung.de, p. 15.
5. ↑ Otto Jäger Memorial. In: denkmal-wuppertal.de
6. ↑ Otto Jäger ( Memento from April 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive )