Peter Joseph Imhoff
Peter Joseph Imhoff also Peter Josef Imhoff (born July 13, 1768 in Cologne ; † December 20, 1844 there ) was a German sculptor .
Life
Peter Joseph Imhoff comes from an important Cologne sculptor - ("picture baker") - family. He was the son of Johann Joseph Imhoff (1739-1802). Together with his three brothers Franz Xaver Bernard (1766-1824), Nikolaus and Anton Joseph (1784-1836), they ran a workshop for burned (baked) clay works. After completing his training in his parents' company, he attended the Düsseldorf Academy . A series of clay busts of Baron von Hüpsch were made between 1788 and 1790, one of which is still preserved in the Cologne City Museum and one in the Hessian State Museum in Darmstadt . Peter Joseph Imhoff created busts of Friedrich Wilhelm III. , by Ferdinand Franz Wallraf , by Karl vom Stein and his wife and by Cologne Cathedral Vicar Kaspar Bernhard Hardy . In later years Imhoff created classical tombs in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne , among others for the Prussian district president Daniel Heinrich Delius . For Freiherr vom Stein in 1817 he created several reliefs on the octagonal, neo-Gothic tower in Nassau , which was created after 1815 as a memorial to the Wars of Liberation . Imhoff also created the tombs of the vom Stein family for the family crypt in Frücht . In 1822, citizens of Elberfeld around Lord Mayor Johann Rütger Brüning commissioned Peter Joseph Imhoff, in honor of the late surgeon , Johann Stephan Anton Diemel, with the execution of a memorial. It is one of the oldest surviving citizen monuments in the Rhineland. In Groß St. Martin there are two life-size statues of the apostles Peter and Paul on the west portal of the nave, which were made in 1789/98.
His son Johann Joseph Imhoff (1796–1880) created his father's tomb in 1844 at the Melatenfriedhof in Cologne, but it was cleared.
literature
- Heinrich G. Lempertz: A bust of Baron Hüpsch by Peter Joseph Imhoff. In: Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch 3/4, 1926/27, pp. 238–242.
- Peter Bloch : The Freiherr vom Stein and the Cologne sculptor Peter Joseph Imhoff. In: Anzeiger des Germanisches Nationalmuseums 1967, pp. 89–116 ( digitized version ).
- Peter Bloch: Imhoff, Peter Joseph. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 155 ( digitized version ).
- Ulrich S. Soénius , Jürgen Wilhelm (Ed.): Kölner Personen-Lexikon. Greven, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-7743-0400-0 , p. 607.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Peter Bloch: Imhoff (Cologne family of sculptors and wood carvers). In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 154 f. ( Digitized version ).
- ^ Josef Abt, Johann Ralf Beines and Celia Körber-Leupold: Melaten - Cologne Graves and History . Greven Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-7743-0305-3 , pp. 80f.
- ↑ denkmal-wuppertal.de: The Diemel monument on the Hardt accessed on February 14, 2014
- ↑ Ruth Meyer-Kahrweg : Monuments, fountains and sculptures in Wuppertal (biographies of the participating artists) Born, Wuppertal, 1991, ISBN 3-87093-058-6 .
- ^ Josef Abt, Johann Ralf Beines and Celia Körber-Leupold: Melaten - Cologne Graves and History . Greven Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-7743-0305-3 , p. 241.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Imhoff, Peter Joseph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Imhoff, Peter Josef |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 13, 1768 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 20, 1844 |
| Place of death | Cologne |