Peter Rummel (sculptor)

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Peter Rummel (born July 12, 1850 in Regensburg , † 1900 or 1913 in Munich ) was a sculptor who worked mainly in Vienna .

Life and works

Rummel was the son of a carpenter. From 1868 he studied at the Academy in Munich. In 1871 he received a scholarship. From 1872 to 1885 he was a student and assistant to Zumbusch . For example, he was involved in the production of the Beethoven monument , which was awarded a prize at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1878 and erected on Beethovenplatz in Vienna in 1880 . He later lived as a freelance sculptor in Vienna.

In collaboration with the architect Heinrich Claus, he designed the tomb of the married couple Johann Ritter von Schimke and Adolfine von Schimke at the Vienna Central Cemetery . The tomb has portal architecture in the neo-renaissance style . It is adorned with the figure of an angel and a mourner bending over an urn; a third figure with a coat of arms is on the steps of the tomb. A tondo with a double portrait of the deceased is held above the portal by Tutten .

Rummel lived at times like Betty Rummel in Hinterbrühl .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Stachel: Albert Ilg and the “invention” of the baroque as an Austrian “national style” . In: Baroque, a place of memory: Interpretament of modernity / postmodernism . Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2007, ISBN 978-3-205-77468-6 , pp. 109 ( books.google.de - excerpt).
  2. ↑ Olga Stieglitz, Gerhard Zeillinger: The sculptor Richard Kauffungen (1854–1942): between Ringstrasse, artist house and women's art school . Peter Lang, Frankfurt, a. M. 2008, ISBN 978-3-631-52203-5 , pp. 9 , note 7 in the introduction ( books.google.de - reading sample).
  3. ↑ 02453 Peter Rummel . In: Matriculation database of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich (ed.): Matriculation book . tape 2: 1841–1884 , 1884 ( matrikel.adbk.de , Digitale-sammlungen.de ).
  4. ^ Bavarian courier . 15th year, no. 362 . Munich December 29, 1871, p. 3586 , ... Subsequent eleven of the k. Academy ... ( books.google.de ).
  5. ↑ Constantin von Wurzbach : Zumbusch, Kaspar Ritter von . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 60th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1891, p. 307 ( digitized version ).
  6. ↑ Illustration of the Schimke tomb on marschler.at.
  7. ↑ Wolfgang Czerny, Peter Adam: The art monuments of Austria: Vienna - X. to XIX. and XXI. to XXIII. District . A. Schroll, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-7031-0693-X , p. 91 .
  8. ↑ Ordinary members . In: Communications of the Imperial-Royal Geographical Society . tape 41 , no. 10-11 . R. Lechner, Vienna 1898, p. 741 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  9. ^ Address book of contemporary visual artists . Self-published, 1898, p. 214 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Rummel, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sculptor in Vienna
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH regensburg
DATE OF DEATH 1900 or 1913
Place of death Munich