Peter Schöpf

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Peter Schöpf, lithograph by Franz Hanfstaengl (1832)

Peter Schöpf (born June 5, 1805 in Munich , † September 13, 1875 in Rome ) was a German sculptor of classicism .

Life

Peter Schöpf was a son of the sculptor Peter Paul Schöpf (* 1757 in Imst ; † 1841 in Munich), from whom he also received his first lessons in wood carving.

From 1818 he attended the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where he modeled after antiquity and nature under the direction of Robert von Langer . He also received his further training from his brother Lorenz Schöpf (1793–1871).

In 1828 he created the bust and two geniuses of the classical monument of Prince-Bishop Joseph von Stubenberg in Eichstätt Cathedral . His statues of Christ and several apostles for the classically redesigned hospital church in Weilheim in Upper Bavaria date from 1829 .

In 1832 he received a travel grant to Italy from King Ludwig I of Bavaria . In Rome he worked in the studio of the Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen until 1834 . His childhood friend Ludwig Schwanthaler was with him in Rome . In Rome he completed the bust of the general Alexander von Haslang for the Hall of Fame in Munich on behalf of King Ludwig .

At the end of 1838 he returned to Munich. There he participated in marble work for the Walhalla and created, among other things, busts of Christoph Willibald Gluck and Jean Paul as well as the last stage of the surrounding inner frieze designed by Martin von Wagner , which depicts the conversion of the Teutons to Christianity by Saint Boniface over a length of ten meters .

From October 1841 he stayed in Rome again, where he completed the bust of Johannes Kepler for the Walhalla. For the Siegestor in Munich, he modeled two wreath-donating geniuses . After Thorvaldsen's death in 1844, he realized the larger-than-life marble statue of Conradin designed by the later King Maximilian II of Bavaria , which was installed in the church of Santa Maria del Carmine Maggiore in Naples in 1847 . In 1869 he created the marble bust of the grave monument of August von Platen in the garden of Villa Landolina in Syracuse .

Since 1844 Schöpf was married to a Roman woman named Caterina Costa.

  • Peter Schöpf, drawing by Leopold Pollak (1835)

  • Kepler bust in the Walhalla (1842)

  • Conradin statue in the church of Santa Maria del Carmine Maggiore in Naples (1847)

  • Tomb of August von Platen in Syracuse (photo by Wilhelm von Gloeden , around 1900)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bjarne Jørnæs: The Sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen. Copenhagen 2011, pp. 196-197; Sibylle Kreisel: I monumenti funebri the Corradino the Svevia a Napoli e Augusto von Platen a Siracusa. in: Incontri 6, No. 23, 2018, pp. 55–60.
  2. ^ Gunnar Ochs:  Platen-Hallermund, August Graf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 510 f. ( Digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Schöpf, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 1875
Place of death Rome