Philipp Graß

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Philipp Graß (born May 6, 1801 in Wolxheim , Département Bas-Rhin , † April 11, 1876 in Strasbourg ) was an Alsatian sculptor of classicism . He worked in Strasbourg and the surrounding area.

Life

He was the son of C. Schoch (1765–1832) and L. Graß, whom he also portrayed on canvas. This picture is exhibited in the former Carthusian monastery in Molsheim. His family had lived in the wine village of Wolxheim for generations. At the age of sixteen he began an apprenticeship with Landolin Ohnmacht and François Joseph Bosio . He created bronze statues of General Kléber and Prefect Adrien de Lezay-Marnésia , Prefect of the Rhin-et-Moselle (1806–1810) and Bas-Rhin (1810–1814) department, as well as numerous works for the Strasbourg Cathedral .

From 1820 to 1823 he trained at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris . On his return to Alsace , he was appointed "Sculptor of the Strasbourg Cathedral" at the Strasbourg Cathedral Builders' Hut (→ Musée de l'reuvre Notre-Dame ), where he was assigned to make reproductions of statues based on old documents that reflect the iconoclasm of the revolutionary era had become victims. Since 1865 he was a Knight of the Legion of Honor .

Graß was a friend of the Breton writer Émile Souvestre , for whose grave in the Père-Lachaise cemetery he created a bust. During the siege of Strasbourg , the Museum of Fine Arts , in which some of his works were located, was set on fire by Prussian artillery fire on August 24, 1870 and completely destroyed.

Philipp Graß died of a stroke in Strasbourg on April 11, 1876 and was buried in his home town.

Honors

A street in Strasbourg and a vineyard in Wolxheim bear his name. A room is dedicated to him in the Museum of the Chartreuse Notre-Dame in Molsheim .

Works (selection)

Statue of Adrien de Lezay-Marnésia in Strasbourg
  • Bronze statues of General Jean-Baptiste Kléber (1840) and the Prefect of the Rhine-Moselle Department Adrien de Lezay-Marnésia (1845) in Strasbourg
  • The Last Judgment , on the facade of the Strasbourg Cathedral
  • Icarus spreads his wings (1831), a work lost during the siege of Strasbourg in 1870;
  • Susanna in the bath , treatment of the classical theme, 1834
  • Group of the Sons of Niobe , treatment of the classic theme, 1846
  • Young peasant woman , little naive “Bretagne woman ”, sitting on a rock, touching human bones with bare feet, (1839). Inspired by a passage from Souvestres Les Derniers Bretons
  • Sculpture for Il Penseroso , 1848
  • Bust of the Finance Minister Jean-Georges Humann

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ludwig Spach :  Graß, Philipp . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, pp. 591-52.
  2. ↑ Toile conservée au couvent des Chartreux à Molsheim (Patrimoine de France) [1]  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.patrimoine-de-france.org  

literature

  • Philippe Grass, sa vie et ses œuvres , G. Fischbach, Strasbourg, 1876
  • Catalog des objets d'art dépendant de la succession de M. Philippe Grass, Artiste Sculpteur à Strasbourg , G. Fischbach, Strasbourg, 1876,
  • Agnès Acker: Encyclopédie de l'Alsace , vol. 6, Éditions Publitotal, Strasbourg, 1986
  • Charles Baechler (et al.): Nouveau dictionnaire de biographie alsacienne , vol. 13, Fédération des sociétés d'histoire et d'archéologie d'Alsace, La Fédération, Strasbourg, 1982
  • Anselme Laugel: Biographies Alsaciennes. Philippe Grass , Ed. de la Revue Alsacienne illustrée, 1906
  • Joseph Liblin, August Gasser et Angel Ingold: Revue d'Alsace , vol. 35, 1884
  • Camille Schneider: "Philippe Grass, author of the Kléber monument et les vicissitudes de ce monument", in: Kléber, fils d'Alsace. Hommage collectif a l'occasion du 2. centenaire , Alsatia, Strasbourg, 1953
  • Ludwig Spach :  Graß, Philipp . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 591 f.

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personal data
SURNAME Graß, Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Alsatian sculptor of classicism
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1801
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolxheim , Bas-Rhin department
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 1876
Place of death Strasbourg