Richard König (sculptor)

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"Der Fechter" (1905) in the courtyard of the sports high school in Dresden (restored and repositioned in 2014)
“The stone thrower” in the Lapidarium Dresden

Richard König (born February 7, 1863 in Leobschütz , Silesia, † August 11, 1937 in Oberammergau ) was a German sculptor .

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König studied from 1882 to 1885 at the Berlin Art Academy under Alexander Calandrelli and from 1885 to 1887 at the Dresden Art Academy under Ernst Julius Hähnel , after which he undertook a study trip to Northern Italy, Florence and Rome in 1888/1889 as a scholarship holder from the Alsace-Lorraine region .

He created numerous sacred and profane sculptures. In 1891, for example, he won the competition for the design of the Elbe-sided gable at the Albertinum in Dresden with his sculpture Herrscherruhm , in 1893 he designed two gusset reliefs made of sandstone and two relief medallions ( Sphinx and Pegasus ) made of sandstone for the southeast side of the exhibition building of the Dresden Art Academy . In 1897 two wooden figures of him were placed in the Radebeul Luther Church . Further collaborations with the Dresden architects Schilling & Graebner for their church buildings in the Dresden area were the marble figures Petrus and Paulus destroyed in 1945 for the reconstruction of the Dresden Kreuzkirche (1900) as well as two majolica reliefs on both sides of the altar in the Christ Church in Dresden-Strehlen (1905).

From 1897 to 1920 he lived in the house at Marienstraße 24 in Radebeul . He was art supervisor in the Lößnitz art association , within which he participated in several exhibitions, and in 1914 he also created the north-facing fountain of the Lößnitz high school . Around 1905, König created two larger-than-life bronze nudes, a sword fencer and a slingshot. They were set up in front of the entrance portal of the sports hall of the Allgemeine Turnverein Dresden (ATV) in Dresden. After the sports hall was destroyed in 1945, they were recovered and kept in the Dresden lapidarium . The sculpture "Der Fechter" was restored in 2014 and placed in the courtyard of the sports high school in Dresden am Messering.

König was married to Lucie Preller, a daughter of the Dresden painter Friedrich Preller the Younger . He had two children with her.

In March 1920 König moved to Oberammergau, where he was hardly active as an artist - no sculptures are known in Oberammergau - and died on August 11, 1937. His urn was buried on August 13, 1937 in Munich's Ostfriedhof , where the urn of his wife Lucie, who died on March 31, 1935, had already been buried.

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Plastic work

  • 1891: Fame (gable group) at the Albertinum in Dresden
  • until 1897: Wooden figures of Moses and John the Baptist for the Luther Church in Radebeul
  • around 1900: Petrus and Paulus (marble figures) for the reconstruction of the Kreuzkirche in Dresden (removed between 1945 and 1955)
  • 1904: Christ (marble figure) in the municipal cemetery in Chemnitz
  • around 1905: Majolica reliefs of Jesus with the Samaritan woman at the well and raising of the young man at Nain in the Christ Church in Dresden-Strehlen (carried out by Villeroy & Boch )
  • 1906: Fountain bowl with gargoyle (fish head) in Lößnitzgymnasium in (Radebeul-) Serkowitz
  • around 1909: Marble groups Hagen and Siegfried as well as Hero and Leander in the foyer of the New Theater in Chemnitz
  • around 1913: Bismarck bust for the Bismarck tower in Dresden-Cossebaude (removed in 1945)
  • 1914: Heads of young men and upper part of the fountain system with gargoyles at the Lößnitzgymnasium in (Radebeul-) Serkowitz
  • 1915: Figure for the tomb of Felix Martin Oberländer on the Johannisfriedhof in Dresden

and undated:

  • Adonis (bronze figure) in the office building of the Ministry of Finance in Dresden
  • Adonis (life-size bronze figure)
  • Anadyomene (bronze plaque), in the sculpture collection of the Albertinum in Dresden
  • Viktorien (Zwickelfiguren) at the exhibition building of the Art Academy in Dresden
  • Paulus (portal figure) at the Paulikirche in Chemnitz
  • Defeated (bronze group)
  • After the fight (bronze group)
  • The truth (bronze group)
  • Siren (terracotta statue)
  • Eagle hunter
  • The fisherman
  • echo
  • wisdom
  • Hercules and Hebe (bronze relief)
  • Last Escape (wooden sculpture)
  • Portrait bust of Karl Gottlieb Anton († 1861; Rector of the Görlitzer Gymnasium) in the Oberlausitz Memorial Hall in Görlitz (today Zgorzelec )
  • Penthesilea (bust)

Fonts

  • Richard König, Lucie König: Friedrich Preller d. J. An artist youth. A. Duncker, Weimar 1930.

literature

Web links

Commons : Richard König  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Volker Helas (arrangement): City of Radebeul . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony, Large District Town Radebeul (=  Monument Topography Federal Republic of Germany . Monuments in Saxony ). SAX-Verlag, Beucha 2007, ISBN 978-3-86729-004-3 , p. 172 f .
  2. ↑ a b civil status information from the archive of the municipality of Oberammergau from November 9, 1994.
  3. ^ Civil status information from the archive of the municipality of Oberammergau from November 9, 1994 according to information from the parish office in Murnau am Staffelsee responsible for Oberammergau until 1945 .
  4. ↑ We remember Prof. Richard König , accessed on December 21, 2017
  5. ^ Viebahn Fine Arts
personal data
SURNAME King, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Leobschütz , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1937
Place of death Oberammergau