Robert Toberentz

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Robert Toberentz (born December 4, 1849 in Berlin , † July 31, 1895 in Rostock ) was a German sculptor .

Life

From 1867 to 1869 Toberentz studied at the Berlin Art Academy and then for two years in Johannes Schilling's studio in Dresden .

From 1872 to 1875 he went to Rome , where he gradually took a more and more realistic direction in his mythological genre figures and groups, e. For example: “A satyr with Cupid”, “Perseus covers the head of Medusa”, “Roman shepherd” ( National Gallery Berlin ) and others. After his return from Italy he came back to Berlin and was from 1879 to 1885 director of the master workshop for sculpture at the Silesian Museum of Fine Arts in Breslau .

Toberentz stayed in America from 1885 to 1889 and returned to Berlin via Paris in 1890 . He received the title of professor in Berlin in 1895.

On July 31, 1895, Robert Toberentz died while traveling in Rostock. His grave is located in the St. Marien and St. Nikolai Cemetery I in the Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg .

He was married to Rodin's student Catherine Toberentz .

Create

In 1875 he broke with his older direction, which had moved in Rauch 's ideal style, and worked in the manner of Reinhold Begas in close connection with nature. The first of these works was the marble figure of an elf and a faun with cupid, which was followed in 1878 by the bronze figure of a resting shepherd (in the Berlin National Gallery). His very aptly characterized portrait busts were also praised.

On November 12, 1887, the monumental fountain in Görlitz with the so-called " Muschelminna " was inaugurated, a bronze female figure with a water-donating shell over her head. The name "Muschelminna" arose from the vernacular that described the bronze statue on the marble plinth. The statue was melted down during World War II. A true-to-original replica has been on display on the fountain since 1994.

In 1891, the life-size naked figure of an ancient Greek sculptor, a girl sleeping on a couch and the equestrian statue of Emperor Barbarossa for the imperial palace of Goslar were created in Berlin .

After the death of the sculptor Martin Paul Otto , Robert Toberentz was given the task of completing the Luther memorial for Berlin in 1893 , on which Luther's head and the seated figures of Ulrich von Hutten and Franz von Sickingen are his own work. After all the accompanying figures of the memorial complex had been melted down and the square was destroyed in the Second World War, the preserved Luther figure was placed in the Stephanus Foundation in Berlin-Weißensee . The return of the monument to the Marienkirche near its original location on the Neuer Markt in the Marienviertel took place in October 1989 shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall .

Works

  • 1873: Italian girl (in the collection of the Hamburger Kunsthalle )
  • 1877: Resting Shepherd (part of the Alte Nationalgalerie Berlin )
  • 1885: Completion of the Luther Memorial in Berlin (after the death of Paul Otto )
  • 1887: Muschelminna fountain on the Postplatz in Görlitz
  • 1888: bust of Carl Schurz
  • 1890: Renewal of the grave monument for Count Friedrich Bogislav von Tauentzien in Breslau
  • 1892: The sculptor , marble statue
  • 1893: Tomb of the writer Hans Herrig in Braunschweig
  • 1893: Bust of the Minister of Culture Gustav von Goßler
  • 1893: Draft for the equestrian image of Friedrich Barbarossa in the imperial palace of Goslar , embossed in copper after Toberentz's death and unveiled in 1900
  • 1894: Double portrait of Prince Joachim and Princess Victoria Luise of Prussia, former audience room of Empress Auguste Victoria in the New Palais, Potsdam.
  • 1895: Statue of King Frederick the Great "at the age of his accession to the throne" for the White Hall in the Berlin City Palace

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SURNAME Toberentz, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH December 4, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 1895
Place of death Rostock