Rudolf Gangloff

Rudolf Gangloff , also Rudolph Gangloff , (born February 21, 1878 in Leipzig , † 1967 in Bremen ) was a German sculptor and carver .

biography

Gangloff received his training as a sculptor in Leipzig. He then worked in Belgium, France and England. In France he also studied at the Sorbonne in Paris around 1898 . He is said to have been a member of the Darmstadt artists 'colony afterwards , but his name does not appear in the extensive literature on the artists' colony. He came to Bremen around 1903. In the redesign of the upper hall of the Bremen town hall, he worked for Johann Georg Poppe a . a. with the lush town hall stalls. He then worked as a freelance artist in Bremen from 1905. Ludwig Roselius consulted him on (so far not verified) orders for the design of Böttcherstrasse . His most prominent work was the monument to Paul von Hindenburg on Heligoland , which was destroyed in the Second World War . It was shaped like a bust of the President of the Reich with an eagle and was donated by HAPAG and Norddeutscher Lloyd in 1929. As an employee of the Bremen Building Department , he created various plastic elements on public buildings in Bremen. In the time of National Socialism he was considered a degenerate artist . Many of his works - including a bust of Friedrich Ebert  - were destroyed by the war or the Nazis . After 1948 he was active again as a sculptor.

Works

• Wooden relief by Hermann Böse in the entrance area of ​​the Hermann-Böse-Gymnasium in Bremen
• Objects by Ernst v. Wachold and Rudolf Gangloff at and in the Waller Ring school center in Bremen
• Building sculpture at the Lyceum Kleine Helle (today Altes Gymnasium ) in Bremen
• Portrait bust of Konrad Weichberger , 1928 (lost)
• Portrait bust of Ernst Georg Baars , 1939 (plaster), today in the Heimatmuseum Schloss Schönebeck , Bremen
• Portrait bust of Ludwig Roselius (entrepreneur) , ( posthumously ), oak, 1948, Ludwig Roselius Museum , Bremen
• Elisabeth Bartling (Ed.): Rudolf Gangloff. Something inside of me cracked in two too . Poems from 1920–1956. Photographs of his sculptural work, Tuwifal-Verlag Bremen, 1989

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . Volume: supplementary volume . A – Z. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2008, ISBN 978-3-86108-986-5 .
• Weser-Zeitung of May 2, 1931 (with ill.); Weser-Kurier February 21, 1948, February 21, 1953, July 18, 1969, August 13, 1975.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung of September 10, 1929
2. ↑ In the last days of his life Aby Warburg added a contemporary postcard of the monument to his famous Mnemosyne table work . (P. 128/129, Fig. 15 in the edition by Martin Warnke , Berlin 2000)
3. ↑ verbal information from Gangloff's daughter