Viktor Cappeller

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Viktor Cappeller (* 29. September 1831 in Nuremberg , † 8. June 1904 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German sculptor of classicism in Stuttgart .

Life

Johann Viktor Cappeller was born on September 29, 1831 in Nuremberg as the son of the architect Georg Cappeller and Clementine Heideloff. She was a sister of the architect Karl Heideloff and the painter and engraver Manfred Heideloff . Cappeller's older brother was the sculptor Johannes Cappeller .

From 1848, Cappeller lived like his brother Johannes in Stuttgart, where he worked with the architect Christian Friedrich Leins . When the father's company ran into financial difficulties and Cappeller's parents were on the verge of ruin, they moved to Stuttgart at the end of 1849, where Viktor and his brother Johannes supported their parents financially. From 1850 to 1852 Cappeller studied at the Stuttgart Art School under Theodor Wagner . In 1854/1855 he stayed in Paris for further training.

Then he lived again in Stuttgart. From 1856 to 1862 he lived with his brother Johannes in the Königsbad, an inn with a bathing establishment and garden at the Neckartor . He then lived in Stöckachweg 132 and Olgastraße 59, from 1871 to 1874 in Rosenstraße 23 and from 1875 on Neckarstraße 23. In 1866 he married the Heilbronn baker's daughter Marie Rössler (1833-1887). The two daughters Johanna and Helene emerged from the marriage. From 1873 to 1899 Cappeller was employed at the trade school as a teacher for modeling and drawing. After a stroke in 1899 he was no longer able to work as an artist.

He was a member of the Stuttgart artists' society Das radiant Bergwerk , mine name "Gyps".

He died on June 8, 1904 at the age of 72 in Frankfurt am Main. His wife had died in 1887 at the age of 54. Both are buried together in a grave in section 14 of the Fangelsbach cemetery in Stuttgart. Cappeller had already created the tomb in 1883, see works .

Works

  • 1861: Equestrian statue of King Wilhelm I.
  • 1862: Neuhausen on the Fildern , parish church of St. Petrus and Paulus , altars, 1862.
  • 1873: Stuttgart, former house at Silberburgstrasse 177, two colossal caryatids dressed in antiquity.
  • 1883: Stuttgart, Fangelsbachfriedhof , Department 14, Viktor Cappeller's tomb. Sandstone stele with marble relief, female genius with a laurel wreath writes on a board: “Calm, gentle noble patient”, small eros with a lowered torch on a pedestal with the Cappeller coat of arms, two female geniuses with shields of the daughters Johanna and Helene, signature: “Cappeler fecit 1883 ".
  • 1885: equestrian shield, bronze relief.
  • 1886: Portrait of Queen Olga.
  • 1890: Stuttgart, crypt of the burial chapel on the Württemberg , marble sarcophagus by Marie Countess Neipperg . Left winged male genius with lowered torch, right winged female genius with laurel wreath, in the center an inscription panel with a hanging garland.

  • Colossal caryatids, formerly Silberburgstrasse 177.

  • Marble sarcophagus by Countess Marie Neipperg .

  • Inscription tablet of the sarcophagus.

  • Viktor Cappeller's family grave.

Memberships

  • Stuttgarter Künstlergesellschaft The radiant mine , mine name "Gyps".

literature

Web links

Commons : Viktor Cappeller  - Collection of Images

Footnotes

  1. ^ Stuttgart address books 1848–1900.
  2. ↑ #Trier 1997 .
  3. ↑ # Wülfing 1998 .
  4. ↑ #Trier 1997 .
  5. ↑ # Wülfing 1998 .
personal data
SURNAME Cappeller, Viktor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cappeller, Johann Viktor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 1904
Place of death Frankfurt am Main