Wilhelm Albermann

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Statue Friedrich Spee , in the south aisle of the Jesuit Church in Trier

Wilhelm Albermann (born May 28, 1835 in Werden an der Ruhr ; † August 9, 1913 in Cologne ; full name: Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Albermann ) was a German sculptor .

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Grave of Wilhelm Albermann in the Melaten cemetery

Albermann was the son of a master carpenter . He attended the Rector's School in Werden until he was 16 and then completed an apprenticeship as a wood sculptor in Elberfeld . In 1855 he was called up to serve in the military in Berlin and served in the 2nd Guards Grenadier Regiment. His company commander recognized Albermann's artistic talent and allowed him to attend the Berlin Art Academy while on duty and in uniform . During this time Albermann joined the Catholic Reading Association, the first student corporation of the KV , now K.St.V. Askania-Burgundia .

Albermann then initially worked for his teachers Hugo Hagen and August Fischer . In 1864 he became a soldier in the war against Denmark and then went back to Cologne in 1865. There he worked as a freelance sculptor. At the instigation of the city of Cologne and the Cologne district government , he founded a commercial drawing school in 1871 , to which he remained connected as a teacher and director until 1896. From 1893 to 1900 he was a city ​​councilor in Cologne. In 1902 he was awarded the title of professor.

Albermann left an extraordinarily extensive sculptural work. The statues of Ferdinand Franz Wallraf and Johann Heinrich Richartz , which are in front of the Museum of Applied Arts in Cologne, come from him. Further works include the Jan-von-Werth -Brunnen on the Alter Markt and the Hermann-Joseph-Brunnen on the Waidmarkt. His building sculptures adorn numerous Cologne private houses and monumental buildings in the Rhineland, and he created altars, figures of the Madonna and saints for churches. Wilhelm Albermann found his final resting place in the Melaten cemetery (Lit L., between Lit Q. and the Wall). About twenty tombs are known that were created in his studio for distinguished Cologne families and also erected there; not all of them are preserved today.

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Public monuments, fountains, sculptures

Fairytale fountain in Wuppertal
Hermann Pflaume grave, Melaten cemetery, Cologne
Sinzig:
Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa
  • Cologne
  • Krefeld
    • Statue of Helmuth von Moltke
  • Mönchengladbach
    • Crucifixion group 1902 (destroyed in the war)
  • High reliefs in the Stations of the Cross of the Moresnet-Chapelle pilgrimage site (in Moresnet-Chapelle (Eikschen); Belgium)
    • 14 pictures of the stations of the cross at the Franciscan Church
  • Remagen
    • Francis statue on Mount Apollinaris
  • Sinzig
    • Statue of Friedrich Barbarossa
      The statue of the Staufer emperor with a height of 4.5 meters was created on the occasion of the silver wedding of the Bungees in 1875. In 1951 the monument was moved to the park below the Catholic parish church of St. Peter.
  • Solingen
    • Figure of a blade smith on a fountain in the Alter Markt, created in 1895 and destroyed in 1944
    • War memorial ( "Solingen to his heroic sons who fell for King and Fatherland in 1870–1871" ), ceremoniously unveiled on October 18, 1875. Torn down on November 30, 1955 for urban planning reasons; the metal parts have been scrapped.
  • trier
  • Viersen - addicts
    • Circular war memorial for the fallen in the war of 1870/1871 on the Süchtelner Heights, relief portrait of Kaiser Wilhelm I, memorial plaques and corner stones with the battlefields
  • Wuppertal

gallery

  • Seated portrait of Ferdinand Franz Wallraf

  • Seat picture Johann Heinrich Richartz

  • Hermann Pflaume grave, Melaten cemetery, Cologne

  • Jan von Werth Fountain

  • Fairytale fountain in Wuppertal

literature

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Albermann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Josef Abt, Johann Ralf Beines, Celia Körber-Leupold: Melaten - Cologne graves and history. Greven, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-7743-0305-3 , pp. 47, 161.
personal data
SURNAME Albermann, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Albermann, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Be at the Ruhr
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1913
Place of death Cologne