Wilhelm Tophinke

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Wilhelm Tophinke (born September 28, 1892 in Clarholz , † May 24, 1961 in Brühl ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Statue of St. Anthony of Padua in the parish church of St. Antonius in Koblenz-Lützel
Statue of St. Menas in the parish church of St. Menas in Koblenz-Stolzenfels

Wilhelm Tophinke was born on September 28, 1892 in Clarholz (today: Herzebrock-Clarholz in the Gütersloh district ) as the third of six children of the farmer Franz Tophinke and his wife Maria Anna Menke.

After completing elementary school , he received his training in the art workshops of the Wiedenbrücker sculptor Heinrich Hartmann. Then he completed his knowledge in Erkelenz and Kleve . After the First World War, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , including with Bernhard Bleeker, and then settled in Koblenz . In 1928 he married his wife Genoveva "Eva" Montermann, who helped him over existential difficulties with her vegetable trade. During the Second World War , his apartment was destroyed and he and his wife returned to their home town of Clarholz. In 1945 Wilhelm Tophinke settled in Brühl at the invitation of the state curator.

He had a close friendship with the Cologne cathedral builder Willy Weyres .

Wilhelm Tophinke died on May 24, 1961 in Brühl and is buried in the local cemetery.

Works

  • Grave monuments and cross in the Clarholz cemetery
  • Cross on the Canon Cemetery in Cologne
  • High Cross, Way of the Cross and statue of the parish priest in St. Karl Borromäus Cologne-Sülz
  • Figure of Mary, the Coronation of Mary and the bronze Way of the Cross in St. Mary's Assumption in Cologne-Holweide
  • Madonna, St. Johann Baptist Cologne-Höhenhaus
  • Chapel - wooden statue of St. Hubertus in Birresdorf
  • Way of the Cross in the Stromberg parish church
  • Marienbrunnen on the market square in Oelde
  • Way of the Cross in the World Peace Church in Hiroshima / Japan
  • Altar cross and stations of the cross of the catholic church St. Kilian, Wiesbaden
  • Pieta in the Birkhof Chapel, Brühl-Badorf. Donated in 1952 by the Catholic men's organization in the dean's office in Brühl
  • Two reclining lion figures on the southern circular building of Koblenz Palace , 1936
  • Statue of St. Anthony of Padua in the parish church of St. Antonius in Koblenz-Lützel
  • Statue of St. Menas in the parish church of St. Menas in Koblenz-Stolzenfels, 1940
  • Votive figure "Christ" on the occasion of the happy return of the residents of Saarlouis from the first evacuation (1939–1940) in the parish church of St. Ludwig during World War II
  • Pietà made of two hundred year old oak, which was taken from a Roden house that was destroyed in the Second World War , in the Church of the Assumption of Mary (Roden)
  • Renewal of 8 destroyed coats of arms on the marble epitaph of Elisabeth von Schwarzenberg in the pilgrimage church of the painful mother of God in Bödingen from 1599

literature

  • Clarholz and Lette in the past and present - 1133–1983. Oelde 1983
  • Parish letter of the parish of St. Laurentius Clarholz v. December 9, 2001.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birresdorf.de: Photo and further information ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Catholic Parish Office St. Ludwig in Saarlouis (Ed.): St. Ludwig - Saarlouis, Erolzheim 1960, p. 15.
personal data
SURNAME Tophinke, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Clarholz
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 1961
Place of death Bruehl