Xaver Arnold

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Xaver Arnold (born February 17, 1848 in Sursee , Canton Lucerne , Switzerland ; † August 14, 1929 in Hamburg ) was a Swiss sculptor who worked in Germany.

Life

Tomb at the Ohlsdorf cemetery

The son of a caretaker in Etzelwil , attended secondary school and was apprenticed to the sculptor Franz Sales Amlehn (1838–1931) in Sursee in 1863. He then went on a journey through western Switzerland, then worked for a sculptor in Lucerne, where he particularly familiarized himself with the technique of woodcut as well as with church figures and ornaments. After further years of wandering he completed a technical training at the preschool of the Vienna Art Academy and enrolled in the register of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich on November 27, 1868 . Here he studied, among other things, in the sculpting class of Professor Max Widnmann (1812–1895), student and successor of Ludwig von Schwanthaler . His former teacher Anlehn had also been a student of Widmann from 1864 onwards. Then he was a teacher for drawing and modeling at the "Ducal Building Trade School" in Holzminden , headed by Gustav Haarmann, and then a freelance sculptor in Hamburg. Here he received several orders from the Hamburg magistrate. He was friends with the architect and Ohlsdorf cemetery director Wilhelm Cordes . The numerous orders for tombs in the cemetery are also related to this. He and his wife Sofia were also buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery, near the “Swiss burial ground” (plan fields L14 and L15). The tombstone, which is crowned by the bust of a grieving woman, who covers her face with her right hand, bears the inscription “SCULPTOR / XAVER ARNOLD / AUS TRIENGEN / 1848 - 1929 / SOFIA ARNOLD / 1843 - 1923”.

Xaver Arnold lived in Malzweg 2; his studio was in Hammerbrookstrasse. 15. He was a member of the Hamburg Artists 'Association and was represented in the 1908 anniversary exhibition on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Artists' Association. He also exhibited in 1905, 1906, 1908 (anniversary exhibition of the Künstlerverein) and in 1909 in the exhibitions of the Kunstverein in Hamburg , of which he was also a member.

Works

Arnold created monumental statues as commissioned work, but mainly portraits and a few figurative scenes as relief:

  • Concrete cast of the Bremen Roland figure, donated by the citizens of Hamburg and carried out by Xaver Arnold; Installed in the Reichshof of the Hamburg Museum in 1880; Demolished in 1968 after considerable war damage.
  • Monument to General José Custodio Cayetano García Rovira (1780–1816), first President of New Granada, 1907, in Bucaramanga, Parque García Rovira
  • Memorial to Matthäus Friedrich Chemnitz (1815–1870) in Uetersen, 1908 (Chemnitz wrote the text of the song Schleswig-Holstein in 1844 ).
  • Magelland Monument at the Kornhausbrücke in Hamburg; of the former group of four statues, only those of "Columbus" and "Vasco da Gama" are preserved; the monuments to "Magellan" and "James Cook" were destroyed in the war.
  • Bronze relief (boat trip to the Tell Chapel on Lake Lucerne) on the Swiss burial site (L14 / L 15), 1899
  • Christ statue in the Ohlsdorf cemetery, gift from Friedrich Wencke , Hamburg 1904

Tombs in the Ohlsdorfer Friedhof, Hamburg:

  • Stahmer tomb; Bust of Senator Johann Friedrich Thomas Stahmer (1819–1896), 1898. Stahmer was President of the Cemetery Deputation.
  • Family grave Syndicus Dr. Carl Ludwig Leo , half-length portrait in round relief, 1899
  • Breuer family grave, mourners at the foot of a cross, 1899
  • Halben family grave, half-profile portrait, relief, 1903. Johannes Halben (1829–1902), educator, member of the Hamburg parliament
  • CAH Jacob tomb (Bautzen 1842–1902 Hamburg), 1903
  • Grave of Friedrich Wencke (1842–1905), Hamburg shipbuilder and shipowner, 1905
  • Tomb of the family of the master bricklayer and building contractor Paul Eckler (1847–1915), 1905
  • Botsch tomb, 2.30 meter high angel, 1905.
  • Tomb Johann Martin Lappenberg , historian and archivist, portrait relief (head), 1906; In 1905 he was reburied from the St. Georg cemetery to the Old Hamburg Memorial Cemetery
  • Vincent Placcius tomb (1642–1699), 1906, Old Hamburg Memorial Cemetery (as before)
  • Volbehr tomb (1906)
  • Petersen ex Neugebauer tomb, 1908, arrival of Maria Martha Neugebauer (1868–1906) in heaven, relief
  • Gravestone, Friedrich Robert Nitzsche (1855–1910), director of a sanatorium in Dresden, hunting utensils, relief, 1910
  • Tombs of Carl Heinrich Theodor Oberländer, Alexander Hünecke and Wilhelm Hiestrich, cigarette manufacturer, Hamburg; Lord Mayor Busse, Lüneburg; Spörcken in Altenburg (probably Werner von Spörcken, 1824–1899)

literature

  • Karl Barton (Ed.): Master Archive. Gallery of contemporaries of Germany from the fields of the visual, building and technical arts . Adolf Eckstein, Berlin 1903.
  • Hermann's Erben (Ed.): Hamburg address book 1904 (online): Arnold, Xaver, Sculptor, Hammerbrookstr. 15, living. Malzweg 2. ( digitized version )
  • Emil Benezé: Arnold, Xaver . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 2 : Antonio da Monza-Bassan . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1908, p. 134 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Christine Behrens: Sculptor and plastic art on the Ohlsdorf cemetery. ( online )
  • Arnold, Xaver. In: Ernst Rump : Lexicon of visual artists in Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area . Otto Bröcker, Hamburg 1912, pp. 4-5. ( Digitized version )
  • Maike Bruhns : Arnold, Xaver. In: Family Rump (ed.): The new Rump. Lexicon of visual artists from Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area. Revised new edition of Ernst Rump's dictionary. Supplemented and revised by Maike Bruhns, Wachholtz, Neumünster 2013, ISBN 978-3-529-02792-5 , p. 17.
  • Jean Ritter: burial place of the Swiss colony in Hamburg. In: The Bern Week in words and pictures. A sheet for native art and art. Volume 3, Issue 45, 1913.

Web links

Commons : Xaver Arnold  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 02468 Xaver Arnold, matriculation book 1841–1884, entry in the matriculation book (accessed on 01/09/19)
  2. ↑ Matriculation No. 02074 Franz Sales Amlehn
  3. ↑ Figure: https://fredriks.de > ohlsdorf
  4. ↑ Hermann's Erben (Ed.): Hamburg Address Book 1904, 1923 (online)
  5. ↑ Annual reports of the Kunstverein in Hamburg 1905–1909
  6. ↑ Frank Matthias Kammel , in: [PDF] MUSEUM https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de  ›index.php› issue ›download, with historical illustration
  7. ↑ Paseo por los bustos y estatuas Encuentros profanos con la historia by Leonardo Álvarez, Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga, "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2007-07-27
  8. ↑ E. Rump (1912), p. 5
personal data
SURNAME Arnold, Xaver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Sursee
DATE OF DEATH August 14, 1929
Place of death Hamburg