Friedrich Brugger
Friedrich Brugger (13 January 1815 – 8 April 1870), was a German sculptor. Brugger was born 13 January 1815 at Munich. He studied at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts, after which he stayed in Italy from 1841 to 1843.
Friedrich Brugger

Friedrich Gustav Adolf Neumann († 20.11.1884) · Illustrirte Zeitung, Bd. 54 (1870), S. 448. · Public domain
- Name
- Friedrich Brugger
- Born
- 13 January 1815
- Birthplace
- Munich
- Died
- 8 April 1870
- Occupation
- sculptor
- Nationality
- Germany
- Education
- Academy of Fine Arts and Munich
- Teachers
- Ludwig Michael Schwanthaler
- Languages
- German
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Friedrich Brugger (13 January 1815 – 8 April 1870), was a German sculptor. Brugger was born 13 January 1815 at Munich. He studied at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts, after which he stayed in Italy from 1841 to 1843.
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He returned to Munich where he received commissions from Ludwig I of Bavaria, including busts in the Ruhmeshalle and large bronze statues. Together with Johann Martin von Wagner and Johann von Halbig, he created the Quadriga on the Siegestor (Victory Gate) arch in Munich. He designed and modelled the sculptured form for the monument to Maximilian II, cast in 1860 by Ferdinand von Miller, for the central square of the Altes Schloss (Old Palace) on Maximilianstraße in Bayreuth. • Illustration — Friedrich Brugger's grave at the Old South Cemetery, Munich Brugger died 8 April 1870, and is buried in the Alter Südfriedhof (Old South Cemetery) in Munich (Area 16, Row 10, Plot 26; at).

Grab von Friedrich Brugger (1815-1870) auf dem Alten Suedlichen Friedhof in Muenchen-Graeberfeld GF-16-10-26
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• Name — Friedrich Brugger • Born — 13 January 1815 • Birthplace — Munich • Died — 8 April 1870 • Place of death — Munich • Occupation — sculptor
Selected works
Selected works
• 1848: Monument to Christoph Willibald Gluck at the Promenadeplatz in Munich • 1852: Tomb of Johannes von Müller at the Altstädter Friedhof in Kassel (with Leo von Klenze; dismantled 1936, reconstructed 2009) • 1857: Monument to Jakob Fugger on Philippine-Welser-Strasse in Augsburg • 1857: Guard portrait by Hermann von Vicari in the Augustiner Museum at Freiburg im Breisgau • 1858: Monument to Duke Louis the Rich, in Landshut • 1860: Monument to Carl Philipp von Wrede in Heidelberg (dismantled and melted down, 17 April 1940) • 1861: Monument to Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling on the Maximilianstraße, Munich • 1861: Monument to the Elector Maximilian II at the Promenadeplatz, Munich • 1867: Monument to Leo von Klenze at the Gärtnerplatz, Munich • Illustration — Monument to Leo von Klenze, Munich • Illustration — Monument to Max II Emanuel, Munich • Illustration — Grave monument bust of Ernst von Lasaulx • Illustration — Grave monument to Leo von Klenze • Illustration — Monument to Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov, Odessa
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- 1."Friedrich Brugger", Bayerisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege, March 2018
- 2.Schöll, Eberhard; Heidelbergens Promenade ziert ein stolzer Bronzeheld Marschall Wrede, den voll Gnade dort sein König aufgestellt, Heidelberger Geschichtsverein, 9 July 1964 (in German)
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- Pecht, Friedrich; Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB), "Brugger, Friedrich", Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 409.
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