Hugo Kaufmann
Illustration — Portrait of the Painter Friedrich Wahle by Hugo Kaufmann • Illustration — Goldsmith monument, Martin-Luther-Platz, Augsburg • Illustration — Fritz von Uhde by Hugo Kaufmann, Albertinum, Dresden 1908 Hugo Kaufmann (1868–1919) was a 19th/20th-century German sculptor who created many public statues and memorials. He was also a competent artist in oils but is less known in this field.
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Hugo Kaufmann
Hugo Kaufmann (1868-1919) · Katalog, Ausstellung der Münchner Secession 1899, Abb. 59 · Public domain
- Born
- 1868 · Schotten.
- Died
- 1919 · Munich.
- Nationality
- Germany
- Occupation
- sculptor · university teacher · medalist
- Languages
- German
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Life
Life
He was born in Scots on 29 June 1868 to a Jewish family from Vogelsbergkreis. He attended drawing classes in Hanau from in 1884 then attended the trade school in Frankfurt-am-Main, then studied in the Stadel Art School under Gustav Kaupert. From 1888 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under Wilhelm von Rumann. Staying in Munich he became Professor of Art in 1904. In 1907 he went to Berlin but returned to Munich in 1917. He was a member of the Deutscher Kuenstlerbund. He died in Munich on 14 May 1919.
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Hugo Kaufmann was a sculptor and medallist, born in 1868 in Schotten and died in 1919. Hugo Kaufmann died in Munich, according to the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and the Getty Union List of Artist Names. The Getty Union List of Artist Names records the fuller form Munich, Kreisfreie Stadt München. The birth is recorded by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and the Getty Union List of Artist Names.
Public works
Public works
see • Allegorical figures on Ludwigsbrucke in Munich (1894) destroyed during the Second World War • Sculpture on insurance office, 10 Cardinal Faulhaber Str. Munich (1895) • Goethe medal (1899) • Merkurbrunnen, Munich (1902) • Monument to the Champions of German Unity, Paulsplatz, Frankfurt-am-Main (1903) • Figures of Power and Unity, Bavarian State Chancellery (1905) • Christopher the Strong, on the New Town Hall in Marienplatz, Munich (1908) • Goldsmith monument, Martin-Luther-Platz, Augsburg (1912)
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- 1.(abgerufen am 6. November 2024)
- 2.00540 Hugo Kaufmann, Matrikelbuch 1884–1920. 2007-08-06.
- 3.München Baudenkmäler.
- 4.210.
- 5.Biller / Rasp. München Kunst und Kultur. 2003.
- 6.Biller / Rasp. München Kunst und Kultur. 2003.
- 7.Biller / Rasp. München Kunst und Kultur. 2003.
- 8.Goethemedaille für die 150. Geburtstagsfeier in der Stadt Frankfurt 1899.
- 9.Denkmal für die Vorkämpfer der deutschen Einheit, Frankfurt (Main), Paulsplatz.
- 10.Kunst und Handwerk. 1904.
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