Hugo Kaufmann
German sculptor
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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.[1]
Life
He was born in Scots on 29 June 1868 to a Jewish family from Vogelsbergkreis.[2]
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.[3]
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.[4]
He died in Munich on 14 May 1919.
Family
Public works
see[5]
- 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)
