Friedrich Reusch

Johann Friedrich Reusch ( born September 5, 1843 in Siegen, † October 15, 1906 in Agrigento ) was a German sculptor.

Life

Reusch, born in Siegen Post Road, was the son of an old established belonging to the year 1658 in Siegen detectable family of craftsmen master carpenter and learned in the workshop of his father, first the carpentry. After August Kiß had become aware by Reusch carvings on his artistic talent and advised to study, he went in 1863 to Berlin. He was until 1867 a student of the Art Academy and worked from 1866 to 1872 in the studio of Albert Wolff on a monument of Frederick William III. and Wolff relief for the Berlin Victory Column. In 1872 he was awarded the Michael -Beer Foundation. Based on the good end result of his studies, Reusch was granted a scholarship to a multi-year stay in Italy. In 1872, he then went to Italy, where he stayed until 1874 in Rome.

He then opened in Berlin in a sculptor's studio. From 1881 he taught, according to appointment at the local academy, as a professor in Königsberg, most recently as director of the art academy. This is also an Honorary Doctorate of Arts, he was awarded. 1904 forced him in 1900 its start acquiring heart disease to give up his teaching. The fact that he brought up the national feeling of the Germans with numerous works, certainly favored his success in the Empire. 1906 died Friedrich Reusch, who was not married, whose housekeeper Rosa but accompanied him through his life, during a vacation trip to Sicily. He was buried in the cemetery Lindenberg in his hometown.

Works

After his return from Italy in 1874, he became known by the large sculptures he designed, inter alia:

• A war memorial in his home town of Siegen (1877 )
• The marble group of the market traffic on the Belle- Alliance Bridge (now Halle Gate Bridge ) in Berlin- Kreuzberg ( lost) (1879 )
• The life-size group: Psyche Cerberus soothing
• Cupid with the helmet of Mars (marble)
• Triumph of Cupid over Hercules (marble)
• Triton boy on a dolphin
• The demon of the steam ( 1880) and some busts

A happy union was the 1880 modeled, strange demon invented the steam that was later cast in bronze and placed in the atrium of the Technische Hochschule in Charlottenburg.

In 1881 he was appointed as a teacher at the Art Academy in Königsberg, where he out numerous busts and decorative figures for public buildings, the monuments for the astronomer Bessel and the ophthalmologist Jacobson, the bronze statue of Duke Albrecht of Prussia (1891 revealed ), the colossal statue of Emperor William I in his coronation robes in front of the castle (1894 ) and a statue of Bismarck (1901 ) created. The equestrian statues of Emperor William I in Siegen (1892 ), Munster (1897 ) and Duisburg (1898 ) are due to him. From its genre painting works a Cerberus soothing psyche, a cupid with the helmets of Mars, the Triumph of Cupid over Hercules and Triton boy be highlighted on a dolphin.

Works in his native city of Siegen

Two -than-life statues have their place on the victory bridge in Siegen. The bronze figures, called " Henner and Frieder ," represent a miner and a metallurgist and are symbols of ore mining and smelting of the ore in the winning country. Created the two figures of Friedrich Reusch at an industrial exhibition in 1902 in Dusseldorf.

The Germania monument in the Fissmeranlage victory in Upper Town, next to the Nikolai Church is about 2.5 meters high, not counting the base. The origin goes back to an initiative of Julius Debel in the summer of 1873. The shaped stone monument was given in Berlin at Friedrich Reusch in contract, built it has Ms Spies. From Berlin but it was done only after victories after the magistrate and the city council of victories donated a grant of 6,000 marks. Victoria was erected and inaugurated on August 6, 1877. 's Capital for the monument was applied by means of raffles, collections, donations and concerts.

Inaugurated in 1892 in Siegen Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial brought Friedrich Reusch much praise and recognition. Until the end of World War II it has stood in its place on the market square, then it is " gone ". It was, like the statue of Bismarck melted down.

In Siegerlandmuseum addition, there is a marble bust of himself porträtierende and the busts of his parents. It is also near the Martini church in a park he created a bust of Adolph Diesterweg to see that here was unveiled on October 29, 1890, although other sources assign them the brother Friedrich Reusch, Edward Reusch.