Karl Begas
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Karl Begas (23 November 1845 in
Köthen) was a German sculptor.[1]
To distinguish him from his father, he is often referred to as "the younger".
Life
His father was the history painter
Prussian Academy of Art, where he was a student of Louis Sussmann-Hellborn.[1]
In 1869 and 1870, he took a study trip to Rome, where he completed several portrait busts. After three years back home in Berlin, he returned to Italy, where he lived for five years. In 1880, he made a bust of the
University of Kiel and two for the Kassel City Hall. In 1889, he became a Professor at the Kunsthochschule Kassel, but stayed for only a short time before leaving to take on more public commissions.[1]
From 1904 to 1906, he created a marble statue of
New Palace. For the Siegesallee project he created two groups.[1] Group 7 (1899) contained a statue of Otto IV, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal (nicknamed "Otto with the Arrow"), with busts of Johann von Kröcher (an advisor to the Margrave) and Johann von Buch (Glossator of Sachsenspiegel). In Group 31 (1900), the statue was Frederick William IV of Prussia; the busts were Alexander von Humboldt and Christian Daniel Rauch. Most of the statues in the Siegesallee were heavily damaged in World War II. Many have undergone restoration at the Spandau Citadel
. The head of Begas' Otto IV is in a private collection.
Works
References
- ^ a b c d Eberhard Ruhmer (1953), "Begas,Karl der Jüngere", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 1, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 745–745; (full text online)
Further reading
- Friedrich Noack, Das deutschtum in Rom seit dem Ausgang des Mittelalters, Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, 1927, 2 vols.
- L. Pietsch and B. Künstlerfam: Westermann's Monatshefte, February 1906
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
External links
Media related to Karl Begas at Wikimedia Commons
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