Background
Burgeff was born in Würzburg, the son of Hans Burgeff, university professor of botany.
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Burgeff was born in Würzburg, the son of Hans Burgeff, university professor of botany.
He first studied "General Science" (German: Allgemeine Naturwissenschaften) at the University of Würzburg, but afterwards studied the history of art in Stuttgart and in Tübingen. In 1951 he transferred to the Kölner Werkschulen, where he studied sculpture and modelling with Professor Ludwig Gies and was nominated "master student" (Meisterschüler) in 1956.
Foreign the "public effectiveness" (German: öffentliche Wirksamkeit) of Burgeff"s figures, reliefs and plaques, the memorial tablet in Münster for Cardinal Höffner of 1993 is especially representative. Other works of the artist are to be found, among other places, in the sculpture park of Schloss Moyland and at Cologne Cathedral. Burgeff died in Lohmar and was buried in Weibern in the Eifel.
His gravestone, representing two wheatsheaves, was made by his last master student, Ulrich Görtz.
His estate, insofar as it related to medal making, was given to the coin and medal collection of the Berlin State Museums.