Reinhold Felderhoff

January 25, 1865 (age 54)

Elbląg, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland

1890 and 1891 brought another stay in Rome. He was named a Professor there in 1917. Berlin 1895: Die Eitelkeit (Vanity). Statue for the wardrobe of the Reichstag building. 1898/1899: Seated figure of Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen. On the Potsdam Bridge (dismantled and melted in 1945) 1904: Two large stone benches with hunting motifs. (Tiergarten, destroyed). 1916: Stralauer Fischer. Originally part of a fountain, now at the corner of Neue Krugallee 4 and Bulgarische Straßest Other cities 1894–1899: The Bismarck Monument. Essen. 1901: Seated figure of Johannes Brahms. In the vestibule of the Brahms Institute at the Lübeck Academy of Music. 1903: Amphitrite Fountain.

Reinhold Felderhoff

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Education

He entered the Prussian Academy of Arts in 1880 and studied there under Fritz Schaper until 1884, after which he became a Master Student in the studio of Reinhold Begas.

Career

1890 and 1891 brought another stay in Rome. He was named a Professor there in 1917. Berlin

1895: Die Eitelkeit (Vanity).

Statue for the wardrobe of the Reichstag building.

1898/1899: Seated figure of Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen. On the Potsdam Bridge (dismantled and melted in 1945)

1904: Two large stone benches with hunting motifs.

(Tiergarten, destroyed). 1916: Stralauer Fischer.

Originally part of a fountain, now at the corner of Neue Krugallee 4 and Bulgarische Straßest

Other cities

1894–1899: The Bismarck Monument. Essen. 1901: Seated figure of Johannes Brahms. In the vestibule of the Brahms Institute at the Lübeck Academy of Music.

1903: Amphitrite Fountain.

Achievements

In 1885, he spent a year in Rome on a scholarship, then returned for more work with Begas, remaining there through 1888, although he was doing free-lance work as early as 1887 and won a government contract to sculpt busts of famous generals for the Berlin Armory (Zeughaus, now the German Historical Museum). He then helped his mentor, Begas, to complete the National Kaiser Wilhelm Monument, for which he received a medal in 1897.

Membership

He joined the Berlin Secession and became a member of the Academy in 1913.

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