Karl Hilgers

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Karl Hermann Joseph Hubert Hilgers (17 January 1844 – 25 February 1925) was a German sculptor.

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Life

Born in Düsseldorf, the son of the landscape painter Carl Hilgers  [ de ], he studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with August Wittig  [ de ] from 1864 to 1870. During a study trip he lived in Rome from 1873 to 1876. 1876–1895 he worked in Berlin, where he also received the title professor. 1895–1898 he was again active in Rome with a stay in the Villa Strohl-Fern, 1898–1902 in Florence and from 1902 again in Berlin. In the period 1896/1897 he was chairman of the Deutsche Künstlerverein zu Rome. [1] Hilgers created numerous public monuments and competition designs, with which he was frequently represented at exhibitions from 1880 to 1916 (for example in Berlin, Munich and Düsseldorf) and also received prizes. In 1907, he was awarded a small gold medal at the Große Berliner Kunstausstellung. He was a member of the Verein Berliner Künstler  [ de ].

Hilgers was married to Maria, née Andreae. He died in Berlin at the age of 81 and was buried at the Stahnsdorf South-Western Cemetery near Berlin.

Work

Kriegerdenkmal im Hofgarten (Dusseldorf), war memorial commemorating the fallen of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/1871 at the Landskrone in the Hofgarten Dusseldorf Kriegerdenkmal in Duesseldorf-Stadtmitte, von Westen.jpg
Kriegerdenkmal im Hofgarten (Düsseldorf), war memorial commemorating the fallen of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/1871 at the Landskrone in the Hofgarten Düsseldorf

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References

  1. Friedrich Noack: Das Deutschtum in Rom seit dem Ausgang des Mittelalters. Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1927, vol. 2, p. 263 (digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de).

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