Emil Jungblut, also Emil Jungbluth written, (11 June 1888 – 24 April 1955) was a German sculptor.

Life

Born in Düsseldorf, Jungblut first attended the

Kunstgewerbeschule Düsseldorf The Kunstgewerbeschule Düsseldorf was opened on 3 April 1883 and closed at the end of the school year 1918. In 1919, its architectur training was transferred to the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Training offered The education placed its emphas ...

and later became a master student at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. To broaden his knowledge, he spent some time in Paris and made several trips to France, Italy and the Netherlands. Jungblut was a member of the Malkasten Artist association, of which he was a member of the board for a long time. In the early 1930s Jungblut had moved to Düsseldorf-Oberkassel and was given a studio in the Neue Akademie in Stockum. In the 1940s Jungblut's studio was located in the house at Schanzenstrasse 115, on the site of the barrel warehouse of the factory for chemical oils and fats ''Dr. A. Schmitz''. The homeless messenger boy and model of the art academy also lived here among the barrels of the warehouse. Jungblut had his work carried out in the in Düsseldorf-Oberkassel. August Bischoff in Düsseldorf-Oberkassel. In this bronze and iron foundry, bronze statues from the surrounding area were melted down for armament purposes during the Second World War.

Family

Jungblut was a son of the landscape painter (1860-1912), who came to Düsseldorf from Saarburg near Trier in 1885. His brothers Walter (1892-1941) and Hans were also painters. Walter Jungblut's wife was also a Düsseldorf painter. She was born Johanette Blum in Benrath in 1909 and died in Düsseldorf in 2003 at the age of 66.

Work

Thematically, Jungblut devoted most of his work to portraits. However, he also created a number of animal sculptures and free figures. In 1913 and 1920, he participated in exhibitions with masks, portrait figures and sculptures of dancers and received critical acclaim. Numerous small sculptures such as ''Salome'', ''Colombine'', ''Harlequin'' and portraits by Jungblut, for example the bust of Reich President Paul von Hindenburg, are now privately owned. Around 1933, Jungblut made a bronze bust of

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and in 1939 a bust of Ernst Eduard vom Rath, which is now presented in the . The 1943 marble bust of Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi now stands in the entrance to the

Malkastenpark The Malkastenpark (Paintbox park) is a historic private park, now in the centre of Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The name refers to a group of artists, Malkasten, founded in 1848. The park is also known as the Jacobigarten, afte ...

Exhibitions

* 1913: Große Kunstausstellung Düsseldorf * 1939: Große Deutsche Kunstausstellung, Munich. * 1941: Große Deutsche Kunstausstellung, Munich. * 1956: Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen in the Alte Kunsthalle at

Works in the open

* ''Heinrich-Heine-Büste'' (1909), Marmor, Bolkerstraße, Düsseldorf * ''Hartwarder Friese'' (1914), Rodenkirchen, Friesendenkmal zum Andenken an die

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von 1514 * ''Ehrendenkmal für gefallene deutsche Soldaten'' (1918), Thiaucourt, France * '' Kiepenkerl'' (ca. 1920), auf dem Dach des ehemaligen Pavillons am Worringer Platz, Düsseldorf * ''Muschelkalkportale mit Kinderfiguren'' (ca. 1926), Lutherkirche, Kopernikusstraße 9, Düsseldorf-Bilk * ''Rheinschiffer um 1850'' (ca. 1930), Muschelkalk auf Kalksteinplatte, am Robert-Lehr-Ufer nördlich der Rheinterrasse am Biergarten sowie am Rheinpark Golzheim, Düsseldorf. * ''

Friedrich Karl Henkel Friedrich ("Fritz") Karl Henkel (* March 20, 1848 in Vöhl; † March 1, 1930 in Rengsdorf) was a German entrepreneur and founder of the Henkel Group. Early life Fritz Henkel was born as the fifth child of his parents, the teacher Johann Jost ...

-Denkmal'' (1938) on the

Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, commonly known as Henkel, is a German multinational chemical and consumer goods company headquartered in Düsseldorf, Germany. It is active in both the consumer and industrial sectors. Founded in 1876, the DAX company is organi ...

Factory site, Düsseldorf-Holthausen * ''Eisenbahn-Gedenktafel'' (1938) in north tunnel of the Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof on the 100th anniversary of the first railway line in GermanyGedenktafel im Düsseldorfer Hauptbahnhof
/ref> * ''Zwirnmeisterin'' (1939) for the company, Hilden * ''Willi-Weidenhaupt-Büste'' (1940), Haus, Mertensgasse 1, Düsseldorf

References

External links

Emil Jungblut in Stadt Hilden; Arbeitsgruppe Geoportal
, retrievred 5 September 2021 {{DEFAULTSORT:Jungblut, Emil 20th-century German sculptors Art Deco sculptors 1888 births 1955 deaths Artists from Düsseldorf