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

Life

Born in Düsseldorf, the son of the landscape painter , he studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with 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.

Friedrich Noack Friedrich Noack, who wrote under the pseudonym ''F. Idus'', (20 April 1858, Gießen – 1 February 1930, Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau) was a German cultural historian and author, who wrote several articles for the Künstlerlexikon (arts dictionar ...

: ''Das Deutschtum in Rom seit dem Ausgang des Mittelalters.'' Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1927, vol. 2,
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. 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 Große Berliner Kunstausstellung (Great Berlin Art Exhibition), abbreviated GroBeKa or GBK, was an annual art exhibition that existed from 1893 to 1969 with intermittent breaks. In 1917 and 1918, during World War I, it was not held in Berlin bu ...

. He was a member of the . 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 The Stahnsdorf South-Western Cemetery (german: Südwestfriedhof Stahnsdorf der Berliner Synode) is a Protestant rural cemetery in Germany. Established in 1909, the cemetery is located in the municipality of Stahnsdorf in Potsdam-Mittelmark dist ...

near Berlin.

Work

* 1879: ''Genius der Kunst'', on the façade of the former Kunsthalle in Düsseldorf (lost) * 1883: Colossal statue of

Frederick William I of Prussia Frederick William I (german: Friedrich Wilhelm I.; 14 August 1688 – 31 May 1740), known as the "Soldier King" (german: Soldatenkönig), was King in Prussia and Elector of Brandenburg from 1713 until his death in 1740, as well as Prince of Neuch ...

in the Hall of Fame at Berlin Zeughaus * 1888: Lessing-Denkmal in Berlin. According to Meyer's Großes Konversations-Lexikon, Hilgers won first prize in the competition in 1887; the sculptor was Otto Lessing. * 1890: Kriegerdenkmal in Düsseldorf Court Garden * 1894: Equestrian monument of William I, German Emperor in Stettin * 1897: Marble figure ''Muse'' ( Nationalgalerie Berlin) * 1907: Marble statue ''Judith'' * 1912: Minerva fountain in front of the

Alte Bibliothek The Alte Bibliothek (), nicknamed Kommode (Commode), is a listed building on Bebelplatz in the historic centre of Berlin. It was erected by order of Frederick the Great from 1774 to 1780 according to plans by Georg Christian Unger and Georg Frie ...

in Berlin * Marble group ''Eva an Abels Leiche'' * Bronze statue '' Rudolf I of Germany'', in Hamburg City Hall on the market side between the window niches * four virtues as allegorical limestone figures for the

Reichstag building The Reichstag (, ; officially: – ; en, Parliament) is a historic government building in Berlin which houses the Bundestag, the lower house of Germany's parliament. It was constructed to house the Imperial Diet (german: Reichstag) of the ...

in Berlin * Two bronze reliefs for the Dirksen grave monument at Matthäikirchhof in Berlin

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