Reinhold Carl Thusmann Felderhoff (25 February 1865 – 18 December 1919) was a German sculptor.

Life

Felderhoff was born in Elbing,

West Prussia The Province of West Prussia (german: Provinz Westpreußen; csb, Zôpadné Prësë; pl, Prusy Zachodnie) was a province of Prussia from 1773 to 1829 and 1878 to 1920. West Prussia was established as a province of the Kingdom of Prussia in 177 ...

(Elbląg, Poland). He entered the

Prussian Academy of Arts The Prussian Academy of Arts (German: ''Preußische Akademie der Künste'') was a state arts academy first established in Berlin, Brandenburg, in 1694/1696 by prince-elector Frederick III, in personal union Duke Frederick I of Prussia, and late ...

in 1880 and studied there under

Fritz Schaper Fritz (Friedrich) Schaper (31 July 1841, Alsleben – 29 November 1919, Berlin) was a German sculptor. Life He was orphaned at an early age, and was sent to Halle to receive instruction at the Francke Foundations. After being apprenticed as ...

until 1884, after which he became a Master Student in the studio of Reinhold Begas. 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 (

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, now the

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). 1890 and 1891 brought another stay in Rome. He then helped his mentor, Begas, to complete the

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, for which he received a medal in 1897. Felderhoff joined the

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and became a member of the Academy in 1913. He was named a Professor there in 1917 and died in

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in 1919.

Work

His model of

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drew praise in 1893, when it was entered in a competition to provide figures for the Fisherman's Bridge. Although the contract went to Johannes Boese, it enabled Felderhoff to negotiate a commission for a statue and busts in the

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project and was used as the basis for the central figure; Johann II, Margrave of Brandenburg (Group 6). He was the only Siegesallee sculptor to work in an austere modern style, rather than the favored historical style. (Some changes were made when Kaiser Wilhelm reviewed the sketches, but their nature is unknown). This caused his work to be criticized as "mediocre". One of his best-known works is the statue of Diana, which was displayed at the Exposition Universelle (1900). It has been reproduced and recast many times.

Other selected major projects

Berlin * 1895: ''Die Eitelkeit'' (Vanity); statue for the wardrobe of the Reichstag building. * 1898/1899: Seated figure of

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; 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 Straße. Other cities * 1894–1899: The

Bismarck Monument From 1868 onwards, Bismarck monuments were erected in many parts of the German Empire in honour of the long-serving Prussian minister-president and first German ''Reichskanzler'', Prince Otto von Bismarck. Today some of these monuments are on t ...

; Essen. * 1901: Seated figure of Johannes Brahms; in the vestibule of the Brahms Institute at the Lübeck Academy of Music. * 1903:

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Fountain; Stettin (Szczecin)(destroyed)szczecin.art.pl
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Life

Work

Other selected major projects

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