Wilhelm von Rümann (11 November 1850 in Hanover – 6 February 1906 in

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) was a prominent German sculptor, based in

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Life

Rümann was born in

Hanover Hanover ( ; ; ) is the capital and largest city of the States of Germany, German state of Lower Saxony. Its population of 535,932 (2021) makes it the List of cities in Germany by population, 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-l ...

. He studied from 1872 to 1874 at the

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(''Akademie der Bildenden Künste München''), and from 1880 with Michael Wagmüller.''Künstlerlexikon des Werdenfelser Landes'' From 1887 he taught at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. In 1891 he was raised to the nobility. As well as numerous funerary monuments in the

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(Old South Burial Ground) in Munich, he created sculptures which are still to be seen in the city: monuments for

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(1895, in the courtyard of the

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Max von Pettenkofer Max Joseph Pettenkofer, ennobled in 1883 as Max Joseph von Pettenkofer (3 December 1818 – 10 February 1901) was a Bavarian chemist and hygienist. He is known for his work in practical hygiene, as an apostle of good water, fresh air and proper ...

(1909) and

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(1886) at the Maximiliansplatz (now the Lenbachplatz), the ''Puttenbrunnen'' (Putti Fountain) at the Peace Monument in the Prinzregentenstraße (originally intended for

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) and the marble lions in front of the

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(1906). Among his pupils were Bernhard Bleeker,

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and

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. He died in

, Corsica, and is buried in the Nordfriedhof ("Northern Cemetery"), Munich.

Works (public monuments)

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: **

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: equestrian statue in the market place; sent for scrap after 1945 ** Bismarck Statue (1899), to the left; sent for scrap after 1945 **

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Statue, to the right; sent for scrap after 1945 *

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: ** Kaiser Wilhelm I Monument (1895), originally in front of the Harmonie Concert and Congress Centre, now in the ''Alter Friedhof'' (Old Graveyard) in the Weinsberger Straße ** Robert Mayer Statue, in the market place *Munich: ** Monument of

, 1895 ** Funerary monument of

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** Several statues of Prince Luitpold of Bavaria, the Prince Regent, including one in the south-west of Siedlung Neuhausen ** Bust of Princess Theresa of Bavaria (in the

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) ** Bust of

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in the

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** and many others *

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: ** Kaiser Wilhelm I equestrian statue (1905) (designed and begun by

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, who died in 1903; completed by Rümann), Egidienplatz, in front of the Pellerhaus ** Statue of Prince Regent Luitpold (1901), station forecourt, removed in 1934, melted down in 1939 *

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: ** Kaiser Wilhelm I equestrian statue (1898) *

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: bust of Bismarck in the Schloßstraße * Woerth, Alsace, France: Bavarian National War Memorial 1870, made 1889

Gallery

File:Robert-Mayer-Denkmal.JPG, Heilbronn:
Greater than life-sized bronze figure of

Julius Robert von Mayer Julius Robert von Mayer (25 November 1814 – 20 March 1878) was a German physician, chemist, and physicist and one of the founders of thermodynamics. He is best known for enunciating in 1841 one of the original statements of the conservation ...

(1892) File:Heilbronn-kw-denkmal.jpg, Heilbronn:
Kaiser Wilhelm Monument (1893) (based on designs by Ludwig Pfau) File:Heilbronn-kw-denkmal-detail.JPG, Heilbronn:
Detail of the Kaiser Wilhelm Monument in the Alter Friedhof File:Feldherrnhalle, Monumente.jpg, Munich:
Lion in front of the

File:Loewe Feldherrnhalle Muenchen-1.jpg, Munich:
Lion in front of the Feldherrnhalle File:Loewenbraeukeller Muenchen-2.jpg, Munich:
Lion on the terrace of the Löwenbräukeller File:Rückert Denkmal SW.jpg, Schweinfurt

Friedrich Rückert Johann Michael Friedrich Rückert (16 May 1788 – 31 January 1866) was a German poet, translation, translator, and professor of Oriental languages. Biography Johann Michael Friedrich Rückert was born 16 May 1788 in Schweinfurt and was the e ...

monument

Notes and references

Sources

* ''Rümann, Wilhelm von''. In: Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker u. a.: Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Band 29, E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1935
Matrikeldatenbank der Akademie der Bildenden Künste: Wilhelm von Rümann (1850–1906)

External links

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rumann, Wilhelm Von Artists from Hanover Artists from Munich German sculptors German male sculptors 1850 births 1906 deaths Burials at the Nordfriedhof (Munich)