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

Life

Felderhoff was born in Elbing, West Prussia (Elbląg, Poland). He entered the Prussian Academy of Arts in 1880 and studied there under Fritz Schaper until 1884, after which he became a Master Student in the studio of

Reinhold Begas Reinhold Begas (15 July 1831 – 3 August 1911) was a German sculptor. Biography Begas was born in Berlin, son of the painter Carl Joseph Begas. He received his early education (1846–1851) studying under Christian Daniel Rauch and Ludwig ...

. 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 ( Zeughaus, now the German Historical Museum). 1890 and 1891 brought another stay in Rome. He then helped his mentor, Begas, to complete the National Kaiser Wilhelm Monument, for which he received a medal in 1897. Felderhoff joined the Berlin Secession and became a member of the Academy in 1913. He was named a Professor there in 1917 and died in Berlin in 1919.

Work

His model of Albert the Bear 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 Johannes Boese (27 December 1856, Ostrog (near Ratibor) - 20 April 1917, Berlin), also spelled Böse, was a German sculptor and art professor. Life and work Boese was originally trained as a wood carver, then attended the vocational school i ...

, it enabled Felderhoff to negotiate a commission for a statue and busts in the

Siegesallee The Siegesallee (, ''Victory Avenue'') was a broad boulevard in Berlin, Germany. In 1895, Kaiser Wilhelm II ordered and financed the expansion of an existing avenue, to be adorned with a variety of marble statues. Work was completed in 1901. A ...

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 Kaiser Wilhelm is a common reference to two German emperors: * Wilhelm I, German Emperor (1797–1888) * Wilhelm II, German Emperor (1859–1941) Kaiser Wilhelm may also refer to: * Kaiser Wilhelm (baseball) (1874–1936), early 20th century bas ...

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

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, which was displayed at the

Exposition Universelle (1900) The Exposition Universelle of 1900, better known in English as the 1900 Paris Exposition, was a world's fair held in Paris, France, from 14 April to 12 November 1900, to celebrate the achievements of the past century and to accelerate developmen ...

. 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 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 ...

. * 1898/1899: Seated figure of Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen; 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;

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. * 1901: Seated figure of

Johannes Brahms Johannes Brahms (; 7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the mid- Romantic period. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, he spent much of his professional life in Vienna. He is sometimes grouped wit ...

; in the vestibule of the Brahms Institute at the

Lübeck Academy of Music The Lübeck Academy of Music (german: Musikhochschule Lübeck) in Lübeck, Germany, is the only higher level music school in the northernmost state of Schleswig-Holstein. The school is located in the World Heritage city of Lübeck, a historic hanse ...

. * 1903: Amphitrite Fountain;

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Life

Work

Other selected major projects

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