Adolf
von Hildebrand (6 October 1847 – 18 January 1921) was a German sculptor. Queer Places:
Academy of Fine Arts, Akademiestraße 2-4, 80799 München, Germania
Academy of Fine Arts, Bingstraße 60, 90480 Nürnberg, Germania
Akademiestraße 2-4, 80799 München, Germania
St Lorenz, Muspillistraße 31, 81925 München, Germania
Adolf
von Hildebrand (6 October 1847 – 18 January 1921) was a German sculptor.
Hildebrand was born at Marburg, the son of Marburg economics professor Bruno Hildebrand. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg, with Kaspar von Zumbusch at the Munich Academy and with Rudolf Siemering in Berlin.[1] From 1873 he lived in Florence in San Francesco, a secularized sixteenth-century monastery. In 1877 he married Irene Schäuffelen.
A friend of Hans von Marées, he designed the architectural setting for the painter's murals in the library of the German Marine Zoological Institute at Naples (1873).[2] He spent a significant amount of time in Munich after 1889, executing a monumental fountain there, the Wittelsbacher Brunnen. He is known for five monumental urban fountains.
Hildebrand worked in a Neo-classical tradition, and set out his artistic theories in his book Das Problem der Form in der Bildenden Kunst ("The Problem of Form in Painting and Sculpture"), published in 1893.[3]
He was ennobled by the King of Bavaria in 1904. He was the father of the painter Eva, Elizabeth, sculptor Irene Georgii-Hildebrand, Sylvie, Bertele, and Catholic theologian Dietrich von Hildebrand.
He died in Munich in 1921.
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