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Peter Pöppelmann - Peter Poeppelmann GERMAN SCULPTOR
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The Works of Peter Poppelmann (Poeppelmann)
by David Freeman
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Peter Poeppelmann - Peter Pöppelmann: German Sculptor and Draftsman A Biography
Peter Poeppelmann (Peter Pöppelmann) was a talented German sculptor and draftsman who was born on April 24th 1866 in the town of Harswinkel in district of Gütersloh, Westphalia, Germany.
At the age of twenty in 1886 Peter Pöppelmann (Poeppelmann) worked as a journeyman (a senior apprentice) in various German cathedrals restoring and creating ecclesiastical furniture before joining the sculptor Henry Fleige in Munster where he continued his artistic and sculptural training. < Small Bronzed reproduction sculpture by Peter Pöppelmann; (Peter Poeppelmann) The Bather. 1897 Photograph: Jackie Freeman Photography |
By his 26th birthday Peter Pöppelmann (Poeppelmann) was employed as a full time technician in the studio of Bernhard Kurt Roch, a master sculptor in Dresden. There Pöppelmann was able to exercise his artistic talents fully under the guidance of the master craftsman Roch .
also in principal museums in Karlsruhe, Leipzig, Munster and Oldenburg.
Peter Pöppelmann (Poeppelmann) worked in a variety of materials including bronzes and is remembered for his fine and modestly composed figures of nude figures such as the bronze illustrated which was unearthed at the Saskatoon Roadshow in September 2008.
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Peter Poppelmann (Poeppelmann) signature on a cast bronze statue Photograph: Jackie Freeman Photography
Other Peter Poppelman (Poeppelmann) Works:
The fine works, sculptures and bronzes of Peter Poppelmann (Poeppelmann) can be found in museums around the world including; Karlsruhe, Leipzig, Münster and Oldenburg. The city of Harsewinkel in Germany holds one of his most impressive bronze sculptures, the bathing ( the bather) and Poppelman's (Poeppelmann) Allegorie der Güte ( Allegory of Goodness,) stands impressively above the German city of Dresden which fell victim to bombing raids on 13 February 1945, as this photograph of Poppelmans (Poeppelmann) sculpture Allegory of Goodness to the right below, so poignantly reminds us.
The Works of Peter Poppelmann (Poeppelmann) Assembled by David Freeman Allegory of Goodness - Peter Poppelmann |
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Peter Poppelmann works in the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden |
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<Female Figure Bathing 1897, Bronze, 45 x 20 x 32,3 cm Inv. 1887 Purchased from the artist Peter Poppelmann (Poeppelmann) 1901
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Peter Poppelmann (Poeppelmann):> Female Portrait (Portrait of the artist’s wife) Circa: Before 1904, Parian Marble, 50 x 33 x 24,5 cm Purchased with funds from the State of Saxony for Small-Scale Sculpture in 1904 |
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Peter Poeppelmann Bronze |
<Girl with a Child, Figurine Peter Poeppelmann Before 1904, Bronze, 30,5 x 11 x 9 cm Purchased with funds from the State of Saxony for Small-Scale Sculpture in 1904 (other specimen called “Geschwistergruppe“: Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe)
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^ Bust of Bruno Schröder Bronze Peter Poppelmann:(Poeppelmann) Before 1934, Bronze, 51 x 23,7 x 22,8 cm Purchased from the artist, 1934
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^ Poppelmann (Poeppelmann) Bust of Miss Ritter 1897, Untersberg marble, 59 x 49 x 30,5 cm Purchased with funds from the State of Saxony for Small-Scale Sculpture in 1905
^ Poeppelmann Female Half-nude P. Poppelmann: Before 1942, marble, 83 x 40 x 30,5 cm Removed from the office building Reichsstatthalter ("imperial lieutenant") Dresden in 1942 |
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Other works of Peter Poppelmann (Poeppelmann) are held at the Stadtmuseum Dresden, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Stadt Harsewinkel, Augusteum Oldenburg, Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig
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<Attributed to Peter Poeppelmann (Poppelmann) Female Nude, Torso Before 1947, Marble, 94 x 32,5 x 15,0 cm Origin unknown. Other possibilities for alternative attribution are Kurt Göllner and Arthur Lange, who were also working in Dresden at this time.
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*We are very grateful to the municipal administration of Harsewinkel Germany and in particular Eckhard Moeller for providing us with information of the artist and an image of the sculpture; Die Badende’ (right) by Peter Poeppelmann which is housed in the “Rathaus Harsewinkel” . Peter Poeppelmann bronze photograph courtesy of Jan Krieft and Sarah Boeller. |
Die Badende’ by Peter Poeppelmann. Bronze ©Jan Krieft and Sarah Boeller
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Peter Poppelmann (Poeppelmann) REIGEN, ZWEI JUGENDSTILMADCHEN IN LANGEN WEICHFLIESSENDEN GEWANDERN Bronze Reproduction
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This images is from the National gallery in Berlin who hold a different variation of the same Peter Pöppelmann Bronze Dancers
Peter Poeppelmann (Poeppelmann) Mother and Child |
Peter Poppelmann (Poeppelmann) Boy riding on a Dolphin. Bronze
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Peter Poppelmann (Poeppelmann) Cherub Bronze
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Peter Poppelmann (Poeppelmann) Urchin Bronze
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Peter Poppelmann (Poeppelmann) Aphrodite Statue
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Peter Poppelmann (Poeppelmann) Aphrodite Detail |
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Peter Poppelmann (Poeppelmann) Monogrammed Geschwisterpaar. The Siblings
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| ^Peter Pöppelmann: Gedenkplakette an Elisa von der Recke und Christoph August Tiedge (1904) am Hotel Bellevue in Dresden Commemorative Placque to Elisa von der Recke (German writer and poet and Christoph August Tiedge also a German poet. Diplayed at the Hotel Bellevue in Dresden. |
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Bibliography: Peter Poppelmann (Peter Poeppelmann) Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker, Hans Vollmer (Ed.): Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Band 27, Leipzig 1933, page 183; Eckhard Möller: Stadtarchiv Harsewinkel zeigt Skulpturen, in: Archivpflege in Westfalen und Lippe, issue 47, April 1998, page 42 |
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