- Richard Kuöhl
Richard Kuöhl (May 31, 1880 - May 19, 1961) was a German sculptor, specializing in providing architectural sculpture for the architects of the
Brick Expressionism style in northern Germany in the 1920s.After training in art pottery in his home town of
Meissen and study at theDresden Arts and Crafts School , Kuöhl moved to Berlin, then in 1912 followed his Dresden architecture professor, Fritz Schumacher, to Hamburg. Schumacher viewed architectural sculpture as particularly important, and so provided his former student with many government commissions.Kuöhl worked prolifically in the 1920s and 1930s in terra cotta, stone, and ceramics, developing a weatherproof "Baukeramik". His work is incorporated in many buildings, bridges and monuments in Hamburg and other northern German cities. Kuöhl's Hamburg war memorial, erected to commemorate those of the Second Hanseatic Infantry Regiment number 76 who died in the
Franco-Prussian War and theFirst World War is typical of the ones erected during theThird Reich and is one of the few remaining. The monument, with it's almost mocking inscription, " Germany must live, even if we have to die" continues to be swathed in controversy, with much public sentiment favoring removing it while others, particularly veterans groups demanding that it remain. Young, James E. "The texture of Memory:Holocaust Memorials and Meaning", yale University Press, New Haven, 1993 p. 337-38 ]Major work includes the
Chilehaus in Hamburg for architectJohann Friedrich Höger , 1922-1924, and the "Davidwache" police station on theReeperbahn in Hamburg, for Schumacher.References
External links
* [http://fredriks.de/Kuoehl/index.htm bio and many photographs of Kuöhl's work (in German)]
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