Wilhelm von Rümann

Wilhelm von Rümann (11 November 1850 in Hanover – 6 February 1906 in Ajaccio) was a prominent German sculptor, based in Munich.

Life Rümann was born in Hanover. He studied from 1872 to 1874 at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich (Akademie der Bildenden Künste München), and from 1880 with Michael Wagmüller. From 1887 he taught at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. In 1891, he was raised to the nobility.

Nürnberg, Art Nouveau Silver Medal 1905 by Ruemann, reverse. This large medal was given by the city of Nürnberg to the Royalties attending the ceremony of the unveiling of the monument in honour of Kaiser Wilhelm I on 14 December 1905 in Nuremberg.

As well as numerous funerary monuments in the Alter Südfriedhof (Old South Burial Ground) in Munich, he created sculptures which are still to be seen in the city: monuments for Georg Simon Ohm (1895, in the courtyard of the Technical University of Munich), Max von Pettenkofer (1909) and Carl von Effner (1886) at the Maximiliansplatz (now the Lenbachplatz), the Puttenbrunnen (Putti Fountain) at the Peace Monument in the Prinzregentenstraße (originally intended for Schloss Herrenchiemsee) and the marble lions in front of the Feldherrnhalle (1906).

Among his pupils were Bernhard Bleeker, Emil Julius Epple, Jakob Hofmann, Moissey Kogan, Martin Scheible and Alois Mayer.

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

Works (public monuments)

Chemnitz: Kaiser Wilhelm I: equestrian statue in the marketplace; sent for scrap after 1945 Bismarck Statue (1899), to the left; sent for scrap after 1945 Moltke Statue, to the right; sent for scrap after 1945 Heilbronn: 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 marketplace Munich: Monument of Georg Simon Ohm, 1895 Funerary monument of Princess Ludovika of Bavaria 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 Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities) Bust of Wilhelm Bauer in the Deutsches Museum and many others Nuremberg: Kaiser Wilhelm I equestrian statue (1905) (designed and begun by Syrius Eberle, 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 Stuttgart: Kaiser Wilhelm I equestrian statue (1898) Bad Urach: bust of Bismarck in the Schloßstraße Woerth, Alsace, France: Bavarian National War Memorial 1870, made 1889

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