Augusta Stylianou Gallery

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Sculptures

Bavaria

Bust of a Woman

Clothilde Brewster

Clara Schumann

Charon

Leda

Mother with Children

Double bust

Adolf von Hildebrand (October 6, 1847 – January 18, 1921) was a sculptor,

Hildebrand was born at Marburg, the son of Marburg economics professor Bruno Hildebrand. He was the author of Das Problem der Form in der Bildenden Kunst ("The Problem of Form in Painting and Sculpture"). From 1873 he lived in Florence in San Francesco, a secularized sixteenth-century monastery. In 1877 he married Irene Schäuffelen. He spent significant time in Munich after 1889 executing a monumental fountain there, the Wittelsbacher Brunnen. He is known for five monumental urban fountains.

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 at Munich.

References

* World Wide Art Resources
* Dietrich von Hildebrand: the Soul of a Lion, by Alice von Hildebrand (Ignatius, 2000)
* Adolph von Hildebrand page
* Encyclopedia Britannica Vol. 11, pp 491–492 (1971) ISBN 0-85229-151-5

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