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Bernhard Hoetger (Hörde/Westf. 1874 - Interlaken 1949) - Sell & Buy

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Important German sculptor and architect who came to Expressionism via Art Nouveau. After an apprenticeship as a stonemason and wood sculptor, he studied at the Düsseldorf Academy. In Paris, he worked in Auguste Rodin's studio and met Paula Modersohn-Becker. In 1911, he was appointed professor at the Mathildenhöhe in Darmstadt. From 1914 he worked in Worpswede. In the 1920s, he began redesigning Böttcherstrasse in Bremen, an icon of Expressionist architecture. Mus.: Darmstadt, Worpswede, Bremen a. others. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Ludwig Roselius: B. H., Eugen Thiemann: B. H., Maria Anczykowski: B.H. a. others

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