Adolf von Hildebrand

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Adolf von Hildebrand (October 6, 1847 Marburg - January 18, 1921 Munich) was a sculptor, 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.

[edit] 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

[edit] External links

• Problem of Form 1901/1918
• Double Portrait of the Artist's Daughters in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum