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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 the Dresden 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 the First World War, is typical of the ones erected during the Third Reich and is one of the few remaining. The monument, with its 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, demand 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 architect Johann Friedrich Höger, 1922–1924, and the ''Davidwache'' police station on the Reeperbahn in Hamburg, for Schumacher. Upon his death, Kuöhl was buried in Ohlsdorf Cemetery in a tomb that he himself had designed. EF IR162 gesamt2.jpg|Lübeck, 1923 Hofgarten Coburg - 04.JPG|Coburg, 1926 Hamburg - Soldatenehrenmal.jpg|Hamburg, 1936 Denkmal Düsseldorf 39er 1.JPG|Düsseldorf, 1939 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Kuöhl」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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