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Hildebrand, Adolf von
(b Marburg, 6 Oct 1847; d Munich, 18 Jan 1921). German sculptor, theorist and writer. As a boy he developed an interest in drawing and, after spending two years at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Nuremberg, he went to Munich in 1866 to study under the sculptor Kaspar Clemens Zumbusch. In 1867 he accompanied Zumbusch on a trip to Verona, Florence and Rome. In Rome he made the acquaintance of the philosopher and art theorist Konrad Fiedler and the painter Hans Reinhard von Marées, both of whose ‘ideal-formalist’ theories of art were to be of great importance to him. At the end of 1869 the three friends met again in Berlin and in 1872 Hildebrand moved to Italy, which became his second home. In 1873 he assisted Marées in the decoration of the Stazione Zoologica in Naples, devising the designs for the frieze and pilasters, collaborating with him on the decorative paintings and producing the portrait busts of the scientists Charles Darwin and Carl Ernst von Baer (both in situ). In 1873, at the Weltausstellung in Vienna, he exhibited successfully for the first time, showing a portrait bust of Theodor Heyse (marble; Berlin, Alte N.G.). As a result, in 1874 he was able to buy the former monastery of S Francesco di Paola near Florence and to install a studio for Marées and himself, though in 1875 Marées returned to Rome.
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