2 I 2012 - Grandhotel Pupp

InTERESTInG Die FaCTS Vorbereitung aBOUT und kaRLOvY feierliche Entdeckung vaRY der Reliefs folgt unter der
stützung und Patenschaft des Oberbürgermeisters der Stadt Karlsbad
Peter Kulhánek und dem Hauptmann des Karlsbader Kreises Herr
Novotný.
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MONUMENT TO BEETHOVEN
The monument to Ludwig van Beethoven, built in 1929, was made
by Hugo Uher, a native of Karlovy Vary (born on 1st April 1882).
After his studies at the school of ceramics in Bechyně and at the
College of Applied Arts in Prague where he was a student of the
famous Czech sculptor Professor Sucharda, he continued his studies
in Berlin and Rudolstadt. He was also influenced by his study
trips to Venice and Rome. He became one of the most important
sculptors of his period after he had built the mausoleum of the
Dutch general consul Pohl in North Bohemian Raspenava. Still
before, in 1906, he had created the hotelier Karl Pupp´s tomb at the
Karlovy Vary cemetery and an inte resting monument to a violin
maker in Luby near Cheb. He made a number of other monuments
and sculptures. The English king George VI got his statuettes
Finish and Winner as presents from the first Czechoslovakian president
T.G. Masaryk. Hugo Uher was awarded the Prize of the
Union of German Artists in Bohemia for his ceramic plastic
Sledger in 1909. In 1923 he married Angel Eberhard, a cousin
of the Karlovy Vary bookseller K.H. Frank who became a feared
protector at the time of the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia.
Although Hugo Uher never took part in any political activities for
all his life, he was arrested in June 1945, sent to a concentration
camp in Nová Role and finally taken to the prison in Prague-
Pankrác where he died in the December of the same year. Two allegorical
reliefs by Uher were removed from the corner pillars of
the monument to Ludwig van Beethoven and destroyed in turbulent
post-war years full of hatred against everything German.
The Rotary Club Karlovy Vary in cooperation with German clubs
wants to remedy this act and to restore the destroyed works of art.
Original alegorische Bronzreliefe der Frauenakten in Lebensgrösse
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Benefitskonzertes in Karlsbad.
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