page_title: Bruno Schmitz
section_title: Selected works
hierarchical_section_title: Bruno Schmitz / Selected works
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Plakat als Zweifarb-Druck in den Maßen circa 88,8 x 64,7 cm, gedruckt von der Graphischen Kunst (-anstalt Hyll &amp; Klein), Barmen nach einem Entwurf von Bruno Schmitz für den Klavierhersteller Rud. Ibach Sohn. Dargestellt ist ein offener Konzertflügel auf einer Veranda, im Hintergrund eine Eiche mit der Schutzmarke, einer Lyra in einem fünfeckigen, auf der Spitze stehenden Stern innerhalb eines Kreises mit den Buchstaben R, J und S. Am Fuß des Blattes der Zusatz „A. W. Zimmermann, Darmstadt' …“
context_page_description: Bruno Schmitz, was a German architect best known for his monuments in the early 20th century. He worked closely with sculptors such as Emil Hundrieser, Nikolaus Geiger and Franz Metzner for integrated architectural and sculptural effect.
  Schmitz was born in Düsseldorf. His single most famous work is the massive 1913 Völkerschlachtdenkmal located in Leipzig, Saxony, designed with local architect Clemens Thieme. The Monument was inaugurated in 1913 by Kaiser Wilhelm II. Bohemian sculptor Franz Metzner designed the architectural figures, including the powerful and strangely scaled Masks of Fate in the monument's crypt.
  Along with the Leipzig monument, Schmitz designed the Kyffhäuser Monument and the Kaiser Wilhelm Monument at Porta Westfalica, bringing him the distinction of designing the three largest war monuments in Germany. All of them are rough, primitive masonry structures in a style that blends Romanesque precedents with modernist touches, and all of them are associated with German nationalism in the period before World War I.
  Schmitz's daughter Angelica Schmitz was the wife of the Ukrainian-American sculptor Alexander Archipenko.
context_section_description: Geschäftshaus (commercial building) (1883), Düsseldorf.
  Kyffhäuser Monument (1889–96), Porta Westfalica, with Emil Hundrieser and Nikolaus Geiger, sculptors.
  Kaiser Wilhelm Monument (1890–96), Teutoburg Forest, Porta Westfalica, with Caspar von Zumbusch, sculptor.
  Deutsches Eck Monument (1894–97), Koblenz, with Emil Hundrieser, sculptor.
  Kaiserin Augusta Monument (1896), Koblenz, with Karl Friedrich Moest, sculptor.
  Völkerschlachtdenkmal (Monument to the Battle of the Nations) (1898–1913), Leipzig, with Clemens Thieme, architect, and Franz Metzner, sculptor.
  Bismarckturm (Bismark Tower) (1899–1900), Unna.
  Villa Stockwerk (1899–1902), Cologne.
  Mannheimer Rosengarten (1899–1903), Friedrichsplatz, Mannheim.
  Kaiser Wilhelm Monument (1901), Halle.
  Automat Commercial Building (1904–05), Berlin.
  Weinhaus Rheingold (Rheingold Wine House) (1905–06), Berlin (destroyed).
  Carl Hoffman Tomb, Old St. Matthew's Church, Berlin, with Nikolaus Geiger, sculptor.
  A number of the Bismarck towers.
caption: Poster "Ibach-Pianos", 1898 by Bruno Schmitz
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