Willi Hoselmann (27 January 1890 – 1978) was a German sculptor.
Life Born in Duisburg, Hoselman studied sculpture at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. There he was of Hubert Netzer. From 1933 he was a member of the Malkasten, the and the 1949 Group. During the National Socialist era he created art in Nazi Germany. One of Hoselmann's private students was Gerda Kratz.
His son Wilhelm Hoselmann headed the building department of the city of Geldern as building director for decades.Dä Geldersche Wend - Portrait Wilhelm Hoselmann (jun.), on youtube.com, 21 May 2019
Works Putti and stone vases for the Düsseldorf exhibition GeSoLei, 1926-1928: stone vase Düsseldorf's cartwheeler (on the bank protection wall at Rheinpark Golzheim),, retrieved 5 September 2021 Stone vases Martinszug and Die Lebensalter (on the plinth at the NRW Forum in Düsseldorfer Ehrenhof)Jürgen Wiener: Die Gesolei und die Düsseldorfer Architektur der 20er Jahre. Bachem Verlag, Cologne 2001, , Vier Schmuckvasen, webpage in the portal emuseum.duesseldorf.de, retrieved 5 September 2021 Tomorrow we march,MEMORIAL WRITING for the inauguration of the HONORARY of the fallen of the Fusilier Regiment General Ludendorff (Niederrheinisches) No. 39, as well as its war formations Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 39 and Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 39 connected with REGIMENTSAPPELL of all former 39er Fusilier-Reserve- u. Landwehr-Regt. 39. in Düsseldorf on 1-2 Sept. 1928, Editor: P. Herbrand, Düsseldorf, Printed by W. Girardet, Düsseldorf=Essen Joint design with the architect Peter Dierichsweiler for the Kriegerdenkmal des Füsilier-Regiments General Ludendorff (Niederrheinisches) No. 39, 1927Allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon. Vol. 27, K. G. Saur Verlag, Munich 2000, , Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung. Berlin, 11 January 1928 edition (48th volume), (Online) (realised by sculptor Jupp Rübsam, unveiled 1928) Gießerjunge, bronze figure at the corner of Zollstraße/Marktplatz in Düsseldorf, commissioned by the Düsseldorfer Jonges, erected in 1932Peter Gödeke: Kultur- und Freizeitführer Nordrhein-Westfalen. Econ Verlag, Düsseldorf 1985, with Hans Reissinger: Denkmal der Bewegung, NS monument in the form of a lying swastika on Luitpoldplatz, Bayreuth, 1934, torn down in 1935 after encroachment by Wildpinkler.Das niedergepinkelte NS-Denkmal. In Sunday in Franconia, 25 April 2010 edition, (Online) Monument to the German Mother (Mother guiding her children into life), NS monument in the hall of honour of the House of German Education, Bayreuth, 1936Pressechronik 12.5.1933: Denkmal der Deutschen Mutter in der Weihehalle des Hauses der Deutschen Erziehung in Bayreuth , website in portal pressechronik1933.dpmu.de, retrieved 5 September 2021 Eagle with swastika flag, relief above the portal of the House of German Education, Bayreuth, 1936Hans Reissinger: House of German Education, website at portal takeahnase.tumblr.com, retrieved 5 September 2021 Memorial to Vice Admiral Maximilian Reichsgraf von Spee, above a portal at the Palais Spee (eastern wing) placed in 1936Werner Alberg: Düsseldorfer Kunstszene 1933-1945. Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf, Stadtmuseum, Düsseldorf 1987, Fischerjungen-Brunnen from bluestone, 1938, commissioned by the Düsseldorfer Jonges for the 650th anniversary of the city of Düsseldorf, Stiftsplatz 2, Düsseldorf. School relief, shell limestone, above the main entrance of the school at Salierplatz (today Don-Bosco-School), Salierstraße 37, Düsseldorf-Oberkassel, 1939 Stone figure Falconer as part of the group of figures Die Ständischen, art project for the Reichsausstellung Schaffendes Volk 1937, initially removed again, re-installed in 1941 in Nordpark Düsseldorf at the large water basin.Werner Alberg, Heinrich Heine Commemorative plaque at Birthplace of Heinrich Heine on , Düsseldorf, commissioned by the Düsseldorfer Jonges, 1947Wolfgang Bunte: Peter Rosegger und das Judentum. Old and New Testament, Anti-Semitism, Judaism and Zionism. Judaistische Texte und Studien, vol. 6, Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 1977, , Relief Lorenz Cantador in the arcades of the Administrative Building Marktplatz 6, Düsseldorf, 1948Jörg Heimeshoff: Denkmalgeschützte Häuser in Düsseldorf. Nobel-Verlag, Essen 2001, , Zodiac relief on the central building of the Gerling administration buildings, Von-Werth-Straße 14, Cologne, circa 1950. Memorial plaque for the architect Philipp Schaefer and Lyra as a memorial of the Alte Tonhalle at the Karstadt building in Schadowstraße in Düsseldorf, circa 1952. Decorative vase, limestone, Burggrafenstraße, Düsseldorf-Oberkassel, 1953 Bust Friedrich Spee, on a stele east of the St.-Suitbertus-Basilika (at the rear of the Suitbertus-Gymnasium), Düsseldorf-Kaiserswerth, erected in 1959 by the Düsseldorf Jonges.Genius Loci, website in the portal spee-duesseldorf.de, retrieved 5 September 2021
References
Further reading Akte W. Hoselmann, Stadtarchiv Düsseldorf, XXIV 2144 Malkastenblätter, 5/1978,
External links
Hoselmann, Willi, Kurzbiografie/Werkübersicht im Portal schaffendesvolk.sellerie.de