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Luise, Queen of Prussia
Johann Gottfried Schadow1798 - 1798
Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Details
- Title: Luise, Queen of Prussia
- Creator: Johann Gottfried Schadow
- Date Created: 1798 - 1798
- Physical Dimensions: h56.5 cm
- Type: Bust
- Technique and material: Gypsum
- ISIL-No.: DE-MUS-815114
- External link: Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
- Copyrights: Photo: © b p k - Photo Agency / Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
- Collection: Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
- Artist biography: Johann Gottfried Schadow is known as the most important German Neoclassicist sculptor. Due to his humble beginnings, he started his apprenticeship with Tassaert, a rather mediocre sculptor. For three years he studied in Rome where he markedly found his style. In 1788 he returned to Berlin and succeeded his master as sculptor to the court. Schadow created a variety of church monuments and memorial works but also worked as a porcelain painter at the royal porcelain factory. In 1795 he moulded the quadriga of the Brandenburg Gate and the allegorical frieze on the facade of the royal mint in Berlin. Schadow was appointed as director of the Berlin Academy and had great influence on Prussian arts, for instance, through his writings on the proportions of the human figure or on national physiognomy. Schadow’s art was distinctly Neoclassicist and naturalistic in character but his work also displayed a Romantic element. Busts of Frederick the Great in Stettin (Szczecin), Blücher in Rostock and Luther in Wittenberg are some of his most prominent works.
- Artist Place of Death: Berlin, Germany
- Artist Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany
- Artist Dates: 1764-05-20/1850-01-27
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