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Johann Gottfried Schadow
1764-1850 Berlin, He was a German sculptor. He was born in Berlin, where his father was a poor tailor. Friederike von Preuben.His first teacher was an inferior sculptor, Tassaert, patronized by Frederick the Great; the master offered his daughter in marriage, but the pupil preferred to elope with a girl to Vienna, and the father-in-law not only condoned the offence but furnished money wherewith to visit Italy. Three years' study in Rome formed his style, and in 1788 he returned to Berlin to succeed Tassaert as sculptor to the court and secretary to the Academy. Over half a century he produced upwards of two hundred works, varied in style as in subjects.
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Painting ID:: 38550
Monument to Count Alexander von der Mark
mk138
1788-90
Marble
623x370cm
Long-term loan of the Evangelical Parish of Friedrichswerder zu Berlin
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Painting ID:: 38551
Princesses Luise and Friederike of Prussia
mk138
1795-97
Marble
172x94x59cm
Transferred from the Berliner Stadtschloss in 1949
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Painting ID:: 38552
Self-Portrait
mk138
c.1790/94
Terracotta 41x22x25cm
Purchased in 1917 from Adelheid Kaibel nee Schadow,Gottingen
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Painting ID:: 38553
Young Woman Reclining
mk138
1826
Marble
34x95x38cm
Purchased 1865 from Eugenie Schadow,Nee d'Alton-Rauch
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Johann Gottfried Schadow
1764-1850 Berlin, He was a German sculptor. He was born in Berlin, where his father was a poor tailor. Friederike von Preuben.His first teacher was an inferior sculptor, Tassaert, patronized by Frederick the Great; the master offered his daughter in marriage, but the pupil preferred to elope with a girl to Vienna, and the father-in-law not only condoned the offence but furnished money wherewith to visit Italy. Three years' study in Rome formed his style, and in 1788 he returned to Berlin to succeed Tassaert as sculptor to the court and secretary to the Academy. Over half a century he produced upwards of two hundred works, varied in style as in subjects.
. Related Artists to Johann Gottfried Schadow: | Kazimierz Wojniakowski | Bingham, George Caleb | TASSEL, Jean | Tait Arthur Fitzwilliam | PALAGI, Pelagio |
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