RAUCH, CHRISTIAN DANIEL (1777 1857)

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RAUCH, CHRISTIAN DANIEL (1777 1857) , German sculptor, was born at Arolsen in the principality of Waldeck on the 2nd of January 1777. His parents were poor and unable to place him under efficient masters. His first instructor taught him little else than the art of sculpturing gravestones, and Professor Ruhl of Cassel could not give him much more. A wider field of improvement opened up before him when he removed to Berlin in 1797; but he was obliged to earn a livelihood by becoming a royal lackey, and to practise his art in spare hours. Queen Louisa, surprising him one day in the act of modelling her features in wax, sent him to study at the

Academy

ACADEMY, GREEK
ACADEMY, ROYAL

of Art. Not long afterwards, in 1804,

Count

COUNT (Lat. comes, gen. comitis, Fr. comte, Ital. conte, Span. conde)

Sandrecky gave him the means to complete his education at Rome, where William von Humboldt,

Canova

CANOVA, ANTONIO (1757-1822)

and Thorwaldsen befriended him. Among other works, he executed bas-reliefs of " Hippolytus and Phaedra," " Mars and

Venus

VENUS

wounded by Diomede," and a " Child praying." In 1811 Rauch was commissioned to execute a monument for Queen Louisa of Prussia. The statue, representing the queen in a sleeping posture, was placed in a

mausoleum

MAUSOLEUM

in the grounds of Charlottenburg, and procured

great

GREAT

fame for the artist. The erection of nearly all public statues came to be entrusted to him. There were, among others, Billow and Scharnhorst at Berlin, Blucher at Breslau,

Maximilian

MAXIMILIAN
MAXIMILIAN (1832—1867)

Munich

MUNICH (Ger. Munchen)

, Francke at

Halle

, Purer at Nuremberg, Luther at Wittenberg, and the grand-duke Paul Frederick at Schwerin. At length, in 183o, he began, along with Schinkel the architect, the models for a colossal equestrian monument at Berlin to Frederick the

Great

GREAT

. This

work

WORK

was inaugurated with great pomp in May 1851, and is regarded as one of the master-pieces of modern sculpture. Princes decorated Rauch with honours and the academies of Europe enrolled him among their members. A statue of Kant for Konigsberg and a statue of Thaer for Berlin occupied his attention during some of his last years; and he had just finished a model of " Moses praying between Aaron and Hur " when he was attacked by his last illness. He died on the 3rd of December 1857.

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