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RIETSCHEL, ERNST

This article appears in Volume V23, Page 325 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: RHY-RON
RIETSCHEL, ERNST ,
FRIEDRICH
  AUGUST (1804-1861), German sculptor, was born at Pulsnitz in Saxony. At an early age he became an art student at Dresden, and subsequently a pupil of Rauch in Berlin. He there gained an art studentship, and studied in Rome in 1827-28. After returning to Saxony he soon brought himself into notice by a colossal statue of Frederick
Augustus
 , king of Saxony; was elected a member of the
academy
  of Dresden, and thenceforth became one of the
chief
  sculptors of his country. In 1832 he was elected to the Dresden professorship of sculpture, and had many foreign orders of merit conferred on him by the governments of different countries. He died at Dresden in 1861.325
Rietschel's style was very varied; he produced works imbued with much religious feeling, and to some extent he occupied the same place as a sculptor that Overbeck did in painting. Other important works by him were purely classical in style. He was specially famed for his portrait figures of eminent men, treated with much idealism and dramatic vigour; among the latter class his
chief
  works were colossal statues of Goethe and Schiller for tin' town of
Weimar
 , of Weber for Dresden and of Lessing for Brunswick. He also designed the memorial statue of Luther for Worms, but died before he could carry it out. The principal among Rietschel's religious pieces of sculpture are the well-known Christ-
Angel
 , and a life-sized Pieta, executed for the king of Prussia. He also worked a
great
  deal in rilievo, and produced many graceful pieces, especially a fine
series
  of bas-reliefs representing Night and Morning,
Noon
  and Twilight, designed with much poetical feeling and imagination.
For a good biography of Rietschel and account of his works see Appermann, Ernst Rietschel (
Leipzig
 , 1863). U. H. M.)


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