Johann Gottfried Schadow:
Sculpture "Luise and Friederike", reduction in artificial marble
Johann Gottfried Schadow:
Sculpture "Luise and Friederike", reduction in artificial marble

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museum replica | artificial marble | reduction | size 19.5 x 30 x 14 cm (w/h/d)

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Sculpture "Luise and Friederike", reduction in artificial marble
Johann Gottfried Schadow: Sculpture "Luise and Friederike...

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Sculpture "Luise and Friederike", reduction in artificial marble

In 1793, Crown Prince Frederick William III and his brother Louis married the princesses Luise and Friederike of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Along with the quadriga on the Brandenburg Gate, this graceful sculptural group is one of Johann Gottfried Schadow's major works.
Original: National Gallery Berlin Museum Island.

Hand-cast, polymer-bound museum replica made of artificial marble. Reduction, size 19.5 x 30 x 14 cm (w/h/d).

Portrait of the artist Johann Gottfried Schadow

About Johann Gottfried Schadow

1764-1850

Johann Gottfried Schadow was the most important German sculptor of the Napoleonic era. He trained at the royal school of sculpture and later became head of the court sculpture workshop and "director of all sculptures" in 1788. Schadow's classical ideal was increasingly joined by realistic, national and individual features. His classically ideal and realistic style set the trend for the 19th century.

His art combines a natural sensuality and grace leading out of the Rococo with great realism. His double statue of the crown princesses Luise and Friederike of Prussia in marble is the first life-size double statue of classicism and set standards for 19th-century monument sculpture. He created the famous quadriga on the Brandenburg Gate in copper rubbing, as the bronze casting technique could not yet be used for such large objects. During the Restoration period, Schadow's realistic classicism found fewer patrons and was supplanted around 1820 by the official and emphatically representative art of his pupil Caspar Daniel Rauch.

Until his death, Schadow was director of the Berlin Academy and exerted great influence, also through his writings.

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