Johann Gottfried Schadow:
Sculpture "The Resting Girl" (1826), artificial marble
Johann Gottfried Schadow:
Sculpture "The Resting Girl" (1826), artificial marble

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museum replica | artificial marble | size 95 x 37 x 38 cm | weight 75 kg

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Sculpture "The Resting Girl" (1826), artificial marble
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Sculpture "The Resting Girl" (1826), artificial marble

The Quadriga on the Brandenburg Gate is Schadow's best-known work. But with the sculpture of the resting girl, the main representative of German classicism brought his oeuvre to a crowning conclusion: it is the glorious summary of his life's work, in which his artistic principles are perfectly united.
Original: National Gallery, Berlin. Marble.

Polymer ars mundi museum replica, cast by hand. Size 95 x 37 x 38 cm, weight 75 kg.

Hersteller: ars mundi Edition Max Büchner GmbH, Bödekerstraße 13, 30161 Hannover, Deutschland E-Mail: info@arsmundi.de

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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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