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BEGAS, REINHOLD (1831- )

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BEGAS, See also:REINHOLD (1831- ) , See also:German sculptor, younger son of Karl Begas, the painter, was See also:born at See also:Berlin on the 15th of See also:July 1831. He received his See also:early See also:education (1846-1851) in the ateliers of C. D. See also:Rauch and L. Wichmann. During a See also:period of study in See also:Italy, from 1856 to 1858, he was influenced by See also:Bocklin and See also:Lenbach in the direction of a naturalistic See also:style in See also:sculpture. This tendency was marked in the See also:group " Borussia," executed for the See also:facade of the See also:exchange in Berlin, which first brought him into See also:general See also:notice. In 1861 he was appointed See also:professor at the See also:art school at See also:Weimar, but retained the See also:appointment only a few months. That he was chosen, after competition, to execute the statue of See also:Schiller for the Gendarmen Markt in Berlin, was a high See also:tribute to the fame he had already acquired; and the result, one of the finest statues in the German See also:metropolis, entirely justified his selection. Since the See also:year 187o, Begas has entirely dominated the plastic art in See also:Prussia, but especially in Berlin. Among his See also:chief See also:works (luring this period are the See also:colossal statue of Borussia for the See also:Hall of See also:Glory; the See also:Neptune See also:fountain in See also:bronze on the Schlossplatz; the statue of See also:Alexander von See also:Humboldt, all in Berlin; the See also:sarcophagus of the See also:emperor See also:Frederick III. in the See also:mausoleum of the Friedenskirche at See also:Potsdam; and, lastly, the See also:national See also:monument to the emperor See also:William (see BERLIN), the statue of See also:Bismarck before the Reichstag See also:building, and several of the statues in the Siegesallee. He was also entrusted with the See also:execution of the sarcophagus of the empress Frederick.

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Meyer, " Reinhold Begas " in Kiinstler-Monographien, ed. H. Knackfuss, Heft xx. (See also:Bielefeld, 1897; new ed., 1901).

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