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DANNECKER, JOHANN HEINRICH VON (1758-1841) , See also:German sculptor, was See also:born at See also:Stuttgart, where his See also:father was employed in the stables of the See also:duke of See also:Wurttemberg, on the 15th of See also:October 1758. The boy was entered in the military school at the See also:age of thirteen, but after two years he was allowed to take his own See also:taste for See also:art. We find him at once associating with the See also:young sculptors Scheffauer and Le Jeune, the painters Guibal and Harper, and also with See also:Schiller, and the musician Zumsteeg. His busts of some of these are See also:good; that of Schiller is well known. In his eighteenth See also:year he carried off the See also:prize at the Concours with his See also:model of See also:Milo of See also:Crotona. On this the duke made him sculptor to the See also:palace (178o), and for some See also:time he was employed on See also:child-angels and See also:caryatides for the decoration of the reception rooms. In 1783 he See also:left for See also:Paris with Scheffauer, and placed himself under See also:Pajou. His See also:Mars, a sitting figure sent See also:home to Stuttgart, marks this See also:period; and we next find him, still travel-See also:ling with his friend, at See also:Rome in 1785, where he settled down to See also:work hard for five years. See also:Goethe and See also:Herder were then in Rome and became his See also:friends, as well as See also:Canova, who was the See also:hero of the See also:day, and who had undoubtedly a See also:great authoritative See also:influence on his See also:style. His See also:marble statues of See also:Ceres and Bacchus were done at this time. These are now in the Residenz-schloss, at Stuttgart. On his return to Stuttgart, which he never afterwards quitted except for See also:short trips to Paris, See also:Vienna and See also:Zurich, the See also:double influence of his admiration for Canova and his study of the See also:antique is apparent in his See also:works.

The first was a girl lamenting her dead See also:

bird, which See also:pretty See also:light See also:motive was much admired. Afterwards, See also:Sappho, in marble for the Lustschloss, and two offering-bearers for the Jagdschloss; See also:Hector, now in the museum, not in marble; the complaint of Ceres, from Schiller's poem; a statue of See also:Christ, worthy of mention for its See also:nobility, which has been skilfully engraved by See also:Amsler; See also:Psyche; kneeling See also:water-nymph; Love, a favourite he had to repeat. These stock subjects with sculptors had freshness of treatment; and the See also:Ariadne, done a little later, especially had a See also:charm of novelty which has made it a See also:European favourite in a reduced See also:size. It was repeated for the banker Von Bethmann in See also:Frankfort, and it now appears the See also:ornament of the Bethmann Museum. Many of the illustrious men of the time were modelled by him. The See also:original marble of Schiller is now at See also:Weimar; after the poet's See also:death it was again modelled in See also:colossal size. See also:Lavater, Metternich, Countess Stephanie of See also:Baden, See also:General Benkendorf and others are much prized. Dannecker was director of the See also:Gallery of Stuttgart, and received many See also:academic and other distinctions. His death in 1841 was preceded by a period of See also:mental failure.

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