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See also:RIETSCHEL, See also:ERNST , See also:FRIEDRICH See also:AUGUST (1804-1861), See also:German sculptor, was See also:born at Pulsnitz in See also:Saxony. At an See also:early See also:age he became an See also:art student at See also:Dresden, and subsequently a See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil of See also:Rauch in See also:Berlin. He there gained an art studentship, and studied in See also:Rome in 1827-28. After returning to Saxony he soon brought himself into See also:notice by a See also:colossal statue of See also:Frederick See also:Augustus, See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of Saxony; was elected a member of the See also:academy of Dresden, and thenceforth became one of the See also:chief sculptors of his See also:country. In 1832 he was elected to the Dresden professorship of See also:sculpture, and had many See also:foreign orders of merit conferred on him by the governments of different countries. He died at Dresden in 1861.325
Rietschel's See also:style was very varied; he produced See also:works imbued with much religious feeling, and to some extent he occupied the same See also:place as a sculptor that See also:Overbeck did in See also: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 See also:idealism and dramatic vigour; among the latter class his chief works were colossal statues of See also:Goethe and See also:Schiller for See also:tin' See also:town of See also:Weimar, of See also:Weber for Dresden and of See also:Lessing for See also:Brunswick. He also designed the memorial statue of See also:Luther for See also:Worms, but died before he could carry it out. The See also:principal among Rietschel's religious pieces of sculpture are the well-known See also:Christ-See also:Angel, and a See also:life-sized Pieta, executed for the king of See also:Prussia. He also worked a See also:great See also:deal in rilievo, and produced many graceful pieces, especially a See also:fine See also:series of bas-reliefs representing See also:Night and See also:Morning, See also:Noon and See also:Twilight, designed with much poetical feeling and See also:imagination.
For a See also:good See also:biography of Rietschel and See also:account of his works see Appermann, Ernst Rietschel (See also:Leipzig, 1863). U. H.
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