August Kiss

August Kiss studied at Prussian Academy of Arts. Training under Friedrich Ludwig Beyerhaus is recorded. Christian Daniel Rauch is recorded as having studied under August Kiss. The recorded working language is German. Places of work recorded in the authority are Berlin. Works named in the authority record are Jelen and Lion Head. Work by August Kiss is recorded in the collections of Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, Berlinische Galerie and Wallraf–Richartz Museum.

• Name — August Kiss • Born — 11 October 1802 • Birthplace — Paprotzan, Province of Silesia • Died — 24 March 1865 • Place of death — Berlin, Province of Brandenburg • Known for — Sculpture

Kiss was born in Paprotzan (now Paprocany, part of Tychy in Poland) in Prussian Silesia. He studied at the Prussian Academy of Arts under Christian Daniel Rauch, Christian Friedrich Tieck, and Karl Friedrich Schinkel. As a student, his most famous work was the relief on the gable field of the St. Nicholas Church in Potsdam. Kiss became well known in Germany by 1839 when he made a sculpture depicting an Amazon fighting a panther in marble for Ludwig I of Bavaria. It was later cast into bronze as Amazone zu Pferde, and placed outside the Altes Museum. Kiss was responsible for two monuments in Wrocław: On the west part of the Ring, stood a bronze equestrian statue of Frederick the Great (1847), and another equestrian statue of Prussian King Frederick Wilhelm III of Prussia (1862). His only other work in marble was the monument dedicated to Countess Laura Henckel von Donnersmarck, itself based on a previous work by mentor Christian Rauch dedicated to Queen Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. In 1863, he was admitted as an associate member of the Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium. Kiss died unexpectedly on 24 March 1865, aged 62, in Berlin.