Erdmann Encke
Illustration — Portrait of Erdmann Encke (c. 1880) Erdmann Encke (26 January 18437 July 1896) was a German sculptor.
Erdmann Encke
sculptor Erdman Encke, scan by User:Havang(nl) · Katholieke Illustratie 1894 · Public domain
- Born
- 1843 · Berlin.
- Died
- 1896 · Neubabelsberg.
- Nationality
- Kingdom of Prussia
- Occupation
- sculptor
- Education
- Academy of Arts and Berlin · Prussian Academy of Arts
- Teachers
- Albert Wolff
- Honours
- Order of the Red Eagle 4th Class
- Languages
- German
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Illustration — Portrait of Erdmann Encke (c. 1880) Erdmann Encke (26 January 18437 July 1896) was a German sculptor.
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Erdmann Encke studied at Academy of Arts, Berlin and Prussian Academy of Arts. Training under Albert Wolff is recorded. The recorded working language is German. Employment is recorded with Academy of Arts, Berlin. Work by Erdmann Encke is recorded in the collections of Berlinische Galerie. Distinctions recorded are Order of the Red Eagle 4th Class.
Encke was born in Berlin. He studied at the academy in Berlin and with Albert Wolff. Several of the finest pieces of statuary in Berlin were designed by him, among them the following: “Friedrich Ludwig Jahn,” bronze statue (Hasenheide, Berlin); “Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg” (Façade of Town Hall, Berlin); “Queen Louise of Prussia” (Thiergarten, Berlin); and the sarcophagi of Emperor William I and Empress Augusta in the mausoleum at Charlottenburg. He also executed a number of important bronze portrait busts, in which he used polychromy with success. He was appointed a professor of the Berlin Academy in 1883. He died, aged 53, at Babelsberg. * • Queen Louise of Prussia, Großer Tiergarten (today occupied by a cement copy)
Grave of the publisher and impresario Heinrich Albert Hofmann (1818-1880) and his wife Emma née Knauth (1824-1864) on Cemetery II of the Jerusalem and New Church Congregations at Zossener Straße in Berlin-Kreuzberg. The grave monument with the sculpture was created by Erdmann Encke (1843-1896).
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