Friedrich Wilhelm Wolff
Friedrich Wilhelm Wolff (April 6, 1816 in Fehrbellin – May 30, 1887) was a German sculptor and journalist who specialized in the depiction of animals in metal giving him the nickname of "Tier-Wolff". The son of a tailor, Wolff became an apprentice mechanical engineer at the Royal Foundry at Berlin from 1830 to 1832 and then at the Königliche Gewerbeinstitut. The director of the latter institute, Peter Beuth, helped him with a scholarship to study under Louis Claude Ferdinand Soyer (1785-1854) at Paris and later under Johann Baptist Stiglmaier at Munich.
Friedrich Wilhelm Wolff
Hermann Scherenberg († 21.08.1897). · Illustrirte Zeitung, Bd. 57 (1871), S. 277. · Public domain
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- Kingdom of Prussia.
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- sculptor and molding worker.
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- German.
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Friedrich Wilhelm Wolff (April 6, 1816 in Fehrbellin – May 30, 1887) was a German sculptor and journalist who specialized in the depiction of animals in metal giving him the nickname of "Tier-Wolff". The son of a tailor, Wolff became an apprentice mechanical engineer at the Royal Foundry at Berlin from 1830 to 1832 and then at the Königliche Gewerbeinstitut. The director of the latter institute, Peter Beuth, helped him with a scholarship to study under Louis Claude Ferdinand Soyer (1785-1854) at Paris and later under Johann Baptist Stiglmaier at Munich.
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Wolff set up a foundry at Berlin in 1838 and produced designs and sculptures in iron and bronze. He specialized in casts of animals for which he drew acclaim. Wolff exhibited in the Prussian Academy of Arts from 1839 and was made member of the Academy in 1865. His castings are mostly in Germany but one exhibit "The Dying Lioness" at Berlin, has a second casting at Philadelphia. • Illustration — The Dying Lioness - in Berlin • Illustration — in Philadelphia • Illustration — „Wildschweinjagd“ in Jagdschloss Grunewald
The recorded working language is German. Places of work recorded in the authority are Berlin, Paris and Munich. Work by Friedrich Wilhelm Wolff is recorded in the collections of Berlinische Galerie.
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- 1.Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexikon Berliner Grabstätten. Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006, S. 311.
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