Emil Wolff (1802–1879) was a 19th-century German sculptor and occasional artist in oil paints.
He is well-represented in galleries across Europe.
Life
editHe was born in Berlin on 2 March 1802. From 1815 he studied at the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin. He won a scholarship to study in Rome in 1822 under Bertel Thorwaldsen.[1]
In 1854 King Friedrich Wilhelm IV purchased "Najade" for erection at Sanssouci. This was removed in 1985 due to erosion but replaced with a replica in 2017.[2]
In 1865 he exhibited at the Dublin International Exhibition.[3]
He died in Rome on 29 September 1879.
Family
editHis maternal uncle was the sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow.
Works
editsee[4] etc
- Midas as a Judge (1825)
- Charitas (1830)
- The Night (1830)
- Telephos suckled by the Doe
- Hebe and Ganymede (1834)
- Diana after the Hunt (1838)
- The Amazons
- Prometheus (1844)
- Jephtha and his Daughter (1858)
- Psyche after Amor's Escape
- Judith (1868)
- Bertel Thorwaldsen
- The Tambourine Beater
- Johann Winckelmann
- Barthold Georg Niebuhr
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
- Hermes
- Youthful Satyr
- Young Bacchus
References
edit- ^ Alfred Gotthold Meyer: Wolff, Emil . In: General German Biography (ADB). Vol. 44, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, pp. 28-31.
- ^ Potsdamer Latest news from 12.8.17 author: Anne-Kathrin Fischer
- ^ "Emil Wolff - Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951".
- ^ "Emil Wolff | Artnet".
