Emil Wolff
Emil Wolff (1802–1879) was a 19th-century German sculptor and occasional artist in oil paints.
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Emil Wolff, self-portrait 1828
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Thomas Fowell Buxten by Emil Wolff 1839, Albertinum, Dresden
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Hermes
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Prince Albert in the Louvre
He is well-represented in galleries across Europe.
Life
He 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
His maternal uncle was the sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow.
Works
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- 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
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References
- 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
- https://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib3_1215007803
- http://www.artnet.com/artists/emil-wolff/
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