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Nikolaus Karl Eduard Schmidt von der Launitz (born Nikolaus Karl Eduard Launitz; 23 November 1797 – 12 December 1869) was a German
Nikolaus Karl Eduard Schmidt von der Launitz (born Nikolaus Karl Eduard Launitz; 23 November 1797 – 12 December 1869) was a German sculptor
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Biography
Launitz was born aBaltic German
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in Grobin, Courland
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, which was then part of the Russian Empire
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. He was raised in Vechelde
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in the Duchy of Brunswick
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in 1809 after the death of his parents. In 1815 he began studying jurisprudence at the University of Göttingen
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. He became more interested in art, however, and visited an artists' colony in Rome
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. There he became a student of Bertel Thorvaldsen
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, whom he assisted in restoring the Æginetan marbles.
Schmidt von der Launitz spent most of his adult life in Frankfurt
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. He taught at the Städel
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in Frankfurt and the art academy
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in Düsseldorf
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. Schmidt von der Launitz is buried in the Hauptfriedhof Frankfurt. United States sculptor Robert Eberhard Launitz was his nephew.
Work
Schmidt von der Launitz's first independent work was an 1820 relief of his brother, who had died during theBattle of Leipzig
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. In Frankfurt, he executed a Gutenberg
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monument and other notable works. For the Villa Torlonia in Rome, he made several statues, and other works of his are at the Hague
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See also
* Johann Christian Gustav LucaeNotes
References
* (birthyear 1796; in all other sources — 1797)External links
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Schmidt Von Der Launitz, Eduard 1797 births 1869 deaths People from Grobiņa People from Courland Governorate People of Baltic German descent German sculptors German male sculptors Academic staff of Kunstakademie Düsseldorf Burials at Frankfurt Main Cemetery