Johannes Schilling (23 June 1828 in

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– 21 March 1910 in

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near

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) was a German sculptor.

Life and work

Johannes Schilling was the youngest of five children. A year after his birth, his family moved to

, where he grew up. At the age of six, he was sent to a private school and, at fourteen, attended the

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where he was taught drawing by Karl Gottlieb Peschel. After graduating in 1845, he became one of the master pupils in the studio of sculptor

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. In 1851 and 1852, he went to Berlin to continue his studies with

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and

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. In 1852, he returned to Dresden, where he worked in the studios of

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. From 1854 to 1856, he took a study trip to Rome. Finally, in 1857, he established his own studio. That same year, he married Louise Arnold, daughter of the late publisher Ernst Sigismund Arnold (1792-1840). Among their children were

Rudolf Schilling Georg Rudolf Schilling (June 1, 1859 - December 19, 1933) was a German architect. He was associated with the Dresden architecture firm Schilling & Graebner. Early life Born as a son of the sculptor Johannes Schilling. He studied architecture at t ...

, an architect and co-owner of the construction firm

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, and Katharina Susanna Schilling, who became the wife of chemist Arthur Hantzsch. The writer and historian Heinar Schilling was a child of his second marriage to Minna Neubert. In 1868, he became a Professor at the Academy, a position he held until his death. By 1888, he was sufficiently famous to establish a museum (designed by his son, Rudolf) to display his models and designs. It was destroyed in 1945, as was most of Dresden by the fire bombing of Dresden by the

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. After his death, as a part of his legacy, the city of Mittweida was directed to build a private museum, but these plans had not been realized by 1914 and were put on hold at the outbreak of World War I. His legacy was not fulfilled until 2005, when the Schilling House was established. Grab Friedrich Siemens

Among Schilling's sculptures there are Emperor William's monument in

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, the sculpture series ', and the Maximilian monument in

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. He also contributed to the Luther Monument of

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Lageplan des Denkmals auf einer Handzeichnung von Schilling im Architekturmuseum der TU Berlin

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Schilling, Johannes 1828 births 1910 deaths People from Mittweida Artists from the Kingdom of Saxony German male sculptors 20th-century German sculptors 19th-century German sculptors Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class)

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