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Max Unger (26 January 1854, in
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Unger, Max 1854 births 1918 deaths Sculptors from Berlin Prussian Academy of Arts alumni 20th-century German sculptors 20th-century German male artists 19th-century German sculptors German male sculptors
Max Unger (26 January 1854, in Berlin
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– 31 May 1918, in Bad Kissingen
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) was a German sculptor.
Life
He studied sculpture at thePrussian Academy of Art
The Prussian Academy of Arts () was a state arts academy first established in 1694 by prince-elector Frederick III of Brandenburg in Berlin, in personal union Duke Frederick I of Prussia, and later king in Prussia.
After the Accademia dei Linc ...
under Fritz Schaper
Fritz (Friedrich) Schaper (31 July 1841, Alsleben – 29 November 1919, Berlin) was a German sculptor.
Life
He was orphaned at an early age, and was sent to Halle (Saale), Halle to receive instruction at the Francke Foundations. After being ap ...
and worked in the studios of Albert Wolff from 1874 to 1875. After two more years of study in Italy, he established his own studios in Berlin-Kreuzberg
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.
Selected major works
* 1888: Statue ofGeneralfeldmarschall
''Generalfeldmarschall'' (; from Old High German ''marahscalc'', "marshal, stable master, groom"; ; often abbreviated to ''Feldmarschall'') was a rank in the armies of several German states and the Holy Roman Empire, (''Reichsgeneralfeldmarsch ...
Prince Friedrich Karl Nikolaus von Preußen, in Frankfurt (Oder)
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.
* 1898: Siegesallee
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A ...
(Victory Avenue) project, Group 2: with Otto I, Margrave of Brandenburg
Otto I (c. 1128 – July 8, 1184) was the second Margrave of Brandenburg, from 1170 until his death.
Life
Otto I was born into the House of Ascania as the eldest son of Albert I ("Albert the Bear"), who founded the Margraviate of Brandenburg in ...
as the central figure; flanked by Sibold (died c.1190), first Abbott of Lehnin Abbey
Lehnin Abbey () is a former Cistercian monastery in Lehnin in Brandenburg, Germany. Founded in 1180 and secularization, secularized during the Protestant Reformation in 1542, it has accommodated the ''Luise-Henrietten-Stift'', a Protestant deacone ...
, and Pribislav-Henry
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, last ruler of the Hevelli
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tribe. The statues were vandalized shortly after being dedicated and were severely damaged in World War II. They are now on display at the Spandau Citadel
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.
* 1900: Kaiser Wilhelm I
Wilhelm I (Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig; 22 March 1797 – 9 March 1888) was King of Prussia from 1861 and German Emperor from 1871 until his death in 1888. A member of the House of Hohenzollern, he was the first head of state of a united Germany. ...
, Equestrian statue on the Wilhelmsplatz in Frankfurt (Oder).
* 1900 Kaiser Wilhelm I statue in Ulm
Ulm () is the sixth-largest city of the southwestern German state of Baden-Württemberg, and with around 129,000 inhabitants, it is Germany's 60th-largest city.
Ulm is located on the eastern edges of the Swabian Jura mountain range, on the up ...
; originally in the Marktplatz, since 1939 in the Olgaplatz.
* 1903: Leipzig
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, Villersbrunnen; Named after Helene de Villers, the late wife of a certain Herr Dürr (of the publishing firm Dürr and Geibels) who commissioned the work. It was melted down in 1942 and reconstructed in 2003.
* 1913, statue of Fridtjof the Brave in Vangsnes
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(Vik) on the Sognefjord
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, Norway. It was commissioned by Kaiser Wilhelm II
Wilhelm II (Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert; 27 January 18594 June 1941) was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia from 1888 until Abdication of Wilhelm II, his abdication in 1918, which marked the end of the German Empire as well as th ...
, transported to Norway in fifteen pieces and assembled by 100 Imperial German Navy
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sailors. There was talk of dismantling the statue, during both world wars, but it was allowed to remain. Today, it is by far his best known work and has become a local landmark./ref>
References
Further reading
* Richard George (Hrsg.): ''Hie gut Brandenburg alleweg! Geschichts- und Kulturbilder aus der Vergangenheit der Mark und aus Alt-Berlin bis zum Tode des Großen Kurfürsten'', Verlag von W. Pauli's Nachf., Berlin 1900. * Uta Lehnert: ''Der Kaiser und die Siegesallee. Réclame Royale'', Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 1998, .External links
{{DEFAULTSORT:Unger, Max 1854 births 1918 deaths Sculptors from Berlin Prussian Academy of Arts alumni 20th-century German sculptors 20th-century German male artists 19th-century German sculptors German male sculptors