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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
Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...
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Biography
Launitz was born a Baltic German in Grobin,Courland
Courland (; lv, Kurzeme; liv, Kurāmō; German and Scandinavian languages: ''Kurland''; la, Curonia/; russian: Курляндия; Estonian: ''Kuramaa''; lt, Kuršas; pl, Kurlandia) is one of the Historical Latvian Lands in western Latvia. ...
, 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 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
Bertel Thorvaldsen (; 19 November 1770 – 24 March 1844) was a Danes, Danish and Icelanders, Icelandic Sculpture, sculptor medallist, medalist of international fame, who spent most of his life (1797–1838) in Italy. Thorvaldsen was born in ...
, 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
Robert Eberhard Launitz (4 November 1806 – 13 December 1870) was a Russian-American sculptor.
Biography
Launitz was born into a Baltic German family in Riga, Governorate of Livonia, then part of the Russian Empire. He received a classical and ...
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
The Battle of Leipzig (french: Bataille de Leipsick; german: Völkerschlacht bei Leipzig, ); sv, Slaget vid Leipzig), also known as the Battle of the Nations (french: Bataille des Nations; russian: Битва народов, translit=Bitva ...
. In Frankfurt, he executed a Gutenberg 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 Baltic-German people German sculptors German male sculptors Kunstakademie Düsseldorf faculty Burials at Frankfurt Main Cemetery