August Kiss
August Kiß ( born October 11, 1802 in Paprotzan at Pless, Upper Silesia, today Tychy, † March 24, 1865 in Berlin ) was a German sculptor.
Life
Kiß went in 1822 to Berlin, where he studied at the Academy and in Rauch's studio and carried out according to Schinkel's compositions, the reliefs of the tympanum at the Nikolai Church in Potsdam. In January 1839 he modeled the fighting with a panther Amazon, which made his name known. He led her in 1842 for King Ludwig I in marble, and later it was placed in bronze casting of fishing before the Altes Museum in Berlin. The highest human expression of power of the brutal violence of the attack of a wild animal against the artist has brought in a striking manner to intuition.
1847 was unveiled at Breslau modeled by Kiß and suit man executed in bronze equestrian statue of Frederick the Great. The King Friedrich Wilhelm III. formed Kiß twice in bronze, once for Potsdam walking in a general's uniform with coat and uncovered head, then on horseback with the laurel wreath for Konigsberg ( 1851). Six female allegorical figures adorn the pedestal of the monument at the corners, while the fields are adorned with reliefs made of Prussian history.
Furthermore Kiß created a St. Michael, who conquers the dragon, in bronze; a gift of King Frederick William IV to his brother, the future Emperor William, to commemorate the muted by him uprising in Baden ( Schloss Babelsberg ), a colossal equestrian statue of St. George slaying the dragon in bronze (formerly in the castle courtyard in Berlin, now the Spree in the Nikolai quarter), a still image Beuth before the Berlin Academy of Architecture and the bronze figures for the Wilhelm Platz in Berlin, which replaced six older marble statues. Four of them, Keith, Zieten, Seydlitz and the Old Dessauer, remained unchanged; Winterfeldt and Schwerin modeled Kiß new. Wilhelmplatz is now part of the Wilhelmstrasse, overbuilt with post-war buildings of the former GDR. Zieten and the Old Dessauer are now the lapidary caught and are in old freshness back to the Wilhelmstrasse / corner Mohrenstrasse.
The only major marble work, which completed Kiß, is a grave monument of the Countess Laura Henckel von Donnersmarck, which inspired by smoke monument of Queen Louise.