Eduard Mayer

Eduard Mayer ( born August 17, 1812 in Asbacherhütte, † October 12, 1881 in Bad Aibling ) was a German sculptor and student of Christian Daniel Rauch and Ernst Rietschel.

From 1840 to 1843 he lived in Paris, where he sometimes worked autonomously partly with David d' Angers. In 1842 he settled in Rome. He trained with preference figures from Greek mythology or small genre motifs, more antique than in naturalistic spirit, like Bacchus or Mercury as Argus Slayer (1877, National Gallery in Berlin).

Two of his figures, allegories of Science and Technology, the Orangerie adorn the Potsdam Park Sanssouci.

Allegory "Science " at the Mittelbau the New Orangery

Signature Mayers

Capitoline Venus, marble, 1854, Stuttgart, castle Rosenstein