Jean-Pierre-Antoine Tassaert
Jean -Pierre -Antoine Tassaert (* around 1727 in Antwerp ( Christening 19 August); † January 21, 1788 in Berlin) was a Franco- Flemish sculptor at the junction of the Rococo to Neoclassicism.
Tassaert comes from a family of sculptors and received his first instruction from his father. He then went to England and in 1746 to Paris, where he worked in the studio of René Michel Slodtz and among other things, by a statue of Louis XV. was known.
Was Tassaert with Marie- Edmée Tassaert, born Moreau (1736-1791) married, a miniature painter from Paris. She made the 13 -year-old Johann Gottfried Schadow from the drawing.
Prince Henry of Prussia commissioned him to execute several statues and groups for his palace in Berlin, where Tassaert moved to 1770.
Here he became very busy and was rector of the Academy of Arts. One of his students and later was succeeded by Johann Gottfried Schadow.
He created (later removed and replaced by statues of the sculptor August Kiß; originals in the Bode Museum received ), among others, the statues of generals Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz and James Keith on the (former) Wilhelm Platz in Berlin and busts of Frederick II and Moses Mendelssohn.