Albert Moritz Wolff

Albert Moritz Wolff ( born June 15, 1854 in Berlin, † August 23 1923 in Lüneburg ) was a German sculptor and medalist.

Life

About Life by AM Wolff ( so its signature) is not enough awareness. To suspect is trained as a teacher of drawing, since the activity is detectable in this profession. The first known sculptural work is a relief on the tomb dated 1879 Reinhold in Hamburg. The pupil of the Berlin Academy in 1881 presented the first time at the Berlin Academy exhibition of ( bust preacher Nessler ). The sculpture has been a sideline for him at this time, because even in 1885 he has worked as an art teacher at the French Gymnasium Berlin. Some of his grave figures, grave reliefs, small sculptures and medals are over decades by different companies ( Gladbeck Berlin, WMF Geislingen, Gebr Lindt NFL Berlin, mint Werner & Sons Berlin) have been sold in large numbers as so-called catalog goods. Some of the auctioned at various art auctions bronzes show typical Russian motives and are signed in Cyrillic, which way suggests that Wolff also supplying the Russian market.

Albert Moritz Wolff is not related to the particular easy to be confused sculptor Albert Wolff ( 1814-1892 ).

Services

The artistic achievements Wolff lie less in the field of monumental sculpture rather than in the field of genre-like small sculptures and commemorative medals. The latter, he produced mainly for the Berlin Mint Werner & Sons.

Works