Friedrich Wilhelm Eugen Döll

Friedrich Wilhelm Eugen Doell ( born October 8, 1750 in Veilsdorf in Hildburghausen, † March 30, 1816 in Gotha ) is a German sculptor.

Life and work

Friedrich Wilhelm Eugen Doell was born on October 8, 1750 in Veilsdorf in Hildburghausen. He learned initially from the sculptor Ney.

As a young sculptor he spent on behalf of the Hereditary Prince Ernst of Saxe- Gotha -Altenburg ( 1772 Duke Ernst II ) the years 1770 to 1773 in Paris and Rome. In Rome, he continued his education under the guidance of Raphael Mengs and Johann Friedrich Reiffenstein.

After his return, Friedrich Wilhelm Eugen Doell was appointed court sculptor in 1781 and received contracts from the residences Gotha, Anhalt -Dessau and Meiningen. It originated portrait busts, monuments and reliefs. 1786, he became a professor in 1787 and the oversight of the Gotha monuments it was transferred.

Others

Doell also gave drawing lessons and woke et al in the young Louise Seidler ( the 1800 to 1803 the Higher School for Girls Sophie Ludolfine Stielers visited in Gotha ) the interest in the art of drawing.

Works

His main works are:

  • Faith, love and hope in the main church in Lüneburg
  • 22 Main reliefs in stucco on the royal riding school in Dessau
  • Presented a life-size statue of the Empress Catherine II as Minerva
  • Same Empress, before which sacrifices a girl on the altar
  • Winckelmann's tomb in the Rotonda in Rome
  • The busts of Sappho and the Raphael Mengs
  • The nine Muses, Bas Relief
  • Gustav Adolf of Sweden on horseback, crowned by Victory, Bas Relief
  • The life-size figures of Minerva, a muse and Hygieia
  • The grave monuments of the Countess von Einsiedel in Dresden and the Duke Charles of Meiningen
  • Monument Gotthold Ephraim Lessing on the Library in Wolfenbüttel
  • Kepler monument in Regensburg
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