Herman Wilhelm Bissen
Herman Wilhelm Bissen ( born October 13, 1798 in Schleswig, † March 10, 1868 in Copenhagen) was a Danish sculptor.
At 18, he went to Copenhagen and became model signatories at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. The famous Danish neoclassical sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844) persuaded him to go to the sculpture. He traveled in 1824 to Rome and met Christian Daniel Rauch in Berlin. His Italian time extended over ten years. Under the influence of Thorvaldsen's his lyrical - romantic style changed in favor of Classicism. In 1834 he was back in Denmark again, and soon became a professor at the Art Academy. His style was transformed back to the vigorous realism. In 1848, he sat down by competing against its competitors Jens Adolf Jerichau ( 1816-1883 ) and abolished the national monumental sculpture Den danske country soldier.
In 1862 he designed the monumental tomb soldiers Idstedter The Lion ( Flensburg in the main cemetery ). The lion was a symbol for the Danish victory over Schleswig- Holstein in the Battle of Idstedt ( 25-26. July 1850 ). As revenge abducted the victorious Prussians in 1864 the lion to Berlin, where he stood for a long time in the courtyard of the main military academy in West-field lights. In 1945, plastic bite to Copenhagen, where he was to about 2011 before Danish Arsenal Museum. Today, he is back to his old place in Flensburg. In Berlin today is a custom built in 1874 zinc - copy, see Flensburg Lion ( Berlin).
Thus, the German -speaking Dane bites stood with his art during his lifetime in the center of this German -Danish conflict, making him but did not stop to spend a greater amount of time of his life's evening in Germany.