Konrad Knoll

Konrad Knoll ( born September 9, 1829 in Bad Bergzabern, † June 14, 1899 in Munich) was a German sculptor.

Life

Konrad Knoll learned in his native at the renowned sculptor priest Bernhard Würschmitt, formed from 1845 in Karlsruhe and Stuttgart, then in Munich with Halbig and attended 1848-1852, the Academy there.

His first works were a sign Tannhäuser (1856 ) and a statue of Wolfram von Eschenbach for the poet's birthplace in the form of a fountain. In 1860, he created a model of a statue of Sappho, which he carried out later for King Ludwig II of Bavaria in marble. In the next two years, the colossal statues of Henry the Lion and Ludwig of Bavaria occurred on the Old Town Hall in Munich. Immediately after completion, Knoll began in 1865, work on the Munich fish fountain. In between, he created the model for the monument Johann Philipp Palms in Braunau am Inn, which, as the fish fountain was cast by Ferdinand von Miller in ore.

From the period immediately thereafter dated a life-size group: St. Elizabeth, with her three children in violation of the Wartburg, and 1868 Knoll modeled the colossal bust of the historian Louis Haeusser for the cemetery in Heidelberg. This was followed by a colossal bust of Ludwig van Beethoven, the monument to Melchior Meyr in Nördlingen and a bust of the German Emperor.

Knoll was a professor at the Technical University of Munich.

Johann Philipp Palm

Union Memorial Kaiserslautern

Wolfram-von -Eschenbach Fountain