3-824: Löwenkämpfer ( The Lion Fighter ) is an 1858 bronze equestrian statue by Albert Wolff , installed outside the Altes Museum in Berlin, Germany. An 1892 copy stands in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art . The companion piece is Amazone zu Pferde , also installed outside the Altes Museum. This article about a sculpture in Germany is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Albert Wolff (sculptor) Carl Conrad Albert Wolff (14 November 1814, Neustrelitz – 20 June 1892, Berlin)
6-413: Was a German sculptor, and medallist . His father was the architect and sculptor Christian Philipp Wolff , who died when Albert was only six. At the age of seventeen, he followed in the footsteps of his older brother and moved to Berlin, where he found a position in the workshop of his father's friend Christian Daniel Rauch and took night classes in anatomical drawing at a local art school. In 1844, he
9-783: Was sent to Carrara (where the best marble could be found) to produce statues for the terrace of Sanssouci . After two years in Italy, he returned to Berlin, assisting Rauch on a monument of Frederick the Great , but he also worked free-lance, producing a fountain with Countess Anna Raczynska (1823-1906) represented as Hygieia (in Posen ) and a marble crucifix for a church in Kamenz . Shortly after, he opened his own workshop. In addition to his larger works, he produced many smaller figures, statuettes and decorations that were widely copied. In 1866, he
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