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August Kiss
August Kiss, 1860s
Born(1802-10-11)11 October 1802
Paprotzan, Province of Silesia
Died(1865-03-24)24 March 1865
Berlin, Province of Brandenburg
NationalityGerman
Known forsculpture

August Karl Eduard Kiss, or Kiß (October 11, 1802[1] – March 24, 1865[2]) was a German sculptor, known for his monumental bronzes. His work was mostly executed in the Neoclassical architecture style and consisted largely of portraits and mythological and allegorical subjects.

Life and works

Kiss was born in Paprotzan (now Paprocany, part of Tychy in Poland) in Prussian Silesia.[3] He studied at the Prussian Academy of Arts under Christian Rauch,[4] Christian Friedrich Tieck,[4] and Karl Friedrich Schinkel.[5] As a student, his most famous work was the relief on the gable field of the St. Nicholas Church in Potsdam.

Kiss became well known in Germany by 1839 when he made a sculpture depicting an Amazon fighting a panther in marble for Ludwig I of Bavaria. It was later cast into bronze as Amazone zu Pferde, and placed outside the Altes Museum.[6][7]

Kiss was responsible for two monuments in Breslau: On the west part of the Ring, stood a bronze equestrian statue of Frederick The Great (1847), and another equestrian statue of Prussian King Frederick Wilhelm III (1862). His only other work in marble was the monument dedicated to Countess Laura Henckel von Donnersmarck, itself based on a previous work by mentor Christian Rauch dedicated to Queen Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.

In 1863, he was admitted as an associate member of the Royal Academy of Belgium.

Kiss died unexpectedly on 24 March 1865 in Berlin.

Legacy

In 1889, the Fairmount Park Art Association (now the Association for Public Art) obtained a plaster of one of Amazone zu Pferde. In 1929, the work was cast in bronze and now stands in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.[8]

An obelisk near Paprocany, his ancestral home, was commemorated in 2003.

Selected sculptures

References

  1. ^ Selle, Fabian; Kiss, August (2008). Die Skulpturengruppe "Amazone" vor dem Alten Museum in Berlin von August Kiss: 1837 - 1842 (in German). VDM, Müller. p. 8. ISBN 978-3-8364-6131-3. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
  2. ^ Verzeichnis der gemälde und bildwerke in der National-galerie zu Berlin (in German). E.S. Mittler und sohn. 1921. p. 158. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
  3. ^ Jordan, Max (1878). Beschreibendes Verzeichnis der Kunstwerke in der königlichen National-Galerie zu Berlin (in German). Mittler. p. 405. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
  4. ^ a b "Kiß, August". www.deutsche-biographie.de (in German). Retrieved 30 May 2024.
  5. ^ Karl Friedrich Schinkel: Schriftleitung von Paul Ortwin Rave (in German). Deutscher Kunstverlag. 1939. p. 43. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
  6. ^ Meyer, Hermann Julius (1889). Meyers Konversations-Lexikon: Eine Encyklopädie des allgemeinen Wissens (in German). Bibliographisches Institut. p. 793. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
  7. ^ Grissom, Carol A. (2009). Zinc Sculpture in America, 1850-1950. Associated University Presse. p. 227. ISBN 978-0-87413-031-7. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
  8. ^ "The Mounted Amazon Attacked by a Panther". Association for Public Art. Retrieved 30 May 2024.

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