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Walter Schott BIOGRAPHY
1861 Isenburg, Germany - 1938 Berlin, Germany. Known for: Neo-baroque monument sculpture, fountains, portrait busts.
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Walter Schott was born in 1862 in Ilsenburg (Harz) and studied at the Berlin arts academy under Fritz Schaper (1841-1919). From 1885 he worked as a freelance artist in Berlin. Schott, who was later... Read full biography
Walter Schott was born in 1862 in Ilsenburg (Harz) and studied at the Berlin arts academy under Fritz Schaper (1841-1919). From 1885 he worked as a freelance artist in Berlin. Schott, who was later granted the title Royal Professor, created numerous monuments in the neo-Baroque style for Wilhelm... Read full biography
Walter Schott was born in 1862 in Ilsenburg (Harz) and studied at the Berlin arts academy under Fritz Schaper (1841-1919). From 1885 he worked as a freelance artist in Berlin. Schott, who was later granted the title Royal Professor, created numerous monuments in the neo-Baroque style for Wilhelm II. Besides the ‘Kugelspielerin’ (Woman playing with a ball), the ‘Nymphenbrunnen’ (nymph fountain) in the park of Schlitz Castle and the figures for the Berlin Cathedral are his best-known works. Next... Read full biography
Walter Schott was born in 1862 in Ilsenburg (Harz) and studied at the Berlin arts academy under Fritz Schaper (1841-1919). From 1885 he worked as a freelance artist in Berlin. Schott, who was later granted the title Royal Professor, created numerous monuments in the neo-Baroque style for Wilhelm II. Besides the ‘Kugelspielerin’ (Woman playing with a ball), the ‘Nymphenbrunnen’ (nymph fountain) in the park of Schlitz Castle and the figures for the Berlin Cathedral are his best-known works. Next to Reinhold Begas, Walter Schott was one of the most popular sculptors in the Wilhelminian era and designed busts, fountains, decorative works and many monuments.... Read full biography
Walter Schott was born in 1862 in Ilsenburg (Harz) and studied at the Berlin arts academy under Fritz Schaper (1841-1919). From 1885 he worked as a freelance artist in Berlin. Schott, who was later granted the title Royal Professor, created numerous monuments in the neo-Baroque style for Wilhelm II. Besides the ‘Kugelspielerin’ (Woman playing with a ball), the ‘Nymphenbrunnen’ (nymph fountain) in the park of Schlitz Castle and the figures for the Berlin Cathedral are his best-known works. Next to Reinhold Begas, Walter Schott was one of the most popular sculptors in the Wilhelminian era and designed busts, fountains, decorative works and many monuments.... Read full biography
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A German sculptor and medallion maker, Walter Schott studied from 1880 - 1883 at the Berlin Academy. He created a number of designs for KPM Berlin, Rosenthal and the Schwarzburger Werkstätten.
In 1897 he produced his most famous work, the female ball player, as a life-size bronze sculpture for the flower garden at the southern end of the Königsallee in Düsseldorf.Biography from Auctionata
Walter Schott was born in 1862 in Ilsenburg (Harz) and studied at the Berlin arts academy under Fritz Schaper (1841-1919). From 1885 he worked as a freelance artist in Berlin. Schott, who was later granted the title Royal Professor, created numerous monuments in the neo-Baroque style for Wilhelm II.
Besides the ‘Kugelspielerin’ (Woman playing with a ball), the ‘Nymphenbrunnen’ (nymph fountain) in the park of Schlitz Castle and the figures for the Berlin Cathedral are his best-known works.
Next to Reinhold Begas, Walter Schott was one of the most popular sculptors in the Wilhelminian era and designed busts, fountains, decorative works and many monuments.