TIECK, Christian Friedrich - b. 1776 Berlin, d. 1851 Berlin - WGA

TIECK, Christian Friedrich

(b. 1776 Berlin, d. 1851 Berlin)

German sculptor, a pupil of Johann Gottfried Schadow.

Based on a concept by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Tieck created the tomb of General Gerhard von Scharnhorst at Berlin’s Invalidenfriedhof in 1822. He also created a bust of Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder and a lion made of bronze after a model by Christian Daniel Rauch. Tieck’s monument to Nicolaus Copernicus was erected posthumously in Thorn.

Clemens Brentano
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Clemens Brentano

Tieck was a close associate of Rauch in Berlin. In 1818 they set up a studio together and collaborated on a number of works. Tieck was also an excellent portraitist.

Clemens Brentano (1778-1842) is one the most important representatives of German Romanticism, a literary movement which originated in Jena at the end of the 1790s, dissociating itself on the one hand from the literary-political programme of the so-called Berlin Late-Enlightenment (Friedrich Nicolai) and, on the other hand, from the aesthetic objectives of Weimar Classicism (Friedrich Schiller, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe).

Tomb of Gerhard von Scharnhorst
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Tomb of Gerhard von Scharnhorst

Tieck was a close associate of Rauch in Berlin. In 1818 they set up a studio together and collaborated on a number of works. In this case the lion is by Christian Daniel Rauch.

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