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See also:REINHOLD See also:BEGAS (1831- )
, See also:German sculptor, younger son of Karl See also:Begas, the painter, was See also:born at See also:Berlin on the 15th of See also:July 1831
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He received his See also:early See also:education (1846-1851) in the ateliers of C
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See also:Rauch and L
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Wichmann
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During a See also:period of study in See also:Italy, from 1856 to 1858, he was influenced by See also:Bocklin and See also:Lenbach in the direction of a naturalistic See also:style in See also:sculpture
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This tendency was marked in the See also:group " Borussia," executed for the See also:facade of the See also:exchange in Berlin, which first brought him into See also:general See also:notice
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In 1861 he was appointed See also:professor at the See also:art school at See also:Weimar, but retained the See also:appointment only a few months
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That he was chosen, after competition, to execute the statue of See also:Schiller for the Gendarmen Markt in Berlin, was a high See also:tribute to the fame he had already acquired; and the result, one of the finest statues in the German See also:metropolis, entirely justified his selection
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Since the See also:year 187o, Begas has entirely dominated the plastic art in See also:Prussia, but especially in Berlin
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Among his See also:chief See also:works (luring this period are the See also:colossal statue of Borussia for the See also: See A . G . See also:Meyer, " See also:Reinhold Begas " in Kiinstler-Monographien, ed . H . Knackfuss, Heft xx . (See also:Bielefeld, 1897; new ed., 1901) . |
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