Christian Unger (sculptor)
Johann Christian Unger (born September 20, 1746 in Spandau , † December 6, 1823 or 1827 in Berlin ) was a German sculptor .
Johann Christian Unger trained at the court sculptor's workshop in Berlin. From 1775 he worked under Antoine Tassaert and from 1788 under his successor Gottfried Schadow . As an employee in the court sculptor's workshop, he created many portrait busts, including a marble bust of Frederick II in 1806, as well as marble busts of Frederick William II, Frederick William III, the Queen and the Prince of the House. His works also included smaller and larger mythological figures and groups, including "Abraham and Isaac on Moria" in marble. He made the bas-relief of the front of the parapet of the Brandenburg Gate together with Conrad Nicolaus Boy after a drawing by Bernhard Rodes . Together with his colleague Heinrich Wichmann, he made an ornamental frieze for Schadow's house.
Unger's daughter Friederike was portrayed by Schadow in 1802 as "The Hope". Unger was appointed royal sculptor in 1804. At the time he was Schadow's oldest workshop assistant, alongside the younger Carl Friedrich Hagemann , Christian Friedrich Tieck , Rudolf Schadow and Christian Daniel Rauch .
literature
- Georg Kaspar Nagler: New general artist lexicon . tape 19 . EA Fleischmann, Munich 1849, p. 240 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
Individual evidence
- ^ Christian Unger , in: Writings of the Association for the History of Berlin . Volume 41-45, Berlin 1905, p. 47.
- ↑ Ulrike Krenzlin: Johann Gottfried Schadow . Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-345-00467-4 , p. 154 .
- ↑ Ulrike Krenzlin: Johann Gottfried Schadow . Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-345-00467-4 , p. 78 .
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| SURNAME | Unger, Christian |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Unger, Johann Christian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 20, 1746 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Spandau |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 6, 1823 or December 6, 1827 |
| Place of death | Berlin |