Rudolf Schadow

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Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein - Rudolph Schadow (1820)
Rudolf Schadow (left) with the "sandal binder" in the background. Next to him Bertel Thorvaldsen and his brother Friedrich Wilhelm (1815)

Karl Zeno Rudolf (Ridolfo) Schadow (born July 9, 1786 in Rome ; † January 31, 1822 there ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Rudolf Schadow was the eldest son and student of Johann Gottfried Schadow . Growing up in Berlin, he went to Rome in 1810 with his brother Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow to study, where he took over Christian Daniel Rauch's studio . In contrast to his brothers Friedrich Wilhelm and Felix Schadow , he decided not to paint, but instead became a sculptor. His first independent work, a statue of Paris , was exhibited in the Berlin Academy in 1812 . It clearly shows the influence of the Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen .

Affected by homesickness and low self-confidence, Schadow returned to Berlin for a short time, but traveled back to Rome in January 1812, accompanied by Christian Daniel Rauch. He converted to Catholicism in 1814 . He turned down a professorship at the Düsseldorf Academy in 1818 and stayed in Rome. He died only 36 years old and was buried in Rome in Sant'Andrea delle Fratte .

Works

Schadow showed a more romantic than classicistic approach to sculpture with a sentimental tone.

  • “The Spinner” marble; Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, 1816

  • The sandal maker marble; Munich, Neue Pinakothek, 1817

  • Girl with pigeons (The Innocence) Alte Nationalgalerie Berlin, 1820

literature

  • from Donop:  Schadow, Ridolfo . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 30, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, pp. 513-515.
  • Brigitte Schmitz: “Rudolf Schadow. A lyricist among the classicist sculptors ”. In: Zeitschrift Bildende Kunst, issue 7, 1986, ed. Association of Visual Artists of the German Democratic Republic, pp. 321–322, 3 figs.
  • Götz Eckardt: Ridolfo Schadow. A sculptor in Rome between classicism and romanticism . Edited by Dorette Eckardt, Jutta von Simson and Bernd Ernsting, 176 pp., 120 illustrations, catalog raisonné of the pictorial works (65 main numbers) and hand drawings, documentation, short biography, bibliography; 2000 (LETTER Schriften Vol. 13), ISBN 3-930633-11-6
  • Thomas Blisniewski : "... and creates with diligent hands" - female handicrafts in works by Rudolf Schadow, Carl Joseph Begas and Johann Anton Ramboux in the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum - Fondation-Corboud. In: Cologne Museum Bulletin. Reports and research from the museums of the City of Cologne (3) 2001, pp. 4–18.

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personal data
SURNAME Schadow, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schadow, Ridolfo; Schadow, Karl Zeno Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1786
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1822
Place of death Rome