62 THE FINE ARTS. 
Leopold of Dessau, known by the name of “the old Dessauer,” and the © 
model of the beautiful quadriga over the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin are 
works of Schadow’s. He too was raised to the rank of nobility. Schadow 
had two sons, one of whom, Rudolf, born in 1786, also a sculptor of reputa- 
tion, died at Rome in 1822; his Girl spinning and Girl binding her sandal 
are famous. His last work, Penthesilea, was finished by his friend Wolf. 
His brother, Wilhelm von Schadow, is painter and director of the Academy 
of Arts at Dusseldorf. He was born in 1789. 
Christian Frederick Tieck, a brother of the famous poet Ludwig Tieck, 
was a pupil of the elder or so-called “old Schadow.” He was born in 
Berlin in 1776, and exhibited at an early age so great a talent for sculpture 
and drawing, that, after being for a while under the instruction of Betten- 
kober, he was received by Schadow into his atelier, and afterwards 
perfected himself in Dresden, Paris, and Rome. His forte, like that of 
David in Paris, to whom Tieck is greatly indebted, lies in portraits; and 
a good portion of the busts of celebrated Germans placed in the Valhalla 
at Regensburg are the productions of Tieck’s chisel. But he has also pro- 
duced some admirable larger works. We will instance only the statues 
wrought in copper after his model in the cathedral at Berlin; and his 
beautiful ornamental works on the theatre newly erected in Berlin by 
Schinkel. 
But of greater importance for the advancement of the art of sculpture 
in Germany are the works of Christian Rauch. He was born at Arolsen in 
Westphalia, in 1777, and made his first studies under Ruhl in Cassel, but was 
compelled by necessity to change for a while his intended course of life and 
become page to queen Louisa of Prussia. He here employed his leisure 
hours in modelling and sculpture; and this coming accidentally to the 
knowledge of the queen, she furnished him the means of completing his 
studies and going to Rome, where he produced many busts and reliefs, until 
the king of Prussia recalled him in 1811 and charged him with the execu- 
tion of a sarcophagus for the queen, who had died in the meanwhile. 
Rauch performed the task; and in the exquisitely beautiful sarcophagus, 
which forms a couch whereupon the body of the queen reposes, we recognise 
the pious gratitude with which the artist labored on this tribute to the 
memory of his benefactress. The monument stands in the small sepulchral 
chapel in the royal tomb in the palace garden of Charlottenburg near Berlin, 
and which now contains also the sarcophagus of the king himself likewise 
executed by Rauch. Jauch has produced besides these a great number of 
admirable works. We will mention only the statues of generals Scharnhorst 
and Bilow of Dennewitz near the main guard-house in Berlin, and opposite 
the statue of Prince Blicher of Wahlstadt near the opera house, which were 
modelled by Rauch, cast by Lequine, and chiselled by Vuarin; and on the 
pedestals of which, in the historical groups, we recognise among the stand- 
ard-bearers the portraits of Tieck, Rauch, Schadow, and Schinkel. Rauch 
modelled another bronze statue of Lliicher for the city of Breskau, and also 
the beautiful monument to the deceased king Maavmilian I. of Bavaria for 
Munich. This monument has likewise very fine reliefs and works executed 
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