Ernst Rietschel

(1804–1861) tysk professor

Ernst Rietschel (1804–1861) is listed in the catalogue as a painter and a sculptor. By year of birth, Ernst Rietschel belongs to the chapter ‘Romanticism’ in this site’s history of art.

Ernst Rietschel was born in Pulsnitz and died in Dresden. Ernst Rietschel trained at Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. Ernst Rietschel worked in Berlin, Rome, and Palermo. Ernst Rietschel became a member of Académie des beaux-arts, Academy of Arts, Berlin, and Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. The awards include Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order and Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art. The students included Adolf von Donndorf, Robert Johann Salemann, Johannes Schilling, and Robert Henze.

The best-known works include ‘Goethe–Schiller Monument’, ‘Goethe–Schiller Monument’, and ‘Martin Luther Monument’. The catalogue has 9 works by Ernst Rietschel with free images. The dated works span the years 1847–1908. Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie holds at least one work by Ernst Rietschel. Wikidata links one work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘Neoclassicism’.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Rudolph Wiegmann, Auguste-Hyacinthe Debay, Jacques Raymond Brascassat, Thomas Allom, and Timofey Andreyevich Neff.

• Romanticism
• Goethe–Schiller Monument