Drake, FRIEDRICH

Drake, FRIEDRICH, a celebrated German sculptor, born at Pyrmont, 23d June 1805, and trained under Rauch of Berlin. Among his principal works are 'The Eight Provinces of Prussia' (colossal allegorical figures, adorning a hall in the royal palace at Berlin), and a 'Warrior crowned by Victory,' which is reckoned one of the masterpieces of German sculpture. But Drake owes his celebrity chiefly to statues, busts, and medallions, and there are few of his great countrymen of whom he has not preserved a marble memorial. His statues of Schinkel, the two Humboldts, Rauch, Oken, his colossal statues of Frederick-William III., and William I. at Cologne, deserve especial mention; as also the busts of Bismarck and Moltke. Drake, long professor of Sculpture in the Academy at Berlin, died 6th April 1882.