Schilling, JOHANNES

Schilling, JOHANNES, German sculptor, was born at Mittweida in Saxony, on 23d June 1828, and was trained in Dresden and Berlin. In 1853 he went to Italy, having won a three years' travelling scholarship. In 1868 he was elected a professor of the Academy of Fine Art in Dresden, where he had been settled since his return from Italy. His first great work was the four groups of the Seasons for Dresden; for that city he also executed monuments of Rietschel the sculptor and King John of Saxony, and the colossal Dionysus and Ariadne in bronze for the Royal theatre. His masterpiece is the national monument of Germania on the Niederwald (q.v.), commemorative of the war of 1870-71. Besides numbers of frescoes and similar ornamental works, he has also turned out monuments of Schiller (for Vienna) and the Emperor Maximilian (for Trieste), and a war memorial for Hamburg.