August Weizenberg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Russian sculptor
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Place of Birth: Erastvere, Põlva County, Estonia
About August Weizenberg
- August Weizenberg (6 April 1837, Ritsik – 22 November 1921, Tallinn) was an Estonian sculptor.
- His father was a shoemaker and he learnt how to carve wood in Erastvere from 1858 to 1862. During the 1860s, he worked as a cabinetmaker in Frankfurt and Berlin.
- Thanks to a sponsorship from Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, he travelled to Saint Petersburg where he was trained by Alexander Bock.
- He later studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts, and from 1870 to 1873 at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich.
- From 1873 to 1890, he lived in Rome.
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