Theodor Kalide

With her monograph on the sculptor Theodor Kalide (1801-1863), Justine Nagler closes a sensitive gap in Berlin art historiography. For the first time, a complete catalog raisonné and a comprehensive analysis of his uvre are available. The biography, freed from legends, exemplarily shows the circumstances of success and failure of a genius artist. As a student of Schadow and Rauch, the promising Kalide developed a highly individual innovative spirit that delighted open-minded art connoisseurs but remained incomprehensible to many contemporaries. With exceptional works such as the monumental "Peace Vase" for Friedrich Wilhelm III, which testifies to his fascination with Schinkel, he broke through traditional genre boundaries. In his own studio on Pariser Platz, Kalide completed statues and monuments to his Silesian homeland - successes he would recall in de.