Carl Seffner

Bach's skull was found in 1894 during the building of St. John, Leipzig [de],[2] in 1895, Seffner and Wilhelm His were commissioned to produce an anatomical reconstruction.

The same year, Seffner became a member of the Masonic Lodge Minerva zu den drei Palmen [de].

[4] Seffner went on to produce sculptures of Karl Heine (1896/1897), the Mayor Carl Wilhelm Otto Koch [de] (1898), young Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as a student in Leipzig (1902),[5] and Edvard Grieg (1904).

[6] Additional works include the busts of Albert of Saxony, Alois Senefelder, and Friedrich Koenig.

In 1908, Seffner produced a statue of Bach, which stands near the proximity of the west entrance to St. Thomas Church.