Ferdinand Schlöth

Lukas Ferdinand Schlöth (25 January 1818, Basel - 2 August 1891, Lutzenberg) was a Swiss sculptor in the late Classical style.

He was born in Basel to Heinrich Ludwig Schlöth and Maria Salome Treu as the sixth of ten children.

During this time, he also took drawing lessons from Hieronymus Hess[3] and studied modeling with the sculptor Johann Heinrich Neustück [de].

[4] One of his teachers was probably his fellow Swiss emigrant, Heinrich Max Imhof, with whom he would later develop a hateful rivalry.

[9][10] TIn Rome he experienced financial hardships and he often wasn't able to work due to a lack of Carrara marble.