François Gaspard Adam

There he probably studied ancient sculptures from the private collection of the cardinal Polignac, which his brother Lambert-Sigisbert restored and added to.

After a short stay in Paris, Adam entered the service of the Prussian king Frederick II in 1747 through the mediation of Marquis d'Argens, who appointed him the first court sculptor and put him in charge of the French sculpture studio in Berlin.

In 1749 the "Flora with Zephyr" was created for the uppermost vineyard terrace of Sanssouci, which a year later the "Cleopatra mourning Amor” followed.

He was also involved in the furnishing of the "French Rondells" in the adjoining south Parterre, for which he created marble figures and bas-reliefs.

His nephew Sigisbert François Michel executed some of the works, such as the “Mars” in the “French Rondell”, the bust of the legal reformer Samuel von Cocceji for the Berlin Court of Appeal and the statue of the Field Marshal Kurt Christoph von Schwerin for the Wilhelmplatz in Berlin.