Friedrich Reusch

Johann Friedrich Reusch (5 September 1843, Siegen - 15 October 1906, Agrigento) was a German sculptor and art teacher.

Initially, he was going to follow him into the carpentry trade, but his artistic talents were noticed by the sculptor, August Kiss, who advised him to go to Berlin to study.

There, he attended the Prussian Academy of Arts until 1867, after which he worked at the studios of Albert Wolff, whom he assisted on an equestrian monument to King Frederick William III.

His major works include the marble group, “Marktverkehr" (Market traffic, 1879, now lost) for the Belle-Alliance Bridge (now the Halle-Gate Bridge [de]), and “Der Dämon des Dampfes" (The Demon of Steam, 1880) for the Technical University.

While there, he executed numerous busts, memorials and decorative figures for public buildings; notably the statues of "Albert, Duke of Prussia" (1891), and Kaiser Wilhelm I (1894), both outside Königsberg Castle.