Gottlieb Elster

Gottlieb Elster (8 October 1867 – 6 December 1917) was a German sculptor.

He studied at the Braunschweig University of Technology from 1888 to 1891, later attending the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich.

He then went to Berlin, where he studied under Otto Lessing, Fritz Schaper and, until 1905, worked with Adolf Brütt.

In 1910, he became Brütt's successor as Director of the Weimar Sculpture School and their foundry.

In 1909, he received one of the five prizes given in a competition to create the monument for Fritz Reuter in Stavenhagen, but the contract was eventually awarded to Wilhelm Wandschneider.