Harro Magnussen

In 1889, he produced a bust of Otto von Bismarck that sold over 1,000 copies in plaster and bronze over the next ten years.

In 1899, his smaller works attracted the attention of Kaiser Wilhelm II, who commissioned him to do a figure of the dying Frederick the Great.

This finally brought him to public attention and he was awarded one of the coveted commissions for Wilhelm's ambitious Siegesallee project.

His work on that project earned him the Order of the Crown, Class IV.

Due to "suggestive evidence" (not specified), his death was briefly investigated as a possible murder by strangulation.