Johann Heinrich von Dannecker

He was entered in the military school at the age of thirteen,[1] but from 1772 to 1780 he was educated as a sculptor, together with Philipp Jakob Scheffauer.

On this the duke made him sculptor to the palace (1780), and for some time he was employed on child-angels and caryatids for the decoration of the reception rooms.

[1] After finishing the academy in 1780, he traveled to Paris, Rome, Bologna and Mantua and returned to Stuttgart in 1790, where he worked as a professor at the Hohe Karlsschule until 1794.

This is generally regarded as his masterpiece and one of the most important sculptures of the nineteenth century (today in the Liebieghaus, Frankfurt).

[3] In 1853 the building and the small park were sold to the city of Frankfurt and the collection reopened in 1856 in the Ariadneum, an octagonal annex to the Bethmann family's house (architects: Johann Georg Kayser and his son Ferdinand August).