Julius Lippelt

After displaying his talents by modelling animals in clay, he received his basic artistic training from the sculptor, Ernst Gottfried Vivié [de].

In 1847, he was able to attend the Prussian Academy of Arts and work in the studios of Ludwig Wilhelm Wichmann.

He spent 1859 in Italy, working on a commission for a statue of Venus and Adonis.

He was, however, able to complete only two of the four base figures ("Drama" and "Story"), when he died of tuberculosis, aged only thirty-four.

Just prior to his death, he had been awarded second place in a competition to create an equestrian monument, honoring Frederick William II of Prussia, in Cologne.