Karl Hans Bernewitz

Karl Hans Bernewitz (Latvian: Kārlis Bernevics; 17 May 1858 – 19 December 1934) was a Baltic German sculptor.

In 1881 he entered the Academy of Arts in Berlin, where he studied under Reinhold Begas, whose assistant he became.

In Berlin he worked both as a sculptor and as a designer, notably at the Royal Porcelain Factory.

[1][2] Sculptures by Bernewitz include funerary monuments, portrait busts, and statuettes as well as a statue of Albert of Riga in the cloister of Riga Cathedral (1895), a sculpture Bookworm for the Murhardsche Bibliothek (today part of Kassel University Library) and a proposed quadriga for a monument to Emperor Wilhelm I in Berlin, among other works.

[1][2] Media related to Karl Hans Bernewitz at Wikimedia Commons