Konrad Knoll

Born in Bad Bergzabern, Konrad Knoll studied first under the renowned sculptor and priest Bernhard Würschmitt, before travelling in 1845 to Karlsruhe and Stuttgart, and then to Munich under Halbig, attending the academy from 1848 to 1852.

In the next two years, he created colossal statues of Henry the Lion and Ludwig of Bavaria at the Old Town Hall of Munich.

Immediately after the completion of these statues Knoll began working on the Fischbrunnen in front of the New Town Hall (1865).

[2] At this time Knoll also created the model for the monument to Johann Philipp Palm in Braunau am Inn, which, like the fountain, was cast in bronze by Ferdinand von Miller.

From the period immediately afterwards came a life-size group: St. Elizabeth with her three children at the Wartburg,[3] and in 1868 a bust of the historian Ludwig Häusser for the cemetery in Heidelberg.