Martin Gottlieb Klauer

He learned his trade in his hometown, from the Court Sculptor, Karl Adolph Kändler [de].

He also worked in Bad Berka, which was a major source of high quality sandstone.

His friendship with Johann Joachim Christoph Bode has led to speculation that he was a member of the Illuminati.

In addition to Goethe, he is known for definitive busts of Friedrich Schiller, Johann Gottfried Herder and Christoph Martin Wieland, as well as many other less familiar notables.

Although the great majority of his works are in Weimar, he occasionally went elsewhere; for example, four stone figures at the village church in Flurstedt.