[1] On the recommendation of the mining office (Oberbergamt) Kalide went from Silesia to Berlin around 1818/1819 where he studied at the Royal Prussian Academy of Arts.

Kalides first life-size work completely after their invention, "Boy with a Swan" was first commissioned by Frederick William III of Prussia in bronze for the Charlottenburg Palace garden.

During the devastation of the National Gallery in World War II, the marble group was severely damaged and is preserved only as a torso.

The Friedrich Wilhelm von Reden monument [pl] with the bronze cast statue was erected in 1853 on the mine site (demolished in 1945).

Kalide, who worked in his own sculptor's studio in Berlin (Unter den Linden, corner of Pariser Platz), died in 1863 of a stroke in Gliwice and was buried there at the cemetery.