Walter Schott

His father, Eduard Schott [de], was a well-known metallurgist who was the manager and inspector at the smelters of Count Heinrich zu Stolberg-Wernigerode.

After completing his standard education, he studied in Hanover from 1880 to 1883, at the Prussian Academy of Arts under Fritz Schaper.

[1] After 1885, he worked as a free-lance sculptor in Berlin, creating statues in the prevailing Neo-Baroque style.

[2] Over the years, he became almost totally dependent on the Kaiser's patronage and found little work to do after World War I, a fate which befell many creative artists too closely associated with the Imperial government.

His remains were cremated and his ashes placed in an urn at his father's grave in Ilsenburg.