Wilhelm Neumann-Torborg

He attended evening classes at the Royal Provincial Vocational School in Elberfeld, where he received his first lessons in drawing and painting.

[5] In subsequent years, Neumann-Torborg lived and worked in Rome,[4] where his wife, Emma Commichau, died after a short marriage.

Perhaps his best-known work,[2][3] the fountain "Faun and Nymph", was commissioned by Baron August von der Heydt and originally stood in the park of his estate.

[10] The sculpture includes a bench and a bust of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius Probus, and was recovered in pieces from the van der Heydt estate.

[5][6] In 2003, the granite pedestal of the monument was rediscovered during excavations at the Elberfeld Old Reformed Church, and placed on display in Blankstrasse, Wuppertal.