Ludwig Brunow

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Ludwig Brunow (July 9, 1843 – January 13, 1913) was a German sculptor. He was born as the illegitimate son of the local sexton’s daughter and spent his early years mostly as a shepherd. He later caught up with his education, did an apprenticeship in carpentry in Lübz, and worked as a journeyman in Rostock where he began taking drawing lessons. In 1866 his plan to move to America fell through, and he became a student of Eduard Lürssen at the Bauakademie in Berlin. In 1867 art historian Friedrich Eggers noticed his talent and, at Eggers’s urging, Brunow moved to the Prussian Academy of Art. From 1871 to 1873 he worked as an assistant for Rudolf Siemering and Christian Genschow. He won his first major award in 1876 at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia and, that same year, received the Verdienstkreuz of the House Order of the Wendish Crown from Mecklenburg-Schwerin. In 1893 he was named Grand Ducal Professor. He closed his studio in 1901 and stopped taking large projects. He enjoyed chamber music and played in a private quartet with the poet Karl Eggers (Friedrich Eggers’s brother) and the writer Heinrich Seidel. His grave in the Alter Zwölf-Apostel-Kirchhof is unmarked.