Ernst Julius Hähnel was a German

Germans

The Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe. The English term Germans has referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages....

 sculptor.

Biography

He studied architecture under Rietschel

Ernst Friedrich August Rietschel

Ernst Friedrich August Rietschel was a German sculptor.-Biography:Rietschel was born in Pulsnitz, Saxony. At an early age he became an art student at Dresden, and subsequently a pupil of Rauch in Berlin. He there gained an art studentship, and studied in Rome in 1827-28...

 in Dresden, and under Schwanthaler

Ludwig Michael Schwanthaler

Ludwig Michael Schwanthaler, later ennobled as Ritter von Schwanthaler was a German sculptor.-Biography:Schwanthaler was born in Munich....

 in Munich

Munich

Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

, and sculpture at Rome

Rome

Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...

 and Florence. In 1835 he went to Munich, and in 1848 became professor at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. In 1855 he was invited to the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna is an institution of higher education in Vienna, Austria.- History :The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna was founded in 1692 as a private academy by the court-painter Peter Strudl, who became the Praefectus Academiae Nostrae. In 1701 he was ennobled as Baron of the Empire...

, where he was a successful teacher.

Works

Among his best works are a statue of Beethoven at Rome, and a Madonna. The bass-reliefs in the museum at Dresden are also his work. These were followed by the “Four Evangelists,” and the “Three Holy Kings,” of colossal size, for the tower at Neustadt-Dresden (1858), and the tomb of King Frederick Augustus II of Saxony

Frederick Augustus II of Saxony

Frederick Augustus II |Tyrol]], 9 August 1854) was King of Saxony and a member of the House of Wettin.He was the eldest son of Maximilian, Prince of Saxony --younger son of the Elector Frederick Christian of Saxony—by his...

 (1866).
He is remembered as the sculptor of the Beethoven Monument, Bonn

Beethoven Monument, Bonn

The Beethoven Monument is a large bronze statue of Ludwig van Beethoven that stands on the Münsterplatz in Bonn, Beethoven's birthplace. It was unveiled on 12 August 1845, in honour of the 75th anniversary of the composer's birth.-Background:...

.