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Cbe Ctxas Yinte rts Association
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Elisabet ney museum
DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF
ELISABET NEY
Elisabet Ney was born in Westphalia. Her
father was a nephew of Napoleon's great marshal.
While yet a child she startled her parents by
announcing her determination to study art and
especially sculpture. In conservative Germany it
was looked upon as impossible for a girl to invade
the sacred realms of the sculptor's studio, yet in
spite of what seemed insuperable objections the
young girl carried her point, studied at Munich,
and finally went to Berlin, and was accepted as
a pupil of the far-famed Rauch. By the time she
was twenty, fame and fortune had smiled upon
her. She was commissioned to execute busts and
statues of Von Humboldt, Liebig, Jacob Grimm,
Schopenhauer, Garibaldi and Bismarck. This last
was considered a special honor, as King William
of Prussia, desiring to show his great gratitude for
the prime minister who was making all things
possible, selected from the dazzling array of talent
Elisabet Ney to execute his commission. While
the young artist was at work upon the statue of
George V. of Hanover, the illustrious Kaulbach
painted her portrait, which now hangs in the
gallery at Hanover. Her statue of Ludwig II.,
the unfortunate king of Bavaria, now stands before
the beautiful palace of Linderhof. Prometheus
Bound shows that she was a master of ideal
conception as well as of portrait sculpture. The
plaster casts of most of these great works are today
in the studio.
Being not only an artist, but also a dreaming
philosopher of Utopias to come, Miss Ney and
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