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Schievelbein, Hermann (Friedrich Anton)
(b Berlin, 18 Nov 1817; d Berlin, 6 May 1867). German sculptor. He trained at the Akademie in Berlin and first showed his work at the Akademie exhibition in 1836. He was apprenticed to Ludwig Wilhelm Wichmann and thus affiliated to the sculptural tradition of Gottfried Schadow. At the age of 20 Schievelbein moved to St Petersburg where he worked until c. 1841 under Joseph Karl Gottlieb Hermann (1800–69), a former pupil of Bertel Thorvaldsen. Schievelbein collaborated on the redecoration of the interior of the Winter Palace, partially burnt down in 1837, and some of the statues of angels for the dome of St Isaac’s Cathedral. With an academic travel grant awarded in 1841, Schievelbein was in Rome from February 1843 but he returned to Berlin in 1844 to provide one of the eight monumental groups of statues for the Schlossbrücke. The marble group Athena Instructing the Youth in the Use of Weapons (in situ) was followed by other architectural sculpture with mythological or religious subject-matter, for example six zinc statues of The Apostles (1845; Helsinki Cathedral). These works used a classical style following the principles of Christian Daniel Rauch and they established Schievelbein’s reputation. In 1853 the Berlin Akademie accepted him as a member, and in 1860 he became a professor.
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