Wilhelm von Rümann [SEP] date of birth
Wilhelm von Rümann
Wilhelm von Rümann (11 November 1850 – 6 February 1906) was a prominent German sculptor, based in Munich.
Life.
Rümann was born in Hanover. He studied from 1872 to 1874 at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich ("Akademie der Bildenden Künste München"), and from 1880 with Michael Wagmüller. From 1887 he taught at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. In 1891 he was raised to the nobility.
As well as numerous funerary monuments in the Alter Südfriedhof
Kaiser Wilhelm I equestrian statue (1898)
- Bad Urach: bust of Bismarck in the Schloßstraße
- Woerth, Alsace, France: Bavarian National War Memorial 1870, made 1889
Sources.
- "Rümann, Wilhelm von". In: Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker u. a  Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Band 29, E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1935
- Matrikeldatenbank der Akademie der Bildenden Künste: Wilhelm von Rümann (1850–1906)