Hugo Rheinhold

Wolfgang Hugo Rheinhold was a German sculptor arguably most famous for his Affe mit Schdel . His name is often misspelled Reinhold.

Hugo Rheinhold was born in Oberlahnstein, Prussia, on March 26, 1853. He schooled in Koblenz before entering the merchant trade. When 21, Rheinhold sought success in the USA and became an import and export merchant, living in San Francisco where he had headquarters for his business as well as in Hamburg, where he settled in 1879. The next year he married his childhood sweetheart Emma Levy from Cologne, but tragically, she was to die in 1882, after only oneandahalf years of marriage. Emmas death had a huge impact Rheinhold. He sold his successful business and moved to Berlin to study science and philosophy at the FriedrichWilhelms University. In 1886, he studied under the sculptors Ernst Herter and Max Kruse, before officially enrolling as a student at the Berlin Academy of Arts . He died, aged 47, in Berlin.

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