Artist: Christian Daniel Rauch
Dates: 2 January 1777 – 3 December 1857
Nationality: German
Title of Piece: Kranzwerfende Viktoria
Brief Biography: Christian Rauch was a sculptor and founded the school of sculpture in Berlin. Rauch was the foremost German sculptor of the 19th century executing some 70 marble busts and a number of colossal scale statues.