# Monument of Count von der Mark [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [SCHADOW, Johann Gottfried]() - Date: 1801-1850 - Technique: Marble ## Commentary Schadow, who was born and died in Berlin, is considered one of the major figures of the 19th-century German school. After several years in Rome in the 1780's, he returned to Berlin, and there, reworking a model by his teacher, Tassaert, he erected the impressive tomb of Count von der Mark in the Dorotheenstädtische Kirche. The Count, who died at the age of nine, was the illegitimate son of King Frederick-William II of Prussia. The child is shown asleep under a niche harbouring the Three Fates. The work shows the sobriety and harmony of Schadow's Neoclassicism. ## Related artworks - [Bust of Friderika von Mecklenburg]() - [Bust of Friedrich Gilly]() - [Busts of Henry I \(the Fowler\), King of the Germans, his Son Emperor Otto the Great, and Emperor Conrad II \(the Salian\)]() - [Crown Princess Louise and Princess Frederica of Prussia]() - [Crown Princess Louise and Princess Frederica of Prussia]() - [Monument to General von Zieten]() - [Quadriga]() - [Reclining Girl]() - [Reclining Girl]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()