Legendary German sculptor - Johan Schadow.

So here we have the German mark, nominal - 10. The year of issue of this coin is 1989, Mint: Berlin, Germany. Total circulation – 39.200. The issue of the coin coincides with the 225th anniversary from the birth German sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow.

Gottfried Schadow, in full Johann Gottfried Schadow, he was born May 20, 1764, Berlin, Prussia (Germany) — died January 27, 1850, Berlin, German sculptor, regarded as the founder of the modern Berlin school of sculptors.

Schadow was trained under the court sculptor Jean-Pierre-Antoine Tassaert and in Rome in 1785 – 1787, where he studied under Antonio Canova. In 1788 he succeeded Tassaert as director of the Prussian royal school of sculpture in Berlin.

His first monumental work was the tombstone for Count Alexander von der Mark in 1790, in which he portrayed the nine-year-old count as a sleeping shepherd boy. His best-known work is the “Quadriga of Victory” in 1793, a statue of a chariot drawn by four horses, atop the Brandenburg Gate. Among his finest works is the group of the princesses Luise and Friederike of Prussia in 1797.