# Gottfried Schadow artist context and auction value notes

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## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1764-05-20
- Death date: 1850-01-27
- Nationality: German
- Movements: German Neoclassicism
- Common media: Sculpture, Drawing

## Portrait

![Gottfried Schadow](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/HermannBiow.JohannGottfriedSchadow.Daguerreotypie.1846.P1162289.jpg/1280px-HermannBiow.JohannGottfriedSchadow.Daguerreotypie.1846.P1162289.jpg)
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Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HermannBiow.JohannGottfriedSchadow.Daguerreotypie.1846.P1162289.jpg

## About Gottfried Schadow

Johann Gottfried Schadow (1764–1850) was a German sculptor and draftsman whose identity is recorded consistently across Getty ULAN, VIAF, and Wikidata. The available biographical material places him among the leading figures of German Neoclassicism and credits him with founding the Berlin School of Sculpture. His best-known projects include the Quadriga for the Brandenburg Gate, the Princesses Group, the tomb of Count Alexander von der Mark, and monuments to Blücher and Luther. These works connect his name with monumental and commemorative sculpture as well as drawing. Collectors may encounter Schadow through drawings, sculptural objects, documentary material related to monuments, or later objects carrying his name. Accurate authority matching is particularly important because public records use both “Johann Gottfried Schadow” and shorter forms such as “Gottfried Schadow.”

## Common works and media

Schadow is most strongly associated in the collected sources with sculpture and drawing. Named works include monumental and commemorative projects such as the Brandenburg Gate Quadriga, the Princesses Group, the tomb of Count Alexander von der Mark, and monuments to Blücher and Luther. In appraisal contexts, documentary drawings or monument-related objects should be described by their actual medium, date, and authorship status rather than treated automatically as equivalent to a finished monument or an original lifetime sculpture.

## Market and appraisal context

The collected evidence establishes Schadow primarily as a sculptor and draftsman, but it does not include individual auction-house lot essays, condition reports, or realized-price histories. Appraisal therefore begins with object type and attribution: an original drawing, a sculpture connected with a documented design, and a later reproduction are not equivalent. Date, dimensions, materials, inscriptions, casting or edition information, condition, provenance, and the relationship to known projects should be checked against specialist references and comparable public sales. Auction results should be treated as comparables rather than price promises; this source pack is too limited to support artist-specific market-trend claims.

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## Sources

- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500020339
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/27170885/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q51989
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Gottfried_Schadow
- Wikipedia: https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Gottfried_Schadow
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/gottfried-schadow/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HermannBiow.JohannGottfriedSchadow.Daguerreotypie.1846.P1162289.jpg