page_title: August Kraus
section_title: Selected major works
hierarchical_section_title: August Kraus / Selected major works
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Denkmalgruppe (Detail) zum Brandenburger Markgrafen Heinrich das Kind in der ehemaligen Berliner Siegesallee. Bildhauer August Kraus, das Monument wurde am 22. März 1900 enthüllt. Für den knabenhaft gestalteten, melancholisch niederblickenden Markgrafen diente dem Bildhauer Kraus der 13jährige französische Cellist Paul Bazelaire als Modell, der zur Zeit der Arbeiten gerade in Berlin zu Gast war. Die Aufnahme des letzten und für die märkische Geschichte völlig unbedeutenden Askaniers Heinrich II. in die Siegesallee war umstritten und letztlich lediglich der Tatsache geschuldet, dass die Symmetrie mit je 16 Gruppen zu beiden Seiten des Monumentalboulevards gewahrt werden sollte. English: Central statue from the monument group in the former Siegesallee in Berlin commemorating Margrave Henry II of Brandenburg, called "Heinrich das Kind" (German for "Henry the Child"). Sculptor August Kraus. The sculpture was unveiled on 22 March 1900. The facial features and melancholy gaze of Henry the Child were derived from the 13-year-old French musical prodigy Paul Bazelaire, who was visiting Berlin at that time. The inclusion in the Siegesallee of the last Ascanian ruler Henry II, who was of virtually no significance for the history of Brandenburg, was controversial and ultimately based solely on the need to maintain symmetry, with 16 monument groups on each side of the boulevard.
context_page_description: August Friedrich Johann Kraus was a German sculptor.
context_section_description: 1898: Monument to the SMS Iltis, a gunboat which sank in a storm off the coast of Shantung; located along The Bund in the Shanghai International Settlement. It was destroyed near the end of the World War I.
  1900-1901: Figures in the Siegesallee, Berlin. Kraus was the youngest sculptor to work on the project. He was closely assisted and supervised by Reinhold Begas and produced two sets of figures:
  Group 9, consisting of Henry II, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal (also known as "Henry the Child") in the central position, flanked by side figures of Wartislaw IV, Duke of Pomerania and Wedigo von Plotho, a 14th Century knight, for which his friend Heinrich Zille was the model.
  Group 32, with Wilhelm I as the central figure, flanked by Helmut von Moltke and Otto von Bismarck. There is some disagreement over the extent of Begas' contributions to this group.
  1910: Statue of Heinrich Lanz, on the premises of Heinrich Lanz AG in Mannheim.
  1926-28: "Knabe mit Ziege" (Boy with a Goat), in the Savignyplatz, Berlin.
  1928: "Gefallenen-Denkmal" (Memorial to the Fallen), in the Hohenzollernpark in Anklam.
  1929: The tomb of Heinrich Zille, Südwestkirchhof Stahnsdorf.
caption: Henry the Child; from the Siegesallee (1900)
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