DANNECKER, JOHANN HEINRICH VON 1841), German sculptor, was born at Stuttgart, on Oct. 15,1758, and died there on Dec. 8,184i. His father was employed in the stables of the duke of WUrttemberg. The boy was entered in the military school at the age of 13, but after two years he was allowed to follow his taste for art. The duke made him sculptor to the palace (178o), and employed him on child angels and carya tids for the decoration of the reception rooms. In 1783 he left for Paris with Scheffauer, and placed himself under Pajou; in 1785 he went to Rome, where he worked for five years. Goethe and Herder were then in Rome, and became his friends, as well as Canova, who was the hero of the day, and who had undoubtedly a great and powerful influence on his style. The marble statues of Ceres and Bacchus (in the Schloss at Stuttgart) were done at this time. On his return to Stuttgart, which he never afterwards quitted, except for short trips to Paris, Vienna and Zurich, the double influence of his admiration for Canova and his study of the antique is apparent in his works. The Ariadne (1806), in the Bethmann museum, Frankfurt, is the most popular of his works. Many of the illustrious persons of the time were modelled by him, among others, Lavater, Metternich, Countess Stephanie of Baden and General Benckendorff. Of the three portrait busts of Schiller the first in date (1797) is life-size, and is at Weimar; the second, modelled in colossal size, is in the Stuttgart museum; the third was made for the then Crown Prince Louis of Bavaria. Dannecker was director of the Gallery of Stuttgart, and received many aca demic and other distinctions.