EBERLEIN, GUSTAV A German sculptor born on July 14, 1847, at Spickershausen, Hanover. He studied at the Academy of Nuremberg and at Berlin under Blaeser, a follower of the classicist Rauch. After a visit to Rome in 1873 where he was attracted to the Baroque he joined the group of sculptors led by Reinhold Begas. In 1887 he became a member of the Berlin academy, in 1893 he was made professor and in 1897 he held an important exhibition of his work at the Berlin academy. His reputation rests chiefly upon his numerous pub lic monuments, such as those of the emperor William I. (Mann heim, Elberfeld and Altona) ; Bismarck (Krefeld) ; Richard Wag ner (Berlin) ; Goethe (Rome) ; Queen Luise (Tilsit). He also executed religious pieces such as the groups representing the life of Adam and Eve; and mythological pieces such as Pygmalion and Galatea. In 1898 he presented the Eberlein museum to MUnden in his native Hanover, which contains a representative collection of his work. In 1892 he published Aus eines Bildners Seelenleben, Plastik, Malerei and Poesie.
See A. Rosenberg, Eberlein (Bielefeld, 1903).