Karl Storck

Statue of Carol Davila in front of the Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy. Karl Storck (1826–1887) was a Hessian-born Romanian sculptor and art theorist, the most prominent Romanian sculptor of his time. His sons Carol Storck (1854–1926) and Frederic Storck (1872–1924), were also noted artists.

Biography Karl Storck was born on in Hanau, Grand Duchy of Hesse. Having been trained and working for a time as an engraver, he became sculptor only later. he traveled to Paris to study Two years later, he took a different position in Bucharest with Georg Fles, originally from Hamburg-Altona. Soon becoming an associate in Fles's firm, he created several sculptures in gypsum for the Military Hospital in Bucharest. but the akroteria survive in the collection of the Frederic and Cecilia Cuțescu-Storck Art Museum he and his family spent the years 1856–1857 in Vienna and in Munich where he trained as sculptor However, he saw his economic prospects as being better in Bucharest. That same year, he also participated in the decoration of (now the ) including a medallion portrait of Irinei Suțu.

Now at the heart of Romania's arts establishment, Storck was one of the organizers of what became the young country's first periodic art exhibition. He also obtained for the Fine Arts Academy a collection of casts of famous sculptures from Paris, so that his Romanian students could study these examples; Also for that Exposition, he sculpted portraits in salt of Napoleon III and Carol I. sold four years later to Anton Weigand. completed 1890); the staircase of honor, columns, and the balustrade of the balcony of the Romanian Athenaeum (commissioned 1883, ).

Another major work of Storck's later years is completely destroyed: monuments completed in 1885 in Rahova and to commemorate victory in the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878), considered by Romanians to be their War of Independence, were destroyed by advancing Bulgarian troops during World War I.

On January 27, 1887, Storck finally received the Romanian citizenship he had sought since 1883. However, he died barely two months later, on March 30, 1887. He is buried in the Evangelical Cemetery in Bucharest.

Notable students

Dimitrie Paciurea George Julian Zolnay

List of works Sculptures and monuments Domniţa Bălaşa, Spătarul Mihail Cantacuzino Statue of Carol Davila Minerva încununând artele și știința The iconostasis of Viforata Monastery (15th century) Bas-reliefs on the facade of the University of Bucharest (destroyed by the Allied bombing of Bucharest in World War II) Facade and interior of the Portraits Bust of Grigore III Ghica of Moldavia, in Iași Busts of Theodor Aman, Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Mihail Kogălniceanu, C. A. Rosetti, Elena Cuza