RAUCH, Christian Daniel
(b. 1777, Arolsen, d. 1857, Dresden)

Blücher, Victor of Waterloo

1824
Bronze
Unter den Linden, Berlin

Rauch set his studio permanently in Berlin in 1819. From then on he produced a range of major monuments both in Berlin, and throughout Germany.

Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Fürst (Prince) von Wahlstatt (1742-1819), Graf (Count), later elevated to Fürst (Prince) von Wahlstatt, was a Prussian Generalfeldmarschall who led his army against Napoleon I at the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig in 1813 and at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 with the Duke of Wellington.