Karl Storck was a Hessian-born Romanian sculptor and art theorist, the most prominent Romanian sculptor of his time.
10 Facts About Karl Storck
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Karl Storck was born on in Hanau, Grand Duchy of Hesse.
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Karl Storck worked in a wide variety of sculptural media, ranging from wood to marble.
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Besides creating a variety of sculptural elements for several churches, Karl Storck designed and, with his team, sculpted the pediment for the main building of the University of Bucharest, damaged beyond repair in the Allied air strikes of April 4,1944, during World War II.
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Now at the heart of Romania's arts establishment, Karl Storck was one of the organizers of what became the young country's first periodic art exhibition.
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Karl Storck obtained for the Fine Arts Academy a collection of casts of famous sculptures from Paris, so that his Romanian students could study these examples; a few years later, in 1868 and 1875, he would visit Italy and obtain similar casts.
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Karl Storck moved his atelier to a larger space on what is Calea Victoriei.
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Karl Storck teamed up in 1868 with a group of Austrian ceramicists to found what Liliana Varban et.
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On January 27,1887, Karl Storck finally received the Romanian citizenship he had sought since 1883.
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Karl Storck is buried in the Evangelical Cemetery in Bucharest.