Jeremias Christensen Biography
Jeremias Christensen, born March 26, 1859 in Tingleff, was a German-Danish sculptor and medalist. Despite his physical difficulties, at the age of 18 he enrolled in Christian Carl Magnussen's carving school in Schleswig, completing the three-year apprenticeship with great carving skill. In 1883 he moved to the Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, where he modeled several reliefs under the influence of the works of Bertel Thorvaldsen. In 1887, thanks to a scholarship, he spent three years in Rome.
He later received another scholarship which allowed him to move to Berlin in 1891, where he decided to settle permanently. In 1894 he entered and won a competition for the sculpture of the Spree, to be installed in the vestibule of the magistrate's meeting room of the Red Town Hall in Berlin.
In 1898 he again won a competition for a monument to Duke Frederick VIII of Augustenburg in Düsternbrook Park in Kiel. However, during World War II, the monument was destroyed.
Christensen was a founding member of the Berlin Secession in 1898.
He died on May 14, 1908 in Charlottenburg.
