Elisabet Ney

Elisabet Ney

sculptor

BIRTHDAY January 26, 1833
BIRTH SIGN Aquarius
BIRTHPLACE Munster, Germany
AGE ? years old
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ABOUT ELISABET NEY

Frequently working artist with famous works that can be found in Texas, Washington D.C., Italy, England, and all over Germany. Some of those famous works includes sculptures of Lady Macbeth, Stephen F. Austin, and Sam Houston .

To her parents dismay, she became a sculptor in 1852 and attended the all-male Munich Academy of Art as the first female student to enroll there.

She made works of famous leaders such as King George V of Hannover, which appropriately remains in Hannover, and Otto von Bismarck , located in Berlin.

She married Edmund Montgomery on November 7th, 1863.

Another notable sculpture of her's is of war hero Giuseppe Garibaldi .