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Encke, Erdmann
(b Berlin, 26 Jan 1843; d Neubabelsberg, 7 July 1896). German sculptor. He studied (1860–65) at the Akademie in Berlin under Albert Wolff, and he first exhibited in 1864 at the Akademie exhibition. In 1866 he won the competition for a design for a monument to Jahn, the Father of Gymnastics for the Volkspark Hasenheide in Berlin, the first open space for gymnastics established by Jahn in 1811; Encke’s sculpture was unveiled in 1872. After establishing his own studio in Berlin, Encke travelled to Italy. From 1882 he taught at the Akademie in Berlin, and he regularly showed at the Akademie exhibitions until 1890. Among Berlin sculptors he remained one of the most faithful to the earlier 19th-century tradition established by Christian Daniel Rauch.
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