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Rudolph Thiem

Rudolph Thiem (1859-1928) was a designer, sculptor, and ornamental woodcarver. Born in Berlin in 1857, he studied modeling and design at the School of Applied Arts, an institute within the German Museum of Applied Arts in Berlin. After leaving the School of Applied Arts, he served as modeling assistant for Dresden sculptor Hermann Hultzsch. He worked on Hultzsch's over life size bronze statue of Albrecht the Spirited, completed in 1876. Thiem emigrated to New Orleans in 1881, where he established a sculptor's studio in collaboration with the founder Paul Riess, also originally from Berlin.