Carl Conrad Albert Wolff was a German sculptor, and medallist.
Background
His father was the architect and sculptor Christian Philipp Wolff, who died when Albert was only six. At the age of seventeen, he followed in the footsteps of his older brother and moved to Berlin, where he found a position in the workshop of his father"s friend Christian Daniel Rauch and took night classes in anatomical drawing at a local art school.
Career
In 1844, he was sent to Carrara (where the best marble could be found) to produce statues for the terrace of Sanssouci. After two years in Italy, he returned to Berlin, assisting Rauch on a monument of Frederick the Great, but he also worked free-lance, producing a fountain with Countess Raczynska represented as Hygieia (in Posen) and a marble crucifix for a church in Kamenz. Shortly after, he opened his own workshop.
In addition to his larger works, he produced many smaller figures, statuettes and decorations that were widely copied.
Gallerie bedeutender Leute. (Gallery of Distinguished People) – Düsseldorf: Arnz, 1855.
Digitalized online by the University and State Library Düsseldorf.
Membership
He was named an honorary member of the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts in 1881.