Background
Hugo Rheinhold was born in Oberlahnstein, Prussia, on March 26, 1853.
Hugo Rheinhold was born in Oberlahnstein, Prussia, on March 26, 1853.
His name is often misspelled Reinhold. He schooled in Koblenz before entering the merchant trade. When 21, Rheinhold sought success in the United States of America and became an import and export merchant, living in San Francisco (1874-1878) where he had headquarters for his business as well as in Hamburg, where he settled in 1879.
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He sold his successful business and moved to Berlin to study science and philosophy at the Friedrich-Wilhelms University. In 1886, he studied under the sculptors Ernst Herter and Max Kruse, before officially enrolling as a student at the Berlin Academy of Arts (1888-1892).
He died, aged 47, in Berlin.