Background
In 1780 he was appointed the official decorator for the Duke of Württemberg'sWurttemberg's rococo palace in Stuttgart. In 1783 he went to Paris to study with Augustin Pajou, and then in 1785 moved to Rome for five years, where he studied with the neoclassicist sculptor Antonio Canova. The rest of his life was spent working and teaching in Stuttgart at the Stuttgart Academy. Dannecker is best known for his Ariadne (1806) and his portrait busts of Schiller, Metternich, and Gluck. He died in Stuttgart on Dec. 8, 1841.