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of WĂĽrttemberg. After elementary school, in 1810, Ernst Mayer was apprenticed to
Antonio Isopi, the Italian sculptor working for the king. From him he learned the crafts of sculpture, casting and ornament as well as the Italian language, which was beneficial to him on his later sojourn in
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Back in Munich, Mayer continued restoring antique statues, but also created sculptures of his own, including the pediment figures for the
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Mayer died in Munich at the age of 47 on 21 January 1844 of a skull fracture after a fall on ice in front of his workshop. His successor at the Munich
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Mayer was the ninth child of Johann Ernst Mayer (1754–1812), a stocking manufacturer, who had become master of the household and garden supervisor at the
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marble bust of Mayer's teacher an employer Bertel
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253:Major works
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