Sculptor. He was a Prussian sculptor of the 19th century. His work was mostly executed in the Neo-Classical style and consisted largely of portraits and mythological and allegorical subjects. Born Auguste Karl Eduard Kiss, he studied sculpture at the Prussian Academy of Arts. He collaborated with German architect Friedrich Eisenlohr between 1850 and 1852 to create the red-brick Prussian monument at the Old Cemetery in Karlsruhe, which was unveiled on July 23, 1852 and is still standing in the 21st century. He was known for his monumental bronzes including a warrior on a horse, "Saint George and the Dragon," in the heart of the city of Berlin. He created in 1847 the seven sculptures located on the western pediment of the Neues Museum in Berlin. The museum opened in 1855. The museum was nearly destroyed with the Allied Forces bombing of Berlin during the end of World War II. After the war, the museum was located in the Soviet-occupied part of Berlin and was left decaying for a long period of time. With the fall of the Berlin Wall, the museum received an award-winning restoration by October of 2009. Located atop the front façade of St. Michael's Church in Berlin is his creation, the statue "Archangel Michael." Near the end of World War II, the church received heavy bombings by the Royal Air Force. In the 1950s a restoration of the church was done and a replica of Kiss' statue of the Archangel Michael was made to replace the heavily damaged one. In Breslau, the pre-1945 German name of Wroclaw, Poland, he created two sculptures: a bronze equestrian statue of Frederick the Great in 1842 and another equestrian statue of Prussian King Frederick Wilhelm II in 1862. In the United States, the Philadelphia Museum of Art owns a 1929 replica of his over 11-foot-tall statue called "The Mounted Amazon Attacked by a Panther," which was originally created in 1839 and is located at the National Museum in Berlin. Kiss exhibited his bronze statue "The Amazonian on Horseback" at the Crystal Pavilion Exhibition in London in 1861, placing first prize in that category. In the 21st century, the piece was presented at auction for $30,000. For his talents, he was made an honorary citizen of Berlin.