Bernhard Afinger

Afinger was born in Nuremberg, where he studied old German sculptures. He was for a time a silversmith, and in 1840 began instruction under Christian Daniel Rauch at Berlin. He died in Berlin, aged 69.

Monument to Ernst Moritz Arndt, 1865, Bonn

In portrait medallions and works of a religious character he was particularly successful. There is an Arndt memorial by him at Bonn, a university memorial at Greifswald, and a statue of Newton in the National Museum, Pesth.

• Hannelore Hägele. "Afinger, Bernhard." In Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online, (accessed January 18, 2012; subscription required).

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Afinger, Bernhard" . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.

• Media related to Bernhard Afinger at Wikimedia Commons
• Entry in the Deutsche Fotothek