The Berlin Academy and the Roman Transition Berlin, 1802. A child is born into a lineage of sculptors, the nephew of Johann Gottfried Schadow. By 1815, the halls of the Prussian Academy of Arts become his training ground. He moves through the studio of his uncle as a pupil and assistant, absorbing the technical rigors of the craft between 1817 and 1822. The trajectory shifts with a scholarship to Rome. Rome becomes the permanent stage…