Keyword: Ernst Friedrich August Rietschel

- - The bust is signed on the back: E. Rietschel. 1848 . Bust of Felix Mendelssohn , Ernst Friedrich August Rietschel German, 1848 Marble H: 23 1/2 x W: 15 1/2 x D: 10 in., Getty Museum, Los Angelos, California - Felix Mendelssohn, one of Germany’s most gifted composers, died tragically at the age of thirty-eight. A year later, Ernst Friedrich August Rietschel made this memorial bust for the Mendelssohn family. In imitation of ancien…