"August Karl Eduard Kiss (October 11, 1802 – March 24, 1865) was a German sculptor.
Kiss was born in Paprotzan (now Paprocany, part of Tychy in Poland) ...
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in Prussian Silesia. He studied at the Prussian Academy of Arts under Christian Rauch, Christian Friedrich Tieck, and Karl Friedrich Schinkel. His work was mostly executed in the Neo-Classical style and consisted largely of portraits and mythological and allegorical subjects. He died in Berlin.
Kiss was responsible for two monuments in Breslau: On the west part of the Ring, stood a bronze equestrian statue of Frederick The Great (1842), and another equestrian statue of Prussian King Frederick Wilhelm III (1862)." - (en.wikipedia.org 05.11.2019)
