Person
Name	Elster, Robert (1883-1955)
	German sculptor and medalist. Elster hails from a family of modelers in Harzgerode. He first attended the Royal Art School in Berlin, then from 1906 on the educational establishment of the Royal Museum of Applied Arts. Elster then worked as a sculptor in Berlin, where he belonged to the ‘Ateliergemeinschaft Klosterstrasse’. Lit.: J. Witt, Vom Handwerk zur Kunst. Die Bildhauer Wilhelm und Carl Otto aus Harzgerode (2013) pp. 78-80.
Types	Medalist
Wikidata	https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130328593
Permalink	https://ikmk.smb.museum/ndp/person/8184
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Person

Name

Elster, Robert (1883-1955)

German sculptor and medalist.

Elster hails from a family of modelers in Harzgerode. He first attended the Royal Art School in Berlin, then from 1906 on the educational establishment of the Royal Museum of Applied Arts. Elster then worked as a sculptor in Berlin, where he belonged to the ‘Ateliergemeinschaft Klosterstrasse’.

Lit.: J. Witt, Vom Handwerk zur Kunst. Die Bildhauer Wilhelm und Carl Otto aus Harzgerode (2013) pp. 78-80.

Types

Medalist

Wikidata

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130328593