:вЂЉ41Д«andel found himself receiving little support or understanding from the new king, so he moved to Berlin in 1834, following his former employer, Rauch, who was working on a huge equestrian statue of Frederick the Great. Bandel also had personal problems with some of his colleagues and the king. However, he felt the Neoclassical design to be alien to Germany and thus inappropriate for a national memorial. Bandel contributed to the work and made the statue of Franz von Sickingen. Maximilian's successor, Ludwig I, asked Leo von Klenze to design the Walhalla memorial near Regensburg between 18. In 1832, he and Hans Ferdinand Massmann founded the local Gymnastics Society. He also found employment with Christian Daniel Rauch at the Glyptothek, where he remained until 1834. :вЂЉ41 After his return to Germany, he made the figurine on the gable of the Staatliche Antikensammlungen, following a design by his teacher Johann Nepomuk Haller. His closest associates were Ludwig Schwanthaler and Heinrich Max Imhof. While in Rome he met Bertel Thorvaldsen and several members of the Nazarene movement, but was unimpressed by them. With a final stipendium from the king, he was able to study and work in Italy from 1825 to 1827.

They were to have a total of seven children (five sons, two daughters). In 1822/23, Bandel was at Nuremberg, working on completing the figures on the Gothic SchГ¶ner Brunnen While there, he met Karoline von Kohlhagen, whom he married in 1827. In 1819/20, he first worked on drafts for a statue of Arminius. There, he studied under Moritz Kellerhoven, Wilhelm von Kobell and others. Later that year, he entered the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, first as a painter but soon switched to sculpting. In 1820, he refused a job offer as an assistant to the architect Leo von Klenze, as he was not amenable to Bandel's preference for the Gothic style. The following year, he was given a job as a draftsman at the Hofbauamt (the office responsible for the construction and maintenance of the royal buildings).Д«ust of King Maximilian I (1826) Career as an artist His father's death in 1818 and the resulting financial stress almost forced him to give up his interest in art, but through his father's connections with the royal family, he was able to arrange a generous grant from King Maximilian I. While there, he met the architect Karl von Fischer and became his student. Two years later, he went to Munich to apply for a position with the Royal Bavarian Forestry Office. At fourteen, Ernst von Bandel began to take drawing lessons at the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg, with the engraver Albert Christoph Reindel.

After Ansbach became Bavarian in 1806, Ernst's father worked for the new government and became the president of the local appellate court. His childhood was dominated by political events (the French occupation in 18 War of Liberation) which left him a lifelong patriot. His father, Georg Carl von Bandel, was a Prussian civil servant ( Regierungsdirektor).

Arminius statue