With her monograph on the sculptor Theodor Kalide (1801-1863), Justine Nagler fills a sensitive gap in Berlin's art historical writing. For the first time, a complete catalog of works and a comprehensive analysis of his oeuvre are available. The biography, free from legends, exemplifies the circumstances of success and failure of a brilliant artist. As a student of Schadow and Rauch, the promising Kalide developed a highly individual desire for innovation that thrilled open-minded art connoisseurs, yet remained incomprehensible to some contemporaries. With exceptional works like the monumental "Peace Vase" for Friedrich Wilhelm III., which demonstrates his fascination with Schinkel, he broke through traditional genre boundaries. In his own studio at Pariser Platz, Kalide completed statues and monuments for his Silesian homeland—successes that he cherished in memory.