TIECK, CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH, a famous sculptor of Germany, was the brother of the distinguished writer Ludwig Tieck, and was born at Berlin on the 14th of August 1776. He studied successively under Schadow in Germany and David in Paris, and afterward returned to Berlin in 1801, and went subsequently to Weimar, where he found a warm friend in the poet Goethe. Tieck executed busts of Goethe, Voss, and Wolff, during his residence at Weimar, as well as of many noblemen and princes resident in the neighbourhood. Having joined his brother Ludwig on his journey to Italy in 1805, he was fortunate enough to make the friendship of Madame de Staël, and of the Crown-prince Ludwig of Bavaria. He made statues of Madame de Staël and her friends, as well as executing busts of Ludwig, Jacobi, Schelling, Ludwig Tieck, Lessing, Erasmus, Grotius, Herder, Wallenstein, &c., for the Valhalla. While on a second visit to Italy in 1812, he had the good fortune to make the friendship of Rauch, which lasted unbroken till Tieck's death. On his return to Germany in 1819, he set up his studio in Berlin, where he became a prominent agent in all the artistic undertakings of the next thirty years. He was employed on the theatre-royal, the cathedral in Berlin, and the royal museum, as well as on many other pieces of statuesque sculpture, where he had ample scope to satisfy the requirements of his genius on statues of memorial art. He died on the 14th of June 1841. Kiss, the sculptor of the "Amazon," was a pupil of Tieck's.