Andreas Schlueter

Andreas Schlüter (1659–1714) was a German Baroque sculptor and architect. After work for John III Sobieski's Wilanów Palace, he was invited to Berlin in 1694 as court sculptor to Elector Frederick III, and in 1696 toured Italy studying its masters.

Thereafter he decorated the Zeughaus armory with his dying warriors and, as court architect, reshaped the Berlin City Palace. He designed the Amber Room (1701–1709) and cast the equestrian statue of the Great Elector in 1708. In 1713 he joined Tsar Peter the Great in Saint Petersburg, where he died the next year.