the couple had three daughters and one son. Mayer died in Munich at the age of 47 on 21 January 1844 of a skull fracture after a fall on ice in front of his workshop. His successor at the Munich Polytechnic was his pupil Johann Halbig. Major works (see picture gallery) three large and six small figures in the Glyptothek pediment marble bust of Mayer's teacher an employer Bertel Thorvaldsen two angels at the bottom of Klenze'/Thorvaldsen's de Beauharmais-tomb Thukydides and Homer Heine-Memorial in Würzburg 8 marble candelabra and seats and a marble table at the Walhalla Picture Gallery Further reading Söltl, Johann Michael: Der Bildhauer Professor Ernst Mayer in Die bildende Kunst in München, München 1842, S. 469-471 (in German) (containing the wrong birth year) Mayer, Ernst Theodor: Bebildertes Werkverzeichnis des Bildhauers Ernst Mayer (1796–1844), München 2006, Festschrift 2007 (in German) References German sculptors German male sculptors 1844 deaths People from Ludwigsburg 1796 births Classicism