August von Kreling (May 23, 1818 – April 23, 1876) was a German sculptor born in Osnabrück. He studied with Peter von Cornelius, and in 1853 became director of the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg. He became a member of the Munich Academy in 1876, and died in Nuremberg in that same year. Commissions His best-known commission in the United States was the Tyler Davidson Fountain, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1871 References External links 1818 births 1876 deaths German male sculptors Academic staff of the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg 19th-century German sculptors Writers from Osnabrück 19th-century German male artists